We’ll be at our regular booth at Wimberley Market Days, booth 46. If you’ve never been to Wimberley Market Days, now is the perfect time of year to make the trip. The weather won’t be any better than it is now.
- Date: Saturday, April 3, 2010
- Time: 7:00am - 3:00pm
- Location: Booth 46
- Street: 601 FM 2325
- City/Town: Wimberley, Texas
Emma Lee Turney’s Round Top Folk Art Fair & Creative Market: March 31 - April 3, 2010
The Round Top Folk Art Fair & Creative Market, featuring contemporary artisans in many areas of interest including woodcarvers, tinsmiths, custom and twig furniture makers, needle workers, creators of folk dolls, custom floor cloths, bird houses, paintings, country-style fashions, is a source for custom-made accessories, all to enhance the country lifestyle.
The majority of Folk Art Fair exhibitors work in original, colonial and traditional styles. Many have their work represented in Folk Art Museums and gallery collections throughout the nation and each is an established artist with his own collector following. This setting offers the opportunity to add decorative accessories both important and with a touch of whimsy.
The new air-conditioned show barn opened in Spring 2006 and is an attractive setting for exhibitors to show off their best work. There are acres of free parking, plus delicious food served by Scotty and Friends, Round Top!
http://www.roundtopfolkartfair.com/
- March 31 - April 3, 2010
- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Round Top Arts Center at the edge of Round Top
- 1235 Hwy 237
- Round Top, Texas
Four times a year, 90 to 100 vendors selling arts, crafts, food, clothing, plants, collectibles, antiques and other items of interest gather in downtown Seguin for Trade Days. Vendors set up in the street around Central Park. Entertainment, a free walking tour of historic sites and fun for the kids is also available.
Come visit Tru-Tex Antique Prints at booth 64 on River Street in downtown Seguin, Texas.
- Satuday, March 27, 2010
- 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Seguin, Texas
Tru-Tex Antique Prints is now part of the social networking revolution! Well, we’re trying anyways. Now you can follow us on Facebook. We’ll be posting a schedule of events so you can come visit us in person.
Labels are not only beautiful and diverse, but they also contain the history of our nation and its people within their graphics. Collecting labels can be fun and addictive. Many people collect a particular subject, such as Native Americans, animals, or pinups. Others collect based upon geographic region, a particular product, or simply the beautiful art and graphics. Whatever the reason, label collecting possibilities are plentiful.
For more information about the history of labels and label collection, we recommend visiting the Antiques Roadshow Web site.
Some early attempts at planting citrus for commercial production were made in the Galveston, Houston, and Beaumont areas in the early 1920s, but they were unsuccessful because of frost damage. Commercial growth was primarily restricted to the Rio Grande Valley area for this reason.
Commercial planting began in the Rio Grande Valley around 1910 and production of these crops in 1920. The work for these fields was provided by Mexican laborers who came to the United States to escape the poverty and the cruelty of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Many of the early laborers had been part of the Mexican elite before coming to Texas.
Over the years, hurricanes and severe freezes have created many setbacks for commercial citrus and vegetable crops. Today, the number of producers and packinghouses in the Texas Rio Grande Valley has been reduced considerably.
Today’s fruits and vegetables are shipped in mass-produced cardboard boxes, but historically, growers, packers, and shippers used wooden crates to transport their fruit and vegetables. On one end of the crate, a colorful paper label was pasted to designate who or where the produce came from.
Texas citrus labels date from the 1920s through the 1960s. The largest number of these labels that exists today date primarily in the 1940s and 1950s. There are fewer Texas labels available than there are California labels because label collecting wasn’t always a popular pastime in Texas. In California, however, people have been collecting labels since 1890 when young boys collected and traded them like baseball cards. Unfortunately, in Texas, most labels were destroyed when their usability expired.
Other regions known for their fruit and vegetable labels are Florida (dating back to 1904) and Arizona (dating back to the 1890s). Washington, Oregon, and Colorado are also know specifically for their beautiful apple, pear, cherry, and plum labels.
Another source of beautiful labels and rich history is cans. From the late 1900s to the 1930s, there were several large canneries, especially on the East and West coasts. Often the canneries were founded or operated by immigrants, and it’s not unlikely that you’ll find instructions written in old German or other foreign languages on these early labels.
Many early canneries were family operations, and they displayed the family name or a picture of a family member on the can labels. Large printing companies eventually developed stock labels, so the same graphic would appear on the labels of more than one canner or packing company. Only the text on these labels was revised for each individual company.