ExxEss Baggage is the first of several new creative projects being launched by Washington StateHouse of ExxEss, the power behind ExxEss Latex, star of fashion shows at various international fetish events.

The sub-brand, already featured on the new ExxEss Latex Etsy store and soon to appear on an even newer ExxEss website, marks the debut of a radical new latex production technique developed by designer Jeannie Lou.

Jeannie started with the idea of rubberised fabric, in which liquid latex is coated onto a conventional woven fabric and allowed to soak in. It’s a process commonly used with zipper tapes to make them easier to bond to sheet latex.

But she has taken that concept to another level by subjecting her latex-fabric mixtures to a proprietary process involving repeated pressing.

The resulting hybrid sheeting, ExxEss Fabric, is claimed by Jeannie’s partner Al Holt to be “a sustainable replacement for plastics, petroleum products and animal hide”.

Unbleached cotton fabric is at the heart of the mixture, while organic cotton linen, bamboo fabrics and organic cotton twill are among other natural fibres employed.

The production process is time-consuming, but the result, according to ExxEss Latex’s UK associate, the latex artist and designer Catasta Charisma, is “rubber sheeting that has an incredibly soft feel yet is also incredibly robust”.

These qualities, he adds, make the hybrid sheeting ideal for producing items of a structural type — “products that need some rigidity for them to hold their shape and yet still remain incredibly flexible”.

ABOVE: ExxEss Baggage designer Jeannie Lou and her trusty assistant at House of ExxEss 

Hence why Jeannie started by making bags and purses from the sheeting. She has produced sheeting in a large array of colour backgrounds and effects, decorated in a plethora of patterns, also in rubber.

In this article you can see images of the first ExxEss Baggage items to come to market. The UK Etsy shop features helpful multiple views of each product — a selection of which we’ve reproduced at the bottom.