Picotin Lock

A good-natured horse, a mound of fragrant hay and a bucolic picnic: that is what we take with us when we carry this bag. Its name? A “picotin” is a peck, being a quarter of a bushel, long the standard measure of grain. Its shape? Inspired by a nosebag, which was fixed, as its name indicates, to the nose of a horse or mule so that it could continue walking as it ate its oats. Simple and functional, with raw edges and no lining, precious little stitching, it stands securely on its four metal feet. Its fastener does however enable us to squirrel away our treasures in its fold – to hide our light under a (quarter-) bushel.