HAPPY NEW YEAR

2024 has landed. I’m already back in the Studio, cutting and prepping for the first batch of Attachés and Diplomats!

Thanks for all your incredible support in 2023. There were hurdles. Machine purchases that went wrong. Cash flow challenges - where there wasn’t any(!) Massive home DIY projects that drained my energy and focus. Much of the usual stuff we all have going on in life, and then getting knocked off my bike by a car…but nothing made me want to give up. Check my resolve? Yes, but never that caused me to ditch it. I still believe in it. I still love it. I still want it. “So bad it’s like acid in my mouth, man” (Thanks Bodie 😉)
To create. To conceive. Cross Functional Life-style Carry Gear. That’s what I’m here for, and I hope what you’re here for too! The year ahead will be another one with the dial turned to 11 as I try to take The Ancoats Bag Company forward. I can’t wait to see what unfolds as the year goes on, but without your support and love for the Ancoats gear, I’d be going nowhere.


Stay Loose. Carry Humble. Be Kind.

Love, Peace and Sewing Machine Grease
John