 love my leather goods. Yeah it's fair to say that most of the time I love them on boots because obviously this is a boot channel. But what about leather bags? Now they're something right? Well if you like leather bags, take a look at this. How do you like this? Keep watching. G'day! Welcome to my channel Bootlossophy and if we haven't met before my name is Tech. As always I'd like to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the lands that I live and work on and I acknowledge the Wajik people of the Nungar nation. Now Bootlossophy if you know me is a boot review channel and yes I've done a few reviews about gear that you might wear with boots but more often than not it's very rare that I review bags. I don't know why. In fact it was pointed out to me that I've only ever reviewed three bags on this channel and whether it's by coincidence or indeed because I like them so much the only three bags I've ever reviewed and I'll put the links to the reviews in the description below. They're all from Kravah which is the maker of this bag. Now I'll tell you a bit about Kravah but before I do that I just want to let you know that there is a link to their website below. It's an Indonesian bag maker and if you look down below there's also a 10% discount code. Now it will only be live until the 31st of December this year that's 2023. After that I'll be removing that code so it's only available for the rest of this year so if you if you like the looks of this bag or in fact any other bag within Kravah you can get it a 10% discount using the code down below so don't be tardy. Now before I start looking at the bag I'll tell you a little bit about Kravah. It was founded by Yogi Bhaskara. Now here is an intelligent man. I've spoken to him over the years last couple of years since I bought my very first bag from him and we've communicated and I can tell you he's a very intelligent erudite man. Communications with him in Indonesia is not a problem. He studied architecture and you can see where some of his thinking in design comes into the making of his bags from architecture but he's also studied political science and eventually ended up doing finance in the Netherlands. So you know Yogi is a gifted creative businessman. Now Kravah he started that company in Indonesia. Yogi is from Jakarta and I'm not a hundred percent sure where Kravah is located. I think it's in Jakarta but it might actually be in Bandung which is very nearby which of course you will know is the centre of Indonesian boot-making. Now Yogi started Kravah in 2013 because he'd been very interested in bags but he knew that if he was going to start something and making bags with them he really wanted them to be of top quality. So he put together his formula for success if you like. He focused on materials that it had to be top quality materials but not only that and you know I like this. He wanted those materials to be locally sourced. So I'm a big fan of small carbon footprints and I'm also a big fan of supporting local industry. So Yogi sort of put it in the bag right there in the bag. But apart from the quality of materials he also wanted the quality of construction and he knew that the only way he could control that is to make the bags himself. So instead of subcontracting to a leather manufacturer of which I understand there are plenty in Indonesia he started his own workshop and so he could have not just design influence over the bags but actually influence over the quality. And of course to to start it all off he had to find the right leather and he has a friend called Max whom apparently he pestered until they were able to experiment and make the type of quality leather that Yogi was was happy with. And this is from that leather. It is a veg tan leather. In fact it is pit tanned and if you know your leathers most leathers nowadays are chrome tanned. Some of them might be re-tanned in vegetable liquors but this is actually old-fashioned pit tanned veg tan leather. What that means is they have these open pits in the ground full of liquor and tannins from vegetable sources, barks and leaves and so on and the leather goes into those pits and actually sit there for months. Now chrome tanning could actually take a few days but in order to do this type of leather in pit tanning they have to sit in the pit for months. Just think of that from a cost perspective. If you're in business what you really want is to buy your materials, process them quickly and sell them out the door. Now imagine if you buy your materials and then put them in a pit tan and wait and wait and wait and then process them and sell them. That's a heavy investment in time which is money. So really hats off to Yogi for finding his friend to be able to make him this this really fantastic veg tan leather which I'll tell you a little bit about in a minute in order to satisfy his quality criteria. So that's Kravart. Let's have a look at this bag. Now this is in the CO range. Kravart sells a series of bags in different model ranges so CO, FC is another one, Rana, Alpha. Now basically what these are is a central design that then has complementary bags so for example there are CO satchel bags and this type of duffel will complement them perfectly and they have FC satchels and FC duffels and and other bags and and backpacks. Go and take a look at the website because you'll be astounded at the different types of bags that