GraceDesign
Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia
Waxed canvas, leather, and Pendleton wool bags and backpacks handmade to order in a small studio on Vancouver Island, BC.
Victoria, BC CA · www.gracedesign.ca
GraceDesign is a one-woman studio brand run by designer Alison out of Victoria, BC, handmaking waxed-canvas, leather, and Pendleton-wool bags to order and selling mainly direct, with a scatter of small Canadian and US boutiques as stockists. Ownership, manufacturing, and staff are all concentrated in the Vancouver Island studio; the wool used in several lines is an American mill fabric and other textiles are sourced globally, so inputs are the one factor that is not Canadian.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 reportedCA 100%
The vendor's own bio page is written in the first person by sole designer Alison, describing 30 years of personal sourcing trips and a home studio, with no co-founder, investor, or parent company named. Corporations Canada's federal search for "Grace Design" returns only an unrelated dissolved company (Agnes & Grace Design Inc.), and the BC Registry's search is a JavaScript single-page app with no server-rendered results, so the provincial registration could not be checked directly.
- Meet Alison... - GraceDesign · the vendor's own site “Grace Design was born not from a business plan but the way all soul work does — by following beauty.”
- Search for a Federal Corporation - Corporations Canada · registry record “1 results were found, 1 returned. DESIGN AGNES & GRACE INC.”
Manufacturing
100.0 reportedCA 100%
The home page states every bag is made by hand in the company's own studio on Vancouver Island, Canada, corroborated by madeinca.ca listing the manufacturing location as Victoria, British Columbia.
- Waxed Canvas Bags, Leather Backpacks & Pendleton Wool · the vendor's own site “We make every bag by hand in our studio on Vancouver Island, Canada.”
- You searched for grace design | Made in CA · directory “Name: GRACE Design Products: Handcrafted bags, backpacks, and other accessories Manufactured In: Victoria, British Columbia”
People
100.0 reportedCA 100%
The business is a single home/studio operation on Vancouver Island, BC; no other office, warehouse, or staff location is named anywhere on the site.
- Meet Alison... - GraceDesign · the vendor's own site “We make every bag by hand in our studio on Vancouver Island, Canada.”
Inputs
10.5 reportedCA 10% · other 55% · US 35%
Product pages state the Pendleton-wool lines (Voyageur, Willow, Brooklyn, Avalon, and most Tofino pieces) are made with wool from "the historic Pendleton Mills, an American company," and the brand's own story centres on vintage and ethnic textiles the designer has sourced in India, Morocco, Peru, Japan, Guatemala, and Bali over three decades. No published figures split materials by revenue, so the mix is an estimate: OTHER for the globally sourced canvas and vintage textiles that run through most of the catalogue, US for the Pendleton wool, and a small CA share for the cowhide leather trim and hardware, whose origin is not stated.
- Voyageur Backpack | Sienna - GraceDesign · the vendor's own site “this collection is made from the most beautiful luxury wools from the historic Pendleton® Mills, an American company that has been in business since the 1800's”
- Meet Alison... - GraceDesign · the vendor's own site “From India to Morocco, Peru to Japan - I have followed the thread of story & spirit that lives inside every piece of cloth”
Where to buy
Found via
- madeinca.ca 2026-09-13