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BlackTagBags<\/a><\/strong> basically fell off the back of a truck back in 1998. I’d been\u00a0stitching up make-like-sample projects at WAVE Products<\/a><\/strong> for six or seven years, and then I embarked on a teaching journey (mostly English and photography). Steve and Helen sent me off with a Consew 256, a 6′ x 10′ table, and a half-baked work ethic. BlackTagBags<\/a><\/strong> is a done-is-better-than-perfect shop for sure!<\/p>\n

With so many of my janky bags out there, it\u2019s often difficult to remember specifics \u2014 each has a story to tell and a flaw to hide. And those reckless repairs? Shameful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BlackTagBags basically fell off the back of a truck back in 1998. I’d been\u00a0stitching up make-like-sample projects at WAVE Products for six or seven years, and then I embarked on a teaching journey (mostly English and photography). Steve and Helen sent me off with a Consew 256, a 6′ x 10′ table, and a half-baked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktagbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}