Ettinger and Campbell’s of Beauly craft the Hunter Flask
A collaboration between London's leather house and the Scottish textile maker creates an 8oz flask wrapped in houndstooth wool, a steadfast companion for the shooting season and beyond.
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The flask arrives dressed in houndstooth wool from Campbell’s of Beauly, the Highland textile house established in 1858, its rust and cream pattern drawn tight around an 8oz steel vessel. Ettinger, the London leather craftsman founded in 1934, has fitted the whole thing with dark brown leather binding at the rim and base, stitched with the kind of quiet precision that marks genuine heritage in small goods.
The collaboration speaks to a particular rhythm of living: November beaters and winter sporting days, the kind of afternoon when the landscape turns from green to bronze and the need for something warm and companionable becomes essential. The flask’s proportions make sense for a game bag or a coat pocket. The steel inside sits brushed and waiting. The houndstooth wrapping, woven in the mills of the Scottish Borders, carries the weight of a hundred seasons of use.
Campbell’s patterns, recognisable to anyone who knows the texture of a proper shooting jacket, wrap around the form as if the flask were already a seasoned fixture in the landscape. The leather strap across the top, practical and supple, fastens with a stud. This is not ornament for ornament’s sake; each element exists because the thing needs to be carried, warmed, poured from and lived with.
The flask joins Ettinger’s collection of country accessories, each one built to outlast fashion and gather the patina of genuine use. It is available now.
Imagery courtesy of Ettinger (@ettinger.london).
