Ailurobibliophile Handprinted Messenger or Tote Bag

I imprint the Ailurobibliophile design using flocked heat transfer vinyl onto both a cotton canvas messenger bag or tote. Messenger bag style is 10” x 12” x 4” with an adjustable strap and a flap closing over the front of the bag. Extra large heavy canvas tote is 14″ x 17″ x 4″ with a wide strap with a pocket on the front.

On both styles you can pet fuzzy Basil fur too! I’m not kidding. When I experimented with heat transfer vinyl last year I discovered flocked HTV which, like any flocked fabric or other material, has a velour-type surface. Here is a closeup…

Closeup of flocked heat transfer vinyl.

Messenger bag style

Ailurobibliophile messenger bag style.

Messenger bag style is 10” x 12” x 4” with an adjustable strap and a flap closing over the front of the bag.

Extra-large tote bag with front pocket

Ailurobibliophile extra-large tote bag style with front pocket.

Extra large heavy canvas tote is 14″ x 17″ x 4″ with a wide strap with a pocket on the front.

About the artwork

I worked out this design in late 2017 and had two variations on the typeface. I preferred the bolder typeface but ended up using the lighter typeface because I began with a stencil and it worked far better for that. But not well enough because I ended up having a screen made to screen print the bags instead of stenciling. I sent the art I’d been working with and after printing bags and prints I decided I really wanted to use the heavier typeface after all, and I like it much better!

About that word, “Ailurobibliophile”. Yes, I made it up. It popped up in my design consciousness about a decade ago when I was photographing my cats in the cat book library, on the books, in the books, napping, bathing, posing, and I held it there until I had such time to really work it out. Finally, I can let the world know about “ailurobibliophiles”!

What does it mean? Just what it says. My initial idea was just “lover of cats and books”. Then I photographed Basil August 2017…

Basil Will Be Reading

…and knew the time had come. This was why it was to be introduced last September, back-to-school, that sort of thing.

As with all my designs, this one is based on a real cat, a cat you know, a cat just being a cat.

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