Recycled car seat belts have been made into pant belts, bags and chairs for a while now. This blogger has seen quite a few of these seat belt designs, most of them artisanal, and most look it. That is until 959, an Italian company that makes bags with recycled seatbelts, but in a way that incorporates the constraints of seat belts as a raw material into the designs and turns them into highly desirable objects. 959 does this in a few ways; by weaving the belts to create a checkerboard pattern, making the bags no wider than a belt width (or a multiple therof), using the belts as straps and using the seat belt latch in the strap. All very clever and serves the design in a way that makes it look like belts were made to be made into bags! 959 has several models of bags; the 531, 581, 793, and 972, essentially from small to big in size. 531 is a clutch bag, 581 a slightly larger clutch, 793 a travel or gym bag and the 972 can hold a notebook computer (that’s the 531 clutch above). All the bags are made from recuperated seat belts. 959 designer Paolo Ferrari is also working hard to apply seat belts to other other types of design, expect a number of new forthcoming items including carpets, seating, jackets and more made of seat belts.