KOMELY FASHION HANDBAG FACTORY IN CHINA
INTRODUCTION OF FIRST MESH BAGS
COMELY HANDBAG
The mesh bag, in spite of its military origins and metallic substance, has a fluidity, drape and soft handle that come from its basically knitted construction.
Whiting &Davis, who are most closely associated with the design and manufacture of the mesh bag, are still in business today.
The company originated in 1876in Plainville, Massachusetts, when William H Wade and Edward P David founded the Wade Davis Company to manufacture small items of jewellery.
Charles A whiting joined the company in 1982, and it was he who was responsible for the design and development of the first mesh handbag.
Mesh had previously been used for military purposes, with chainmail mesh being the obvious from the piercing thrusts of knives and swords in hand-to-hand combat.
During the eighteenth century, the technique was appropriated for gun metal mesh purses, but it was only with the patenting of an automatic mesh making machine, invented in 1909 by A C Pratt, that mesh purses achieved their highly visible ubiquity Prior to this invention, mesh assembly was laborious as each completed mesh bag could contain up to 100,000 links, individually wound, split and then joined by hand.