Bags & Purses

Quirky cotton bags and purses, sturdy canvas shoppers and eco-conscious jute totes.

Tote bag made of heavyweight unbleached cotton canvas with mid-length black webbing handles. The bag is printed with a black design adapted from an original print of a bumble bee with a striped body and paneled wings, and a quote from Shakespeare play, Hamlet (To be or not to be?). In a ring around the bee and the quote are flowers and leaves. Outside this main design are a number of smaller bees flying in different directions.
Unbleached jute tote bag with matching handles and printed in black with a motif. The motif is based on a black print and is of a field mouse with a curly tale sitting up surrounded by ears of corn. The mouse is nibbling on one of the ears of corn. A quote from Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream (though she be but little, she is fierce) is printed amid the corn. The lettering is handdrawn and has curly tales coming off some of the letters.
Unbleached jute bag with unbleached cotton handles printed with a design based on an original print in black. The design features a simplified image of the Globe Theatre with the frame on view. the theatre is surrounded by stars and a quote from Shakespeare play, As You Like It is above and below the theatre (I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it).
A cotton book bag for Shakespeare's Globe. The bag is midnight blue with mid-length matching handles. Printed on the bag in white is a design consisting of a white circle (to represent the full moon) surrounded by stylised white leaves and stars. Across the face of the moon is a quote from Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream (What fools these mortals be!) in midnight blue. The lettering is slim capitals.
Sturdy sage green tote bag with a quote from Shakespeare play As You Like It (all the world's a stage) printed in white. The lettering is in a hand-drawn scribbled style to represent woodgrain and several of the letters have little lime green leaves growing out from them. The title of the play is printed in lime green under the quote. The bag has white handles.
Red or black cotton bag with a bold, graphic print in white featuring title and details from Shakespeare's Globe theatre
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Black cotton bag with black mid-length handles. The black is printed with ivy leaves in greys, a void in the ivy leaves reveals a human skull in black. Printed on the forehead of the skull is the opening lines from the To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy in Shakespeare play, Hamlet in greys.
Black cotton bag with mid-length black handles printed with a quote from Shakespeare play, Macbeth (Something wicked this way comes). The lettering is bold serifed capital letters which are slightly distressed printed in white, except for 'WICKED) which is printed in orange. The 'I' of wicked is replaced by a dagger.
Black cotton bag with mid-length black handles. The bag is printed with a realistic blood spatter in red which drips down from the top to the bottom. Across the blood, printed in white hand-drawn capital letters is a quote from Shakespeare play, Macbeth (Out, damned spot! Out, I say!) The title of the play is printed in white beneath the quote.
White cotton bag with sage green mid-length cotton handles with a design based on Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing. The design is made up of leaves in black silhouette, largely covered by bramble and rose leaves in muted greens. interspersed with the leaves are geranium, violet and rose flowers in muted lilacs. There is the skull of a bird peaking out of the leaves on the right side. Over the floral design is printed in bold white san serif capital letters, the title of the play and a quote.
Black cotton bag with red mid-length handles. The bag is printed with a quote from Shakespeare play, The Tempest (Hell is empty and all the devils are here) in bold, san serif, capital letters. Surrounding the quote is a cloud of grey bats flying out as if from hell.
Romeo and Juliet bag from Shakespeare's Globe with a quote (Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs)
Black cotton bag with black mid-length handles printed with a quote from Shakespeare play, The Comedy of Errors (Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?) The letters are printed in bold white san serif capital letters using an expanding dye which gives a sprayed graffiti look. The title of the play is printed in bright blue under the quote.
Sage green cotton zipped purse with a quote from Shakespeare play, As You Like It (all the world's a stage) printed in white. The lettering is hand-drawn in a scribbled style and several of the letters have little lime green leaves 'growing' from them. The title of the play is printed in lime green up the right hand side of the quote.
Rectangular purse made from unbleached cotton with a black zip closure. The purse is printed with a design adapted from an original print in black, a bumble bee and a quote from Shakespeare play, Hamlet (to be or not to be) is surrounded by a ring of flowers and leaves. Smaller bees surround the central image, flying in different directions.
Rectangular white cotton purse with a sage green zip fastening, printed with a design celebrating Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing. The design features a grouping of leaves in black silhouette covered by blackberry and rose leaves in a muted greens and geranium, violet and rose flowers in muted lilacs. On the right of the design is a crow's skull peaking out from the leaves. The design in overprinted with the title of the play and a quote (Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps) in white.
Black cotton bag with a gusset and a red zip. The bag is printed in a light grey with a quote from Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet (I am a pretty piece of flesh). The lettering is bold, with 'pretty' and 'flesh' in capitals Under the quote is the title of the play printed in red.