Newspaper Laptop Bag

We LOVE these bags from Onyx and Green. When we heard "newspaper bags" we imagined something like what you'd get in the supermarket, not this! Onyx and Green tells us these bags are made from a variety of recycled newspaper (though they look more like magazines), ramie, and jute plant blends. The colorful body is made from a weave of paper strips that has been treated to make it sturdier, but this bag is not water resistant. (We picked at the strips enough to prove they didn't tear easily and a little water on the surface does bead up, but it will not hold up to larger amounts of water.) The rest is a blue-grey canvas-like fabric, nylon zippers, and shiny metal hardware. This is a straightforward computer bag with few bells and whistles. The front and back panels are both made from the woven paper. The 1" wide non-removable strap can be adjusted to anywhere between 2 feet and nearly 4 feet long. A nylon zipper runs from the upper right corner around the upper left to the lower left cor