The Missing Link

At last we have a prototype laptop bag in the making. It hasn't been easy due to a miscommunication with the guy making the batik stamps for the front panel. Poor Vida has been going to Tema every day (a 45 minute journey) for the past eight days to try to get the stamps made which have now taken three times longer than promised and still are not ready due to broken equipment.

To cut a long story, it turns out that if the stamp maker had made the simple suggestion to reduce the size of the graphic by only a few inches (which would have been acceptable) he could easily have done the job on a different machine two weeks ago!

So he was the missing link. Vida has worked amazingly hard to get the batik done. Kwabena has had a prototype bag design ready for a week and is raring to go. We now have only one good front panel that Vida spent the whole day painstakingly painting by hand rather than using a stamp. So one sample bag will be ready instead of the twelve I wanted to take to the US.

On the plus side the colors which were always a worry have come out quite well. Pictures of the finished bag will be posted when it is completed.


All the batiks ready to make the first bag