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A soft hobo shoulder bag with a tassel, in 2 finishes, slouching under the arm rather than holding a rigid shape.
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A hobo bag is defined by what it does not have: structure. It slouches, it curves under its own weight, and it sits under the arm rather than hanging away from the body.
That makes it comfortable and it makes it the wrong bag for anything that needs protecting. A soft bag transmits whatever hits it straight to the contents, so it is not the bag to carry a mahjong set in.
Decorative, and quietly useful. In a cloakroom, under a table with several other bags, or in a car boot, a bag with a distinguishing detail is found immediately. Plain black bags are lost constantly.
Black with silver hardware is the one that goes with everything and gets used most. Suede brown is warmer and more seasonal, and it asks more care: suede marks with water and cannot simply be wiped.
If it is a first bag of this kind, take the black.
A phone, a wallet, keys, glasses and the usual things. Not a tile set, which is worth saying plainly since the mahjong name in this category leads buyers to expect otherwise.
Dry cloth on the black. A suede brush on the brown, never a wet cloth. Store both stuffed lightly so the shape does not collapse permanently.
| Type | Soft hobo shoulder bag |
|---|---|
| Detail | Tassel |
| Colours | Black silver, suede brown |
| Weight | 0.6 kg (1.3 lb) |
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Nobody knows what's inside
Cowhide, suede, straw. Carry it to your friend’s place, then carry it to lunch.
Big enough to matter
Sizes that take a compact tile set, which handbags almost never do. Capacity is on the page, so it's a choice and not a gamble.
Take mahj with you
The reason your set leaves the house instead of living in a closet.
Count what has to be bought before a first hand. Tiles in the higher American count, 4 racks because the hand cannot lie flat, pushers to move a built wall, and the current year's card, which stops being current. Four purchases against the one a Chinese set needs, each from a small supplier. None is expensive alone, which is why the total surprises people.
Big enough for the case, with depth the figure that decides it, since a tile set is a thick, dense object rather than a flat one. That rules this bag out. A hobo has no structure, weighs 0.6 kg empty and slouches under the arm, so a heavy set would pull it out of shape and take every knock through the soft sides. It is sized for a phone, a wallet, keys and glasses.
It follows the tile, in this order: size, material, count. Below a certain point the faces are printed on thin stock and wear through within a couple of years, and above it the money buys weight and finish rather than better play. Worth remembering that the set is rarely the last purchase. Racks, a mat and something to carry it in usually follow inside a month.
Weekly players tend to own the tiles, the racks and the mat already, so what lands is a present for everything else. This is a bag for the player rather than for the set: a soft hobo shape with a tassel, 0.6 kg, in black silver or suede brown. The tassel is worth more than it appears, because it makes the bag findable in a cloakroom full of near identical black ones.
A mahjong set is handled more than almost anything else in the house: every tile passes through four pairs of hands, several times a game.
That is what we select for. Tiles that read clearly from the far side of the table, edges that stay clean, and a case that still closes after a few seasons of being carried around.
Sets differ in ways that only show at the table: the weight of a tile in the hand, how a crak reads from three seats away, whether the case survives the trip to a friend’s house.
When we have the figures, we publish them: tile count, tile size, weight and material. When we do not have one, we leave it out rather than guess.
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