they come in and it's not just obviously the one design because they come in different sizes as well so you can actually kick yourself out for a full round-the-world travel. You know 1930s going around safari style with a whole lot of different satchels and bags of different sizes. Now this one as I said is in the CO range. It's called the Daytrip duffel bag and you can see it's a nice compact size which you can take for probably a weekend. Now personally I can pack four days in this because I'm a really tidy packer and I usually go on a week-long trip with basically just a backpack so I could fit about four days in this. It measures 44 centimeters long by 26 centimeters high by 22 centimeters in depth. There is a side sort of compartment here which can take a laptop. It's not padded but it can easily take a laptop because of the thickness of the leather and I think you can put in a 15 inch laptop quite easily. It depends on the sort of dimensions of the screen because some of the 15 inch laptops are sort of widescreen and some are square but I think it'd fit a 15 inch really easily. My MacBook 13 just slips in there with room for iPads and cables and all sorts of things. So let's take a look at how this is constructed. So first of all as I said pick tanned, veg tanned leather. It's about two millimeters thick and it's supple and yet sturdy and keeps its shape. The design of this bag you can see it's quite square. It keeps its shape not through any false framework. There are no metal frames in here. There's not even any wire around the edges to keep that shape. That shape is kept up in that square entirely by the thickness of the leather as well as the design of the panels that Yoki has thought through to create this shape that just doesn't collapse but it's not like it's super hard right. It is very supple as well. It just does not collapse. Pull it up and you're back to normal. Let's go through the compartments it has. Now firstly on the outside it has this small zip compartment which you can use for your you know travel documents, pass ports and so on. It's quite deep as you can see. It takes my old hand. Two zip pulls so that you can actually lock them with a TSA friendly lock if you want. On the other side it's plain. I'll tell you about this in a minute. And then the other compartments as I said is a laptop compartment which is just on the side full length, full depth and in this compartment there's also a full width document area. Two little slots for notebooks and various items and a pen slot. So this could be for example where you might put your cables and then your laptop and then maybe a little notebook. And then the main compartment again is a double pull zip compartment. Pulls open quite wide. It zips almost all the way down and inside it like plenty of room inside it is this little zip pocket which again you can use to put small items that you don't want to get lost you know thrown around with your clothing. On the outside the design of the bag and you know this all comes together to show you why it's sort of structured in such a way that it keeps its shape. You have a supporting panel underneath that shapes itself around about a third of the way up the sides and all the way down the bottom. And then you have the two panels that come up and then a full leather panel that comes across. The way it's structured with this zip pocket here with this reinforcing leather piece at the bottom and with the carry straps just keeps that shape. The carry straps are something that's very special. It's actually one long strap of leather. It goes, let me start from here, it goes through these patches to hold them on to, goes under the bag, out the other side, cross there coming back and comes back to here. It's stitched, there's a stitch just there which joins the whole strap together. Now the reason why this is clever in many bags the carry handles are stitched to the sides of the bags so sometimes with use those start to weaken because they are the stress points. What this does is the whole weight of the bag is borne by the straps because they go all the way under the bag and across to the other side and as you carry them there are no weak points because the strap is actually carrying the weight. Very clever and that's the architectural design coming into it. The other things about cravar is that they use really solid brass hardware but here's the kicker. If you take a look at this shoulder strap how it's connected to the bag is through a buckle here and it goes through the brass square ring there. Nowhere does it have metal on metal so in fact what happens when you shake this bag or you run through customs you hear the squeak of leather but you don't hear the clink clink clink of metal which is something very very different indeed. If I had one criticism I guess is that maybe where you carry it is a bit thin. Now I haven't spoken to Yoki about his design thinking. I'm sure he has a reason for it as he does for most of the things he puts in here but I'm thinking that maybe if he wanted an improvement if it didn't sort of conflict with his idea about why he did this he might want to put maybe a sort of tube of leather across both of these so that they're a little bit thicker to handle in the carry handle. For the shoulder strap this is another crava innovation with many new shoulder straps you get this this little pressure pad that you put