Rag Trader

Pittsburgh’s Rag Trader makes pendants from vintage mold designs that are 40 to 150 years old. Other items are made from antique found items like pocket watches, cameos, keys, bottles, keyholes or whatever odds and ends are found at the flee market or in the barn.

In Rag Trader’s Words:

I’ve always had a fascination with old things. This passion developed, I think, from living on an old deteriorating farm with my 9 siblings. Being the youngest of 5 girls, I never complained about wearing hand-me-downs. I even loved wearing 70’s outfits to highschool in the 90’s. (Now I sell vintage clothing in a store front in Pittsburgh as well as online).

I would often wander the woods around our farm digging up antique bottles and old odds and ends. I always thought these were the most amazing and mysterious treasures – when really these were trash dumps left by farmers in the early 1900’s. I think the most beautiful objects are covered in rust or patina or – better yet – broken.