THE DRIP 002: "Los Volcanes" (The Volcanoes)
She rose from volcanic soil. She carried beans across an ocean. Now she carries everything that matters — and nothing in the world looks like her.
This is The Drip Brief Tote No. 002 — named Los Volcanes for the real Guatemalan farm whose name is pressed into her jute body in bold brick-red ink. This is not a print. Not a pattern. Not a textile design. This is the original export stamp of Los Volcanes Coffee, El Progreso, Guatemala — harvest 2025/2026, lot 921 — transferred directly from the farm to this bag without a single alteration. You are carrying a certified record of a real harvest.
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“The print you see isn’t decoration — it’s provenance. The typography, the emblems, the faded ink — that’s the original mark of the farm, pressed into jute before the beans ever left their country of origin.” Octavius Marsion · Designer Statement · Atlanta |
WHAT MAKES THIS BAG
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BODY Upcycled Guatemalan coffee export burlap — dual-face sack, full original farm print on both sides |
GRAPHIC — FRONT “GUATEMALA” in bold burgundy · geometric volcano mountain logo mark · sweeping terracotta wave landscape bands |
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GRAPHIC — BACK “Los Volcanes Coffee” · “El Progreso” · Harvest 2025/2026 · Lot 11 / 921 / 15 |
HANDLES Genuine dark leather, hand-stitched double-loop — structured, soft-formed carry |
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HARDWARE Jumbo 7/8” solid brass spring clip (claw hook) — polished gold finish, heavy-duty swivel ring |
TRIM Hand-woven braid — rust, gold & black — sewn along all perimeter seams |
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BOTTOM FEET Four solid brass stud feet — a first in The Drip collection. Protects the base. Elevates the structure. |
CLOSURE Top-zip with Octavius Marsion leather branded zip-pull tab |
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MADE IN Atlanta, Georgia — entirely by hand, in-studio, by Octavius Marsion |
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GRAPHIC ORIGIN · WHAT YOU’RE READING ON THIS BAG
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“GUATEMALA” |
Bold burgundy lettering across the upper front face. The country of origin, stamped at the farm before the sack was ever filled. |
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Geometric volcano logo mark |
The red and terracotta mountain graphic is the brand mark of the Los Volcanes cooperative — a stylized rendering of the volcanoes that surround the growing region. |
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Wave landscape bands |
The sweeping rust, brick red, olive, and plum terrain across the lower body is the farm’s sack design, printed at origin. A topographic portrait of volcanic Guatemalan hillside terrain. |
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“Los Volcanes Coffee · El Progreso · 2025/2026” |
The back face carries the full farm name, growing region, and dual harvest year. Lot numbers 11 / 921 / 15 identify the specific batch. This bag is traceable to a single harvest. |
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“SHB EP” · “CAFE GUAT” · “GREEN COFFEE” |
Side panels carry the grade classification (Strictly Hard Bean), regional abbreviation, and commodity type. Batch code P2600082-F is the export identifier for this exact sack. |
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Octavius Marsion Atlanta label |
Embossed leather brand patch, hand-sewn to the upper front panel. The only mark we added. |
THE FULL STORY
Somewhere in El Progreso, Guatemala — in the shadow of more than thirty volcanoes — a farmer harvested coffee beans in 2025 and 2026. Those beans were packed into this burlap sack, stamped with the farm’s identity, and loaded onto a container ship. The sack crossed the Pacific. It arrived at a warehouse in the United States, was cut open, emptied, and set aside. Most sacks like this end up discarded. This one ended up on my worktable.
I selected it specifically for the drama of its composition — the bold country-of-origin typography, the geometric volcano brand mark, the sweeping terrain bands that read like a painting of the hillsides where those beans grew. I cut it, structured it, and assembled it entirely by hand in Atlanta. The dark genuine leather handles were formed and box-stitched individually. The woven braid trim was hand-applied seam by seam. The brass feet — a first in The Drip collection — were set into the base one stud at a time, so this bag stands on its own the way the land it came from does.
Los Volcanes is not a bag with a story printed on it. It is the story — restructured, refined, and built to last.
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1 OF 1 — THIS EXACT BAG WILL NEVER EXIST AGAIN Los Volcanes is built from a single, specific Guatemalan coffee export sack. When this bag sells, that sack is gone. No restock. No reprint. No second edition. The graphic placement, color composition, burlap weave texture, and terrain band arrangement are unique to this piece. La Flor Negra sold out the same day she launched. Los Volcanes will be no different. |
The volcanoes waited millions of years.
This bag won’t.
We release new Drip totes as they’re completed in the Atlanta studio — sometimes several times a week, always one at a time. If Los Volcanes is still here when you’re reading this, you’re early. Check back daily for new named drops added to the collection.
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✓ Will not be restocked ✓ New drops added daily ✓ Handmade in Atlanta, Georgia |