diff --git a/src/app/App.js b/src/app/App.js
index b117efe..72c802f 100644
--- a/src/app/App.js
+++ b/src/app/App.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import React from "react";
 import { ApolloProvider } from "@apollo/client";
 import { Auth0Provider } from "@auth0/auth0-react";
-import { CSSReset, ChakraProvider, extendTheme } from "@chakra-ui/react";
+import { CSSReset, ChakraProvider, extendTheme, Box } from "@chakra-ui/react";
 import { mode } from "@chakra-ui/theme-tools";
 import {
   BrowserRouter as Router,
@@ -45,6 +45,17 @@ const WardrobePage = loadable(() => import("./WardrobePage"), {
   fallback: <WardrobePageLayout />,
 });
 
+// ItemPage and ItemSearchPage need to share a search toolbar, so here it is!
+// It'll load in dynamically like the page elements, with a hacky fallback to
+// take up 40px of height until it loads.
+//
+// There very well be a better way to encapsulate this! It's not *great* to
+// have this here. I just don't wanna over abstract it just yet 😅
+const ItemSearchPageToolbar = loadable(
+  () => import("./components/ItemSearchPageToolbar"),
+  { fallback: <Box height="40px" /> }
+);
+
 const theme = extendTheme({
   styles: {
     global: (props) => ({
@@ -116,6 +127,7 @@ function App() {
             <Switch>
               <Route path="/items/search/:query?">
                 <PageLayout>
+                  <ItemSearchPageToolbar marginBottom="6" />
                   <ItemSearchPage />
                 </PageLayout>
               </Route>
@@ -131,6 +143,7 @@ function App() {
               </Route>
               <Route path="/items/:itemId">
                 <PageLayout>
+                  <ItemSearchPageToolbar marginBottom="8" />
                   <ItemPage />
                 </PageLayout>
               </Route>
diff --git a/src/app/ItemPage.js b/src/app/ItemPage.js
index 0cb0006..dc69b91 100644
--- a/src/app/ItemPage.js
+++ b/src/app/ItemPage.js
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import { useQuery, useMutation } from "@apollo/client";
 import { Link, useParams } from "react-router-dom";
 
 import ItemPageLayout, { SubtleSkeleton } from "./ItemPageLayout";
-import { Delay, logAndCapture, usePageTitle } from "./util";
+import { Delay, logAndCapture, useLocalStorage, usePageTitle } from "./util";
 import HTML5Badge, { layerUsesHTML5 } from "./components/HTML5Badge";
 import {
   itemAppearanceFragment,
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ import SpeciesColorPicker, {
   getClosestPose,
 } from "./components/SpeciesColorPicker";
 import useCurrentUser from "./components/useCurrentUser";
-import { useLocalStorage } from "./util";
 import SpeciesFacesPicker, {
   colorIsBasic,
 } from "./ItemPage/SpeciesFacesPicker";
diff --git a/src/app/ItemSearchPage.js b/src/app/ItemSearchPage.js
index 38ca1f9..8378067 100644
--- a/src/app/ItemSearchPage.js
+++ b/src/app/ItemSearchPage.js
@@ -1,98 +1,21 @@
-import React from "react";
 import { Box, Wrap, WrapItem } from "@chakra-ui/react";
 import gql from "graphql-tag";
 import { useQuery } from "@apollo/client";
-import { useHistory, useLocation, useParams } from "react-router-dom";
 
-import SearchToolbar, {
+import {
   emptySearchQuery,
   searchQueryIsEmpty,
 } from "./WardrobePage/SearchToolbar";
 import SquareItemCard, {
   SquareItemCardSkeleton,
 } from "./components/SquareItemCard";
-import { Delay, MajorErrorMessage, useCommonStyles, useDebounce } from "./util";
+import { Delay, MajorErrorMessage, useDebounce } from "./util";
 import PaginationToolbar from "./components/PaginationToolbar";
+import { useSearchQueryInUrl } from "./components/ItemSearchPageToolbar";
 
 function ItemSearchPage() {
-  const [query, offset, setQuery] = useSearchQueryInUrl();
-  const { brightBackground } = useCommonStyles();
+  const { query: latestQuery, offset } = useSearchQueryInUrl();
 
