Packing your own lunch can be a more economical and healthy practice, but carting around a brown or plastic bag is what you did as a kid – not to mention before you focused more on the environment. Shun the flimsy and wasteful options and upgrade to a sturdy, reusable and rugged looking waxed canvas lunch bag. Handmade in the mountain town of Asheville, NC, the Overlap sack is the product of Leigh Anne Hilbert who works with vintage textiles and sturdy materials from her studio and community craft space locally known as The Dry Goods Shop.
Icons of patriotism and nationalism, maritime signals, battlefield rallying devices – flags are more than just symbols, they are storytellers. Celebrating their heritage and craft, a new endeavor working under the banner of Standard Grit hand-makes limited edition flags honoring our Southern vernacular and insignia.
Photos of artwork by David Ettinger. Photos of artist by Chris Nightengale.
Rarely have we seen a Southern artist who demonstrates such breadth of talent as Dolan Geiman, whose portfolio not only holds sculpture, mixed media, and panel paintings, but also contains interesting reproductions of his art in the form of framed paper prints, box prints, and the affordably priced DG Minis.
The products look like they’d be stocked on the shelves of a general store in the 1800s – and probably were. Fortunately for us, they can also be found in similar establishments today. Care kits, oils and ointments from the F.A. Seeds Co. have a timeless feel, but are quite practical. Each concoction is carefully crafted from the finest ingredients by the company’s own chemists. Such is the reputation of the brand that the flagship product, a furniture polish, has been used in the White House since the Taft administration.
East of Nashville on a rural farm in Lascassas, Tennessee, true works of art are being created at HollerDesign. Husband and wife team, Matt and Melissa Alexander, have used their Southern roots to produce meaningful pieces of furniture and light fixtures for the home and life.
