For those tired of itty bitty bags, Emily Riding’s big basket packs maximum impact.
. Its hero piece was a hand-woven bell-shaped basket skirt that she created with her grandmother, Judy Ridings. Though Emily, a native Kentuckian grew up amidst the craft, it took awhile for her to get around to exploring it. First she had to get over a toddler-age obsession with construction boots, and then she had to shed the other fascinations that followed. The basket weaving bug hit her at high-school age and she’s yet to recover.
Ridings, who is sensitive to the history and stories of objects, many of them salvaged, finds inspiration in unexpected places. The designer recently moved house and it was packing boxes, of all things, that inspired a bag that’s the polar opposite of the ever shrinking minibag, . Ridings says that her enormous bag is as frivolous as the more lilliputian ones; they’re all designed for dreamers.
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