@HayiWena@ai6yr I totally love these and carry them all the time. They fold down so small and work great for groceries/small packages/floating Tardises, etc.
Please advise if you ever find a source for the Chicobag Micro keychain tote -- not the standard small folding tote but the tiny literally egg-sized kind in blue, green or black that used to be sold attached to a card, sometimes in sets of two. It is my Online Unobtainia #1.
Have thought about it but know the odds are steep: the item has been discontinued for about 10 years after being last sold (that I know of) by the Sierra.com company, which seems to be an affiliate of Marshall's doing a similar remainder-resale kind of business. Even though Wirecutter once called it one of the 7 best folding shopping bags. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/reusable-shopping-bags/
The fabric is a nylon that's different from their standard PETE bags. Don't know what kind of nylon. I had the idea at some point that it was parachute cloth but I can't find that in any documentation that is still online and I may just be mistaken about that.
The cloth would be the issue, not the pattern. The pattern is similar to the standard ChicoBag, just a bit smaller. The main thing about the Micro is that the nylon cloth is very compact but not crinkly.
Hm, it doesn't have a coating or that silicon feel on the hand like Sea to Summit bags, which I think are silnylon. Maybe plain ripstop? But it doesn't have those heavier ribs woven into the fabric either. More like an imitation of silk, but not fragile like silk can be.
@MBridegam@meganL Or just parachute fabric (Nylon 66)? In that case, I'd buy an old parachute (they have a limited lifetime, lots of excess) and chop that into lots of little bags... you might get thousands out of one parachute, LOL.
@MBridegam@meganL 1.1 oz per yard, it's the lightest fabric out there. I believe I have a tent/tent bag made out of it (out of a closeout/shipping returns sale, bought the thing for $50 but it was a $500+ tent originally!!!)
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