-  return (
-    <Box>
-      <SearchToolbar
-        query={query}
-        onChange={setQuery}
-        showItemsLabel
-        background={brightBackground}
-        boxShadow="md"
-        autoFocus
-      />
-      <Box height="6" />
-      <ItemSearchPageResults query={query} offset={offset} />
-    </Box>
-  );
-}
-
-/**
- * useSearchQueryInUrl provides an API like useState, but stores the search
- * query in the URL! It also parses out the offset for us.
- */
-function useSearchQueryInUrl() {
-  const history = useHistory();
-
-  const { query: value } = useParams();
-  const { search } = useLocation();
-  const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(search);
-
-  const query = {
-    value: decodeURIComponent(value || ""),
-    filterToZoneLabel: searchParams.get("zone") || null,
-    filterToItemKind: searchParams.get("kind") || null,
-    filterToCurrentUserOwnsOrWants: searchParams.get("user") || null,
-  };
-
-  const offset = parseInt(searchParams.get("offset")) || 0;
-
-  const setQuery = React.useCallback(
-    (newQuery) => {
-      let url = `/items/search`;
-
-      if (newQuery.value) {
-        url += "/" + encodeURIComponent(newQuery.value);
-      }
-
-      const newParams = new URLSearchParams();
-      if (newQuery.filterToItemKind) {
-        newParams.append("kind", newQuery.filterToItemKind);
-      }
-      if (newQuery.filterToZoneLabel) {
-        newParams.append("zone", newQuery.filterToZoneLabel);
-      }
-      if (newQuery.filterToCurrentUserOwnsOrWants) {
-        newParams.append("user", newQuery.filterToCurrentUserOwnsOrWants);
-      }
-
-      // NOTE: We omit `offset`, because changing the query should reset us
-      //       back to the first page!
-
-      const search = newParams.toString();
-      if (search) {
-        url += "?" + search;
-      }
-
-      history.replace(url);
-    },
-    [history]
-  );
-
-  // NOTE: We don't provide a `setOffset`, because that's handled via
-  //       pagination links.
-
-  return [query, offset, setQuery];
-}
-
-function ItemSearchPageResults({ query: latestQuery, offset }) {
   // NOTE: Some of this is copied from SearchPanel... but all of this is messy
   //       enough that I'm not comfy code-sharing yet, esp since I feel like
   //       SearchPanel pagination is a bit of a mess and will need refactoring.
diff --git a/src/app/components/ItemSearchPageToolbar.js b/src/app/components/ItemSearchPageToolbar.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f3ea319
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/components/ItemSearchPageToolbar.js
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+import React from "react";
+import { useHistory, useLocation, useParams } from "react-router-dom";
+import { useCommonStyles } from "../util";
+import SearchToolbar from "../WardrobePage/SearchToolbar";
+
+function ItemSearchPageToolbar({ ...props }) {
+  const { query, setQuery } = useSearchQueryInUrl();
+  const { brightBackground } = useCommonStyles();
+
+  return (
+    <SearchToolbar
+      query={query}
+      onChange={setQuery}
+      showItemsLabel
+      background={brightBackground}
+      boxShadow="md"
+      {...props}
+    />
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * useSearchQueryInUrl provides an API like useState, but stores the search
+ * query in the URL! It also parses out the offset for us.
+ */
+export function useSearchQueryInUrl() {
+  const history = useHistory();
+
+  const { query: value } = useParams();
+  const { pathname, search } = useLocation();
+
+  // Parse the query from the location. (We memoize this because we use it as a
+  // dependency in the query-saving hook below.)
+  const parsedQuery = React.useMemo(() => {
+    const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(search);
+    return {
+      value: decodeURIComponent(value || ""),
+      filterToZoneLabel: searchParams.get("zone") || null,
+      filterToItemKind: searchParams.get("kind") || null,
+      filterToCurrentUserOwnsOrWants: searchParams.get("user") || null,
+    };
+  }, [search, value]);
+
+  const offset = parseInt(new URLSearchParams(search).get("offset")) || 0;
+
+  // While on the search page, save the most recent parsed query in state.
+  const isSearchPage = pathname.startsWith("/items/search");
+  const [savedQuery, setSavedQuery] = React.useState(parsedQuery);
+  React.useEffect(() => {
+    if (isSearchPage) {
+      setSavedQuery(parsedQuery);
+    }
+  }, [isSearchPage, parsedQuery]);
+
+  // Then, while not on the search page, use the saved query from state,
+  // instead of the (presumably empty) parsed query from the URL.
+  const query = isSearchPage ? parsedQuery : savedQuery;
+
+  const setQuery = React.useCallback(
+    (newQuery) => {
+      let url = `/items/search`;
+
+      if (newQuery.value) {
+        url += "/" + encodeURIComponent(newQuery.value);
+      }
+
+      const newParams = new URLSearchParams();
+      if (newQuery.filterToItemKind) {
+        newParams.append("kind", newQuery.filterToItemKind);
+      }
+      if (newQuery.filterToZoneLabel) {
+        newParams.append("zone", newQuery.filterToZoneLabel);
+      }
+      if (newQuery.filterToCurrentUserOwnsOrWants) {
+        newParams.append("user", newQuery.filterToCurrentUserOwnsOrWants);
+      }
+
+      // NOTE: We omit `offset`, because changing the query should reset us
+      //       back to the first page!
+      const search = newParams.toString();
+      if (search) {
+        url += "?" + search;
+      }
+
+      // TODO: Tbh would be even nicer for this to be a like... timed thing?
+      // We use replace to avoid spamming the history too much, but sometimes
+      // the user's query meaningfully *does* change without intermediate
+      // navigation, like if they see the results and decide it's the wrong
+      // thing.
+      if (isSearchPage) {
+        history.replace(url);
+      } else {
+        // When you use the search toolbar from the item page, treat it as a
+        // full navigation!
+        history.push(url);
+      }
+    },
+    [history, isSearchPage]
+  );
+
+  // NOTE: We don't provide a `setOffset`, because that's handled via
+  //       pagination links.
+  return { query, offset, setQuery };
+}
+
+export default ItemSearchPageToolbar;