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Winter Market Vendor Spotlight: Sans Map Bags

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VTG CLT is popping up on November 15th at The Fillmore for the fourth annual Winter Market! Come out and spend the day shopping with over 60 of the region’s best vintage & handmade vendors. Admission to the market is FREE from 11am-6pm! Get in an hour early at 10am for $5 to get first pick of all the goods.

Leading up to the market, we’ll be sharing vendor spotlight posts that give you a chance to meet some of our amazing vendors in advance of the market. We are really excited to welcome back Corey from Sans Map Bags to the Vintage Charlotte Winter Market. We are in love with her sophisticated, dreamy totes and bags. Here is Corey with her story and some sneak peeks of what she’s bringing to market:

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The name Sans Map comes from the French word Sans, meaning ‘without’, and the English word Map. It all began several years ago while I was searching for vintage furniture after my husband and I moved back from living abroad in his hometown in the south of France. I happened to stumble across a beautiful vintage Italian-made Necchi sewing machine and even though I had no idea how to sew, and really no use for it at the time, felt an undeniable need to make it mine.  Twenty dollars, a professional tune-up, lots of googling and many broken needles later, my fingers were zooming down a road that would eventually lead to me creating Sans Map Bags.

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I am intentional in my use of repurposed vintage garments, vintage fabrics, reclaimed materials and natural fibers and organic/recycled fabrics. Focused on small batch and limited run editions, I incorporate original stitching and seams, pockets, and natural leather imperfections into my work which lends to the unique quality of my bags. All of the creating magic happens in my home studio here in Charlotte, NC. After trading busy city life in Brooklyn, NY for sunnier days in the south, I continue to draw on my surroundings as inspiration. A traveller and a dreamer, I find endless beauty in the complexity of cities and the simplicity of nature. Sans Map is my philosophy: living life as it comes, taking the uncharted path and embracing the unexpected. Living life without a map…
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WINTER MARKET VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: Eagle + Arrow & Good Grief Vintage

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Our vendor spotlights are a great way to get to know some of our vendors before our Winter Market on November 15th at The Fillmore Charlotte. We are excited to welcome a collaboration booth featuring Eagle + Arrow and Good Grief Vintage to this season’s market.  Read on to hear from Abi and Misha about their businesses and what they are bringing with them to the market:

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Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 12.01.39 PMAbi: Eagle and Arrow is a collection of bags made from responsibly resourced leather.  I love the look, feel and longevity of leather but I think it’s important not to support factory farming. Because of this model, no bag will ever be the same. Most of the leather I get is just small pieces, so once I have a color I probably won’t have it again.I’m going to have some little bags for kids to keep tiny treasures in. Also, after many request I’m going to make fanny packs!! I’ve been sewing since I was 10, it’s my art. I never use patterns, and always try to let the material speak for itself.Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 11.25.43 AM Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 11.24.59 AM Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 11.25.27 AM
Misha: Good Grief Vintage is a globally infused, Woodstock-inspired, 90s-loving, modernly styled online and pop-up vintage clothes and accessory shop.
Abi: Misha and I are also going to do a collection of updated vintage clothes!
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