Market Bags New Colors

These hand crocheted bags are ideal for market, shopping, the gym, beach. There is an old fashioned nursery rhyme that goes like this: To market to market to buy a fat pig, home again home again jiggity jig. 

Old time England towns always had a central hub of the market place. It was also a place where people looked for work as the wealthy landowners and owners of grand houses came to scout workers of all skills. Those desiring work would congregate in a designated area to be viewed extolling their skills. Anything could be bought or sold at the market place.

Made from a cotton blend. Strong, flexible and folds up to carry in your pocket, purse. 100 % cotton ones are also in the crochet department.

The textile industry especially during the industrial revolution was a great boon for the north west of England from whence the author hails. Wool was indigenous whilst cotton was imported and processed in mills and factories. Higher production yields, work for many from dusk till dawn in what were called working towns as they had the infrastructure for this industry to thrive. Water ways, barges conveyed bails of cotton, wool across country and many other commodities like coal. Children were prized for they were small had small, nimble fingers and hands. Very useful for working the shuttles, tieing off broken threads on looms and they brought much needed money to mill working families. Many workers suffered cotton lung inhaling all the fluff from processing, as workers in coal mines suffered much lung damage and often death.