Red Mill · Four Stories on the River · Heritage Holiday Ornament
Red Mill · Four Stories on the River · Heritage Holiday Ornament
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Red Mill. A four-story mill beside a river, its wheel at the side, a stone dam with the falls spilling below, and a green wreath tied in scarlet ribbon hanging on its face for the season. Drawn the way a magazine illustrator of the 1880s would have drawn it, line by line.
Mills built America's towns. Before the railroad, the falls decided where a village went, and whatever mill stood beside them - grist, saw, woolen, whatever the valley needed - was the reason the road bent that way. A mill race carried water from the dam to the wheel; inside were stones, belts and hoppers, and a miller who took his pay as a share of what he ground. Mill towns and mill villages grew up around them all through the early industrial revolution in America.
This one started out as a woolen mill in the 1810s and spent the next century changing trades, the way mills did, until its town saved it as a museum. The red came last. Red was the working color of rural America, cheap iron-oxide pigment in linseed oil, which is why barns are painted red, and why a mill this color looks as if it has always been there.
Our own line drawing in the old-fashioned engraved manner, set in crystal so the cross-hatching holds under the lights; the wreath is the one touch of color. Three inches across, four stories tall.
For mill museums, river-town historical societies, engineers, and everyone whose town still has a Mill Street. Profits go to hunger relief.
Faceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads from across the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. Ships free anywhere in the U.S.
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