Natural Travel Bag - Turmeric

• The colour does the talking. A warm turmeric orange frames panels of undyed cream cotton, so it looks bright against a plain coat and calm against a summer shirt.
• A rounded flap folds over the front, with two small metal D-rings on cream cotton tabs. They give you something to clip a key or a small charm to.
• A zip runs along the side with a metal pull, so a ticket or a card can be reached without lifting the flap.
• The strap is plain cream cotton webbing with metal fittings, and its length can be changed, so the bag can sit at the hip or higher against your side.
• It is light, at 240 g, so you tend to forget you are wearing it.

Inside the bag are two pockets, each closed with a zip. That is enough to keep small things apart: papers in one, loose items in the other. It is a bag for essentials rather than a full wash bag, so think passport, phone, a lip balm, a few coins.

The bag is made of cotton, a soft, breathable fabric with a matte, slightly textured surface that you can see in the cream panels. It is made in India, and the cotton sits comfortably against clothing without the shine of synthetic fabric. The orange and cream pairing keeps the whole thing simple and easy to match with what you already own.

It suits travel days, festival weekends, city wandering and any outing where a rucksack feels like too much. Worn across the body, it stays in front of you where you can see it, which is a small comfort in a crowd. For an evening out it holds the few things you actually need.

Cotton is not waterproof, so keep it out of heavy rain and let it dry fully if it gets damp. Spot-clean with a damp cloth and mild soap, and let it air-dry. Machine washing can wear the fabric and the zips, so we would avoid it.

The bag is 18 cm wide and 21 cm high, roughly the size of a small paperback standing upright. The strap is 2.5 cm wide and adjustable in length. The bag weighs 240 g.

It makes a useful present for a frequent traveller, a student heading off for the summer, or anyone who likes to go out with just the essentials.