Cork leather offers a sustainable alternative to real leather. As the name suggest, the material is made from the bark of cork oaks. The bark of the tree can be harvested every seven years without the need to cut it down.
Cork leather is durable and ages well like leather, also it has the same uniqueness to it. Much like no two animal hides are the same, no two pieces of cork leather are the same either.
Other benefits to cork leather are that it is water resistant and it is a very light weighted material, thus making it well suited for a laptop bag.
The laptop bag has a main compartment, which is closed off by the zipper on the front of the bag and three other compartments. Two of these compartments are inside the bag, one of these compartments is lined with an extra layer of stuffing, making it suitable for a 12 to 13 inch laptop.
There is a third compartment on the backside of the bag. This compartment is also closed off with a zipper and it is carried against your body, thus making it a secure place to keep, for example, travel documents in.
To make more bags to sell, I made patterns that are easy to trace. The patterns are laser cut from 3 mm thick MDF.
