How Pull Tab Bags are Made

Based in San Francisco and Brazil, Escama Studio makes beautiful recycled fashion accessories using crochet and recycled aluminum pull-tabs.

This film shows the various steps required to make a ring pull bag: from sourcing recycled aluminum, sorting usable tabs, washing, polishing, trimming and crocheting pop tops into the finished products. This film follows the journey of the bags from Brazil to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The film was shot by a film crew in Brazil and was directed and edited in London  by the award winning team of Tom Atkinson and Luke Dormehl. It aired in the UK in 2009 as part of the Channel 4 '3 Minute Wonder' series. The version that you see here was later edited for use in the US.