Description
Reproduction of the Finnish 1940 pattern bread bag.
We make this bread bag here in Finland. Made from 100% cotton canvas, cowhide, pigskin, custom steel fittings and original metal buttons. In other words, this is as close you can get to a wartime made bread bag without owning one.
After the Winter War Finns decided that a new and simpler model of bread bag should be designed. As a result it was to replace the German World War 1 -type bread bags that were used until then. This bag is made to represent the early Continuation War bread bags.
The bag has two inner compartments, cowhide and steel parts for fastening your canteen and mess tin onto the outer flap, straps with pigskin reinforcements for hanging the bag from your belt and an adjustable shoulder strap with a loop to lock it onto your epaulette. Many of these features were rarely used but they are there, just like on the originals.
We offer this bag with several leather color options. Leather was scarce during the war so all kinds were used. All of these colors can be found on period bread bags, although shades of brown seem to have been the most common.
Unlike in the photos which all have natural colored pigskin strap reinforcements, we match the lightness of the pigskin strap reinforcements to you selected leather color: darker leather colors will have darker reinforcements and lightest colors will have natural leather reinforcements. Let us know if you want us to make an exception for your bag.
For the random color option we use mostly offcuts from various other leather projects, so the color varies, but it is still in the range of authenticity. The images only show one example. Single bag will still have leather parts of the same color.
Price is for one.
