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By Elyse Major
Garden Variety A designer draws inspiration from Rhode Island’s harvest season for a line of linens
Leah Ammerman loves to draw. The artist behind Cricicis Designs, she doesn’t need fancy pens and often relies on Sharpies to get the juices flowing. Two years ago, she was hired as the designer for Stock Culinary Goods in Providence to work on the website, advertising, window displays, and a few product ideas. Around the same
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time, her longtime partner was setting up a screenprinting studio in Westerly and Ammerman began playing around with lighthouse designs, which resulted in tea towels for the store. Stock owner Jan Dane mentioned always wanting Rhode Island’s harvest calendar printed on a series of tea towels and the two got busy.
“We started by pouring over the Farm Fresh Rhode Island harvest calendar,” says Ammerman, who notes that many of the one dozen illustrations were drawn and printed just before the beginning of their respective month. “That allowed me to really shop at farmers markets and have these fruits and vegetables in my hand for inspiration for the drawings.”
Photo courtesy of Cricicis Design
Radishes in June Rhode Island Harvest Tea Towel
