Baggage tag with your own hands. Personalized suitcase tag Suitcase tag download template

In the world, one way or another, countless bags, backpacks, suitcases are lost. It is especially unpleasant to stay in a strange unfamiliar city or country without personal belongings. But lost things do not always become the prey of dishonest people. You can lose your bag in transport, in a hotel, train station, subway, etc. (The problem of lost luggage at airports has long been a headache for most airlines, despite numerous precautions). Of course, the main thing for us is our luggage, and we are little comforted by the thought that the loss of a suitcase or bag is a fairly common event. A luggage tag in such cases can greatly facilitate your efforts to find a lost suitcase.

Luggage personalization

On the tag for a suitcase, you can put a wide variety of information about the owner. For example, you can write your last name, first name, contact numbers, address, email, and do it in Russian or English(depending on the possible host country). This information may be useful to you, because, fortunately, the loss of luggage is rarely associated with someone's evil intentions. And in most cases, the people who found the missing bag simply do not know who to return it to, because there is no information about the owner of the luggage.

The luggage tag attaches to backpacks, duffel bags, suitcases, laptop cases, and more. They're waterproof and UV-resistant, and keep whatever information you put on them for a long time. A suitcase tag can also be a great little gift for someone who loves to travel.

Even if you have never lost your luggage, but you have bags, backpacks, suitcases that you use, do not neglect a little precaution in the form of a stylish suitcase tag that you can pick up for yourself right now.

Going on vacation, we habitually cling to the handle of the suitcase a tag with our full ID in case it gets lost... So, it is strongly not recommended to do this. Why? Tips from WallaNews for those with heavy luggage.

1. Do not write the address on the suitcase

So, vacation again. We pack our suitcase again, think ten times: "put it down, don't put it down", but about this plastic tag that we were given along with the ticket to travel company(if we applied there), we almost never doubt. How can this innocent tag hinder us?

Here's what the popular American travel forum says Quora. The fact is that with this tag, our luggage will fly to the right place or not to the right place, we can lose more than a suitcase. This tag is a message from the mafia of apartment thieves: "Dear gentlemen, I will not be at home in the near future, you can break the door and make yourself comfortable in my apartment."

That is, we do not want, of course, to say that all the loaders at the airport are completely gunners. But apartment thieves are also not fools, they know where to make contacts. We asked a reliable neighbor to take out the mail from the box so that it does not accumulate, but did you think about it?

Some thought and write on the tag not their address, but the address of their good friends or relatives. Also not very good idea. Thieves do not know that they are not you, and they can break into their apartment. The correct decision is to write your work address on the tag, thieves will not climb there, but climb, it’s worse for them. Even better - insert a business card there and leave another one in your suitcase. Home addresses are usually not written on business cards.

More tips from Quora.

2. Take pictures

Take pictures of your luggage. Make photocopies of all documents, including the air ticket, translate them into the most common format (for example, doc) and have them everywhere: on your laptop, on your smartphone, on the Internet. And print again. You will see how much calmer you are now. In case you lose your luggage or something else, it will be easier for you to explain yourself to the airport staff. Especially in those countries where the staff speaks little English. Or even in those countries where the staff speaks good English, but you do not speak this language well.

3. Weigh yourself

Everyone knows what to weigh luggage and hand luggage it is necessary even before leaving for the airport, but for some reason many do not do this. And then they start to panic when they find the advantage. What to do if the limit is still used?

4. Laptop - separately

And preferably in a special case. The fact is that airport employees perceive a laptop, smartphone, camera and other electronics separately from the rest of their hand luggage and do not require additional payment for them. In fact, you have not one piece of hand luggage, but two.

That is, you understand: a laptop is from hand luggage, and there is something extra from luggage. Can they find fault and make you weigh all your hand luggage with a laptop together? Yes they can. But, according to forum participants, this happens very rarely.

5. "Caution, glass!"

Stick it on all your things. So what, that there is nothing glass, stick it anyway. The porters at the airport are not distinguished by a tender attitude towards things, but here, perhaps, they will beware of kicking and throwing them: you never know, all of a sudden there is glass there, and you warned them, you wouldn’t have to answer later. As practice shows, it works.

If you're a frequent traveler, you're familiar with the problem of waiting and finding your suitcase on the baggage claim belt among many similar in color and size. I'm not talking about those happy owners of brightly colored or printed suitcases that can be distinguished in the blink of an eye. But if you are the owner of a black-gray-blue-brown suitcase, then this problem is familiar to you.

This luggage tag can also be a great gift for a traveler!

In general, a great solution to this problem is a personalized luggage tag with a letter. It can be one letter, or two, for example, the first letters of the first and last names.

You can make it in half an hour with your own hands. For this you will need:

- a piece of leather (any, new or used, but preferably bright)

- about 30 cm of strong braid (I used synthetic). If the braid is thin, take 60cm.

- scissors or cutting knife

- letter stencil (you can draw it yourself or print it from a computer)

- a pen, and even better a disappearing felt-tip pen for fabric

- sewing machine.

Circle the letter twice, attaching it from the wrong side of the skin.

Cut them out, then glue the flesh inside. This is done so that when sewing on a typewriter, the parts do not move out.

Sew the details on a typewriter, retreating from the edge of 1.5-2 mm.

If the details still move out a little, trim them carefully with scissors.

Cut with a knife in the upper part of the letter a strip equal to or slightly more than the width of the braid.

Required materials and tools:

• 12 cm of fabric or five shreds 17 by 10 cm;
• hard seal;
• threads;
• scissors;
• tape 35 cm long and 1.5 cm wide;
• invisible;
• disappearing ink or chalk;
• transparent vinyl 10 by 3 cm;
• iron;
• fabric glue.

We make a blank for the tag

Draw the outline of your tag on a sheet of paper, make a window on the front side. Cut along the outline. This will be our stencil. Attach it to the seal, circle it. The second stencil can not be circled, just fold the seal in half and cut along the drawn outline. Now attach a front side stencil to one of the parts and circle the window. Fold the seal piece in half and carefully cut out the hole. The photo shows these steps in detail, so there should be no difficulties.

Sewing to fabric

Before we proceed to the next step, the luggage tag must be ironed, preferably from the wrong side. Lay the seal piece right side out on the wrong side of the fabric. Sew with small stitches.

Cut out pieces of fabric

Cut out the stitched parts from your piece of fabric, stepping back a few millimeters from the seams. Now cut a window in the seal. Try not to go beyond the line.

We make a layer

Turn the insert right side up, iron it. Cut out the outline of your tag from another piece of fabric. Sew with seal and iron. Glue the resulting parts onto another piece of fabric.

Preparing a place under the window

Place your pieces right side up. Cut out, leaving a few millimeters around the edges. In the place where you have the window, cut a small hole, as shown in the photo.

Fixing vinyl

Make diagonal cuts to the corners of the window. Apply glue to these parts and wrap this fabric inside. Press firmly so that the fabric adheres better. Now take the vinyl, attach it to the part of the tag that you just wrapped the corners of the fabric on. Sew with small stitches. Trim off the excess.

Making a loop

Fold the ribbon in half and sew the ends to the inside of the tag. Make a small incision at the top of the tag, overcast it. Here we will thread the tape.

Tag is ready

To complete your DIY luggage tag, fold the pieces together and machine stitch. Be careful not to stitch the top edge, we will need this part to thread the data card through. Now you can insert our card into the tag. To prevent it from falling out, thread the tape through the hole and pull lightly. Your handmade luggage tag is ready! Attach it to your bag or suitcase and feel free to hit the road.