She experimented with fabrics and hardware, eventually settling on her now trademark canvas and antique brass buckles. The Brompton bags worked great and soon enough requests from friends who wanted different bags started flooding in. She bought a few metres of waterproof canvas, sketched out how the functional aspects of the Mary Poppins bag would work and set to task on a tiny domestic sewing machine. But with nothing suitable on the market, Tia rose to the challenge.
Joel wanted a bag that they could first pack their bikes into as checked luggage and then use as a handlebar bag once in Japan. The idea was to use bullet trains to cover the big miles and the ultra-portable Bromptons to whizz about the sprawling cities.
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So when she discovered the world of Textile Design at Melbourne’s RMIT University open day, she immediately caught fabric fever and decided to train as a professional Textile Designer.Īfter graduating, Tia and her partner Joel started planning a Brompton bike tour of Japan. Sewing, drawing and photography were all early hobbies. Growing up, Tia always had a natural affinity for the arts. So when Sam and I returned to Melbourne three years later, I couldn’t wait to check in with Framework Designs Founder, Tia Evans on how the business was going, visit her home studio and, of course, share it all with you. That bag has travelled halfway across the world with me, weathering everything from tropical monsoons in South East Asia to numbing snowstorms in Nepal. I mean, who knew hair straighteners and a hardback copy of The Power of Now wouldn’t be suitable for a bike tour? That said, I also made some damn good decisions, not least my choice of basketbag: The Sight Seeker from Framework Designs. To say I made some mistakes would be an understatement.
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I had to find a bike, learn how to ride it (yes, I’m serious) and figure out how the hell I was going to pack my life into two panniers and a basket bag. But with precisely zero bike touring experience under my belt, cycling around the world with a stranger was ironically the least of my worries. I’ll concede that a multi-year bike tour isn’t exactly a traditional way to start a relationship. Red flag? Romantic? Stupidly spontaneous? – I’ll let you decide. I’d only started dating my partner Sam for a matter of weeks before we left to cycle around the world together. Monastery vibes in Laos (Photo Credit Seeker Ha Giang Loop
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