foundling

            Betsy Carr is the artist behind Foundling--an accessories line inspired by and created from vintage textiles, papers and ephemera.  Betsy received a degree in Studio Arts a few years ago, but way before that she spent a lot of time playing in attics and that is probably where all this got started.  She lives in a funky little city in the mountains with a husband, a cat and two dogs.

            She’s inspired by old and forgotten things; anything that has faded or tarnished; things that smell faintly of mildew and dust.   She loves repurposing things that have outlived their first purposes.  Her husband jokingly calls them “artifacts” but mostly they are just “junk”.

            In the end, her hope is that the new things made from old things will be loved and worn by people who imagine the adventures those scraps of fabric and buttons and old, brittle pages had before they reached their hands--and that they might take them on some of their own.