Escama Studio is based in California and Brazil producing a handcrafted range of womans bags using one main material - recycled aluminium tabs. Escama descovered a way to crochet tabs together creating bags, accessories even clothing now, it is a technique used in brazil mainly. A whole 70,000 of these bags have been produced since 2004 and the artist team has grown from 12 to 100!Escama's inspiration originated from the Pop Top Fashions of the 70's where can tabs were in the form of pop tops and were pulled completely off the can and some people used them to make quirky hats and accessories.
Images found at: http://www.escamastudio.com/products.html
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