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New this week: Hand-printed table linens, kitchen accessories, French Lavender soap and more
A.H. MERCANTILE COMPANY DISPATCH
Volume 13, Issue 15
May 12, 2006
Terri Osterfeld, editor
WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK
- Hand-printed French design table cloths
- New items in Kitchen & Dining and Home Decor
- Grapefruit soap back in stock, French & Spanish lavender soap now available
- New Arrivals in the Fabric Shop
New Arrivals are always 10% Off the first week!
TABLE LINEN SHOP
Hand Printed French Design Table Cloths
This week we’re pleased to announce the arrival of a new collection of beautiful hand-printed table cloths from Plum Brook.
These linens feature bold, bright colors and attractive novel and floral designs inspired by the Southern French regions of Provence and Cote d’ Azur. Each table cloth is block printed by hand meaning that no two are ever exactly alike. Made from 100% pure Indian cotton, they measure 59 x 59 inches (150 x 150 cm) and are machine washable. The vibrant, casual and classic styles do a great job of dressing up tables both indoors and out and will no doubt be among your favorite table coverings for years to come.
There’s 10 designs in all with a range of colors to choose from. Best of all, as new arrivals, they’re all 10% off this week, so make sure to click over and see them. We know you’ll find several you absolutely love!
Hand-printed Table Cloths
- St Tropez
- Sailboat
- Flip Flop
- Color-Fish
- Printemps (blue)
- Marseilles (green)
- St Maxime (green)
- Marseilles (red)
- St Jean
- Marseilles (red/pumpkin)
KITCHEN AND DINING
In our Kitchen & Dining area by request we have two new additions to two very popular product lines, the Butter Bell French Butter Keepers and the Gloveables fashionable (and fun) household gloves.
Butter Bell French Butter Keeper (burgundy trim)
HOME DECOR / GIFTS AND COLLECTIBLES
This week we have a couple of new items for John Deere fans–one for indoors and one for outdoors.
John Deere Travel Umbrella (pink)
You can also checkout all of the John Deere goodies and collectible we carry, right here
BATH AND BODY SHOP
Grapefruit Soap is Back
After about a month of being out of stock, our seasonal grapefruit soap is back. It was a fairly dry winter which caused our grapefruit crop to come in more slowly than expected. Happily we had a very wet March and early April which our trees seemed to love. We now have a bumper crop of the big yellow fruit and are turning out fresh soap as quickly as we can. If you’d like to order some of this zesty handmade soap, make sure to do it now. The trees have begun to flower which means they drop the remaining fruit and we won’t be able to make any more for a year.
French and Spanish Lavender Soap
We grow more than a dozen varieties of lavender, but only half are suitable for soaps, bath oils and teas (the others are just for show in the gardens). Right now the compact Mediterranean varieties–mainly French and Spanish lavenders are in full bloom, so that’s what we’re using in our bath products.
For those of you who don’t know the different varieties, French and Spanish lavenders produce compact flowers high in lavender oil content. Because of this, these are the kinds you usually find in perfumes, soaps, etc. There are also “spike” varieties of lavender, such as sweet lavender, that produce long slender flowers in early summer and fall, which are also very fragrant, but lower in oil content. Spike lavenders are the kind you see in bouquets, “tussy mussies”, and lots of decorative uses. We use both varieties in our lavender soaps but they produce subtly different bars. The soap made with the compact lavenders tends to be darker and more perfumey, while those made with spike lavenders are lighter and sweeter. Both are wonderful, of course, but it’s fun to note the differences.
We only make our lavender soaps from French and Spanish lavenders from about May to July, because the plants really only bloom once a year. So if you’d like to try this soap, now is the time to do it! You can order it right here:
FABRIC SHOP
This past week we received some really nice novely and theme print fabrics as well as some basic solids that are perfect for clothing and a whole bunch of other sewing projects.
- Inner Faith - ATM-5453 (Robert Kaufman)
- Stargazers (Robert Kaufman)
- A Stitch in Time - Buttons & Scissors (Robert Kaufman)
- Mini Delights - Cards (Robert Kaufman)
- Mini Delights - Gems (Robert Kaufman)
- Hannukiah (Alexander Henry)
- Cotton Solids - pre-shrunk (RJR Fabrics)
- Grace - 6063 (blue) RJR Fabrics)
- Pears and Apples Oilcloth (pink) (Oilcloth International)
- Gingham Check Oilcloth (orange) (Oilcloth International)
20% “Offman” Sale
Once again we’re having a little fun with a sale on two of our favorite fabric mills who happen to have sound-alike names. For a limited time you can get an extra 20% off all fabrics by Hoffman Internatioanl and Robert Kaufman… Which is, of course, why we’re calling it our “20%-offman” sale 
Hoffman’s famous Bali Hand Dyed Batiks and 1895 Marbles, Kaufman’s great novelties and theme prints, florals, patterns, reproductions — pretty much anything and everything you’re looking for — you’ll find it all (and more) from both these mills!
In all, there’s more than 600 fabrics that you can save up to $1.60 per yard during the sale.
To get your discount on all your Hoffman and Kaufman purchases this week, just enter the following coupon code at checkout:
- OFFMAN
So hurry on over to our Fabric Shop and pick up all those great quilting and sewing fabrics from Hoffman and Kaufman now! This coupon expires May 16th and only applies to fabrics in stock, so if you wait, you may miss your chance to save 20% off “man” (and ladies of course)!
You’ll find all the fabrics right here: