You can find a lot of ‘Made in the USA’ brands online, but they must fight for attention

Photo caption: Finished bags wait on racks at the Tom Bihn production facility in Seattle. The company makes its bags in the US and sells them from its own website. Laura Hautala. Article by Laura Hautala. CNET – August 25, 2021.

The sputtering hum of sewing machines accompanies my tour of the Tom Bihn production floor in Seattle, where employees cut batches of fabric pieces, then pass them from machine to machine where workers sew the parts together. Finally, two quality control inspectors sitting on barstool-height chairs hold each resulting bag under a light, checking for loose threads or holes where seams should be, sometimes taking out a lighter to fully melt the ends of nylon straps to prevent fraying. […]

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