Olive Harvest Jacket - M sesami-service Earth Month

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Circa 1800's European grain sacks were handwoven on narrow looms using fibers produced on family farms

Olive Harvest Jacket - M sesami-service Earth MonthOne of one late 18th century France Provenance Cut from a hand woven olive harvest sack, Southern France, 18th century. Made to be filled, dragged, emptied, and filled again across groves and seasons. Olive harvest sacks were produced in farmhouses across Provence and Languedoc, carried freshly picked fruit from tree to press often forty kilos or more in a single load. The cloth was never meant to outlast the harvest, let alone the century. That it