The
Folk Traditions Store
In Savannah's Historic District
12 Price Street (1/2 block south of Bay Street). Phone: 912-341-8898.
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In Savannah's Historic District 12 Price Street (1/2 block south of Bay Street). Phone: 912-341-8898.
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The Folk Traditions Store is founded on the belief that traditional skills restore roots, significance, harmony and balance to modern lives. Our products help our customers to learn, experience, and improve skills that enriched the daily lives of our ancestors. We emphasize traditions that flourished in the thought, language and instruction of local families and communities long ago. They carry the meanings of the words in our language today. They convey a level of cooperation more intimate than technological devices allow. They create balance by restoring whole-body activities to lives that have become increasingly passive. The traditions you master are the keys to your life equation. Though only a small section of a chain book store, folk traditions are a massive topic. We emphasize products that the proprietors have special knowledge of, that are unavailable elsewhere in Savannah and that relate to a broad spectrum of local traditions. We vary our offerings by each upcoming Savannah festival. As we develop deeper relations with our clientele we will expand offerings in growing traditions that need continuing support and contract those with less appeal. We strive to be a good neighbor to all in Savannah who support local, folk traditions. We are generous in our referrals to Savannah’s museums, colleges and independent businesses. As we grow, our newsletter will expand its features on local accomplishments. Savannah is renowned for protecting mysterious and gentle traditions. Our visitors come here to enrich their lives. We sell more than objects to look at and memories to fade. Our customers take home the very life activities of traditional Savannah. We draw especially on the Native American, Colonial English, Celtic, Jewish and African roots that existed in the minds and habits of Savannah’s founders. We offer fine, hand-crafted traditional musical instruments, books for traditional storytelling and fiber arts with traditional designs. We sell books, sheet music, CDs, videotapes and computer programs selected to facilitate learning and enjoying traditional arts. As we grow, we will provide workshops, performances and discussions where novices, journeymen and masters of traditional arts can interact. We encourage all levels of knowing about folk traditions. For some it is enough to read about or possess products of traditional crafts. Others want to make their own products using as much of traditional methods as is practical for their situation. The benefits of knowing a tradition are not restricted to a complete escape from modernism. For example, the proprietors once led the construction of a log shelter along the Appalachian Trail. Even nails were considered too modern for the project. But the logs were cut by power saw in a remote location from the site and hauled within a mile of it by truck. Knitting and sewing machines are only a few generations old, but place their users immensely closer to the experience of hand crafting than buying factory-made garments in a chain store. And though we encourage live, acoustic music and do not amplify in-store performances, we offer audio and video CDs for learning and listening pleasure. Customers who desire long term relationships with The Folk Traditions Store can purchase FTS Member cards that entitle them to discounts, the e-mail newsletter of Savannah’s folk tradition events, and annual reports of their personal purchases and interests related to folk traditions. |
Preserve a tradition. Grow roots, significance, harmony and balance.
Copyright © 2003-2005
The Folk Traditions Store, David Dirlam, Webmaster
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