Olive Harvest Jacket - M sesami-service made from heavy herringbone-weave hemp

made from heavy herringbone-weave hemp for durability

they were built to last across a lifetime — and often did

Approximately 15"x15"

250 makers have built this jacket

long sleeve and short sleeve variations

Olive Harvest Jacket - M sesami-service made from heavy herringbone-weave hempOne 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