Day: October 26, 2008

Twin Lights Postcards at Alexandra’s Bread

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Alexandra being a fan of all things Twin Lights had these cool Twin Lights Postcards made up.  They are for sale at Alexandra’s Bread for  a meager 75 cents.  That’s short money Homie!  I’m thinking about buying a couple and framing them up for a cool piece of local art.

Twin Lights Postcards at Alexandra’s Bread, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Alexandra’s Bread -Old School Goodness

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

When I stopped by Alexandra’s Bread the other day I noticed the lack of high tech kitchen gadgetry. Everything is done old school.   This scale is out back and when I saw it I initially thought it was just for show until Alexandra started weighing out portions of dried cranberries on it.

No digital scale here baby, just Old School Goodness!

Alexandra’s Bread -Old School Goodness, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Beautiful Industry- Block

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Blocks come in all sizes.  This one happens to be a big one but they come way bigger.

If you look on it’s side there’s a grease fitting.  Without regular greasing the salt water eats these things up.  A little grease goes a long way in extending the lifetime of mechanical equipment on fishing boats (or your vehicle for that matter)

Beautiful Industry- Block, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

The Folly Cove Designers

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

From the Sara Elizabeth website-

“History of the Folly Cove Designers

The Folly Cove Designers grew out of a design course taught by Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios. She lived in Folly Cove, the most northerly part of Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was able to express the local consensus that the world was a beautiful place, and the elements of beauty surround us in nature.

Her block printing thesis grew out of the home industries/arts and crafts movements of the past. The artist/designer of products for home use is separated from the product by machine age technology (and now globalization). Fine art for home use is within our own power. To this end her design course taught an ability to see the design in nature, a set of good design rules (dark and light, sizing, repetition, reflection, etc.), and the craftsmanship of carving the linoleum, and then printing fabric for home use.

On completion of the course the graduate was permitted to submit a design to the jury(selected Designers rotated this responsibility starting in 1943) of the Folly Cove Designers. If it was accepted as displaying the design qualities as taught in the course, then they could carve the design in linoleum and print it for sale as a Folly Cove Design.

The design course started in 1938. In 1940 they had their first public exhibition-in the Demetrios studio. The following year they decided to go public, they called themselves the Folly Cove Designers. Every year they had an opening to present the new designs, and everyone enjoyed the coffee and nisu (Finnish coffee bread). They established a relationship to wholesale their work to the America House of New York which had been established in 1940 by the American Craftsman Cooperative Council. In 1944 they hired Dorothy Norton as an executive secretary to run the business end of the successful young enterprise. In 1945, Lord and Taylor bought non-exclusive rights to five designs which pushed the reputation of the group, and began some national publicity and diverse commissions for their work.”

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Alexandra’s Bread has some of the wall hangings for sale from Sara Elizabeth-