Olive Harvest Jacket - M sesami-service keeping this cultural heritage alive

keeping this cultural heritage alive through generations

It is a finishing process that requires as much skill as the weaving itself — too little and the pile lies flat

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

The weave is dense and durable

Early 19th century heavy linen-wool

Olive Harvest Jacket - M sesami-service keeping this cultural heritage aliveOne 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