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Market Baskets
backpacks back in stock!
market baskets
$190.00
3 lovely, tightly woven nesting canisters for home, kitchen and pantry. Store your potatoes and onions in the pantry, set on the counter full of wooden spoons, set your plants inside...
Sold Out - $85.00
OUT OF STOCK UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2021 Our wonderful over sized backpack, with leather straps and metal buckles, will go everywhere with you! Stylish on bike rides, jaunty at the market,...
$10.00
These lovely and simple small wooden butter spreaders are hand carved in Floyd County VA by Glendon Boyd, a fourth generation Appalachian woodworker, dedicated to the traditional woodwork of the...
$150.00
Amazing, over sized home storage basket. Stand-alone, perfect in the corner of a room holding blankets. Rustic grass weave. 19x29
$18.00
Kenaf is a very absorbent strain of hemp; by inoculating it with microbes, we create a medium for introducing fermentation bacteria into kitchen scraps; it can also be added to...
$120.00
This amazing backpack has lasted me for 20 years- and gone around the world- and now we have a beautiful version to offer you! Leather topped with a buckle, with...
$60.00
A wonderful, simple market basket, handwoven from date palm. Perfect for market, laundry or beach. Sturdy and flexible, with thick leather handles, attached with extra leather tab for security. 14"...
$65.00
These are the ultimate traditional market basket-- hand woven sisal handles are the easiest for the craftspeople to make, and are used all around the house in Morocco. Palm woven,...
Medina Mercantile offers high quality, well designed goods for your home and lifestyle. We are committed to working with artisans around the world, and in the United States, to support artists and crafts people directly. We look for products that are beautiful, primarily, and beautifully made, but we don't buy anything that is not made with the highest integrity-- our overseas suppliers work with women's collectives in Bangladesh, farmer artisan weavers in Morocco, and local artists close to our home in the Blue Ridge of Virginia.
Today I registered my son for soccer, followed up with customers, planned for our Fall season, lined up a lawn mowing job for my son, the budding entrepreneur, and considered what to do with my daughter when we go to NY Now in August. There is no division, here, between our working and our personal lives, and that is true for all of us, in any field. We have a lot of young families in our area, a lot of new babies born every year, and I, of course, give baskets to the new moms. Not because I have so many lying around, but because they are so genuinely useful! I always give our double handled French Market Basket,...
Mint Tea is vital to the social life of Morocco- a quick visit leads to trays of mint gunpowder tea heaped with sugar. Mint leaves are carted around Marrakesh precariously heaped being donkeys. Traditionally, tea glasses are made in Fez from recycled coke bottles, the regional style of glass. INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon loose Chinese gunpowder green tea5 cups boiling water3 to 4 tablespoons sugar, or to taste1 large bunch fresh mint (1 ounce)Special equipment : a 1- to 1 1/2-quart teapot PREPARATION Put tea in teapot and pour in 1 cup boiling water, then swirl gently to warm pot and rinse tea. Strain out and discard water, reserving tea leaves in pot.Add remaining 4 cups boiling water to tea and...