on your shoulder so it doesn't cut into your shoulder with this the thin strap but with many of them it takes a while to train that shoulder pad to the right level to the right curve and often it's actually very hard but what crava always does is they use a sectioned approach you can see here that the padded part is actually sectioned so it's really easy to get into that curve and almost immediately fits into a curve on your shoulder. Standing up it fits really well across the shoulder if you lengthen the shoulder strap you could probably have it crosswise but it it carries well next to you and on your shoulder it fits really well on your hip. Overall the quality of construction oh gosh I think it's remarkable because the stitching is really solid and very very consistent and fine there are no loose threads there's no tears in the leather I mean look at this there's a reinforcing patch here where this where the hardware slips in and it's sewn in and that reinforcing patch just stops that bit of leather from carrying out too easily and often this you see where that rivet is this often is what might tear because of the stress point but it's got a strip of leather and it's bolted in it's riveted in that just gives it solidity it ain't ever gonna pull out I don't think. I'm taking this I have taken this on a short trip when I went to a little weekend away with my wife but I'm taking this on a business trip in a couple of weeks and that's going to be really quite fantastic I think because I'm going to carry one bag I'll have my laptop and it's a four-day trip my dot bag is that big because I have foldable toothbrushes I have small toothpaste tubes I have foldable screw-in razors and my dot bag is that big so the rest of it is really shirts and t-shirts and a spare pair of pants or an underwear don't forget the underwear. Creva always give their give some free gifts along with their bags so one of the things they give is a what would you call is a card wallet I suppose you know for your cards super thick leather again this one I think it's a little over two millimeters a little bit thicker than the bag itself and they also give you a key holder often made of the same matching leather and because they gave you free gifts when I opened the box this strap came not attached it was just a strap and my wife and I looked at each other and said gee I wonder why they gave us a dog collar and then I had to look at the website and I realized it's not a dog collar you actually attach it to these straps here and it becomes your pass through so that you can slip this onto your roller bag and roll it through the airport dog collar so there you go I am highly impressed by this as I am by the other bags from creva that I've reviewed I have an FC 13 satchel bag which I use almost every day and has become really soft and supple I bought my wife for one Christmas a computer bag I can't remember which series it was I think it might have been the alpha and she loves it it's a bit heavy for her because the the leather is actually extremely thick and heavy but she loves it because it's very protective and I bought myself a 10 inch runner and I had it slightly customized to put a handle on top the runner is a camera bag but I use it because I find it the right shape and roominess to be an EDC bag where I've got my phone and keys and books and magazines it's not something I take to work it's something that I take when I'm out maybe shopping or going to see friends or going to dinner and you might want sort of I don't know pills and medicines in in in your bag this I'm going to use obviously as a travel bag and it's going to be great editor take here slipping this little bit in because I've got to tell you about the actual leather being picked and I wanted to tell you about the appearance of the leather it's over 2 millimeters thick it's about 2.5 millimeters thick which is pretty thick for bag leather and because it's veg tanned it's going to patina really beautifully the leather on the surface is actually quite pebbled let me see if I can get a close-up of this that you can see can you see the sort of pebbling effect on this it's really quite beautiful and and I think when you wear it it's really going to start a really beautiful patina around the edges in the places where you're sort of rubbing your hands with oil I also forgot to tell you how much this this is it's 480 dollars on the website but don't forget there is that 10% discount code if you order before the 31st of December 2023 back to the video so check out the website below use the 10% discount code but it's only until the end of 2023 so don't miss out I hope you like this review I'm really pleased by it and I think I'll now start making more bag reviews which is going to be quite interesting and normally as I review things that are not boots there are obviously things to do with boots that you can use with boots or in a way with boots so tell me if you like that idea I've had a few clothing type of reviews and I might carry on and do some bags tell me if you like that idea so if you like this video you know what to do click on the like button please that really helped me out and if you're new here and you like a bag review then you go to my channel and you see other boot reviews because you're really a boot fanatic don't forget to subscribe just go ahead take care until the next time look after yourselves