I create purses, bags and pillows from vintage barkcloth fabric. Fabric that had it's origins in the 1930s through the 1960s. It's important to bring craft into our social or daily lives, because it connects us to our past and to each other. It reminds us of the items our grandparents had, often with warm memories of our childhoods. In fact, my business name "Mercedes Sherwood" is an homage to both my grandmothers, Marie Mercedes Smith and Constance Sherwood Cugle.