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Story of

PIAUI bags & cases

Navy Blue

2016

November

🤔

It all started with a simple problem...

Hard to find a suitable pencil case for my school needs. I went to several shops in Riga looking for my "artistic pen holder" And all I found was this.

2016

After a bitter disappointment,

December

😎

I took my grandmothers sewing machine and decided that I'm going to create my own!

Although I had some sewing background (restoring an old canapé) this was not a simple task because of all the detailing.

2017

January

😌

I made several tryouts

I made a few sketches and several tryouts - it came out looking like this... not great, not terrible.

The decision was to take it to a more experienced sewer!

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Bordeaux red

2017

March

😃

This was the result!

An easy to use, premium pencil case for a student.

June

2017

🤗

it couldn't have stopped here, right?

I gathered a few friends, who thought it was possible to sell this. We took participation in some fairs and people liked it, we sold almost everyone we got.

Dark Olive Green

We even made a crowdfunding campaign

that on the other side wasn't too successful. We had made no plans on marketing.

July

2018

🤕

Sadly, at this point, we all got carried away by our universities - the project stopped.

Until now!

​The project is moving forwards slowly, but steady.

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Take a Walk food boxes

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time to open new horizons

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