{"product_id":"claras-harvest-autumn-wreath","title":"Clara's Harvest Autumn Wreath","description":"\u003c!-- =====================================================\n     WHITAKER HARVEST WREATH — PRODUCT DESCRIPTION\n     CSS-Prefix: .ch-pdp__\n     Drop into Shopify product description (HTML mode)\n     ===================================================== --\u003e\n\u003cstyle\u003e\n@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Playfair+Display:wght@400;700;900\u0026family=Lora:wght@400;500;600;700\u0026display=swap');\n.ch-pdp__container {\n  font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, serif !important;\n  color: #2B2723 !important;\n  line-height: 1.7 !important;\n  max-width: 720px !important;\n  margin: 0 auto !important;\n}\n.ch-pdp__hero-quote {\n  font-family: 'Playfair Display', Georgia, serif !important;\n  font-style: italic !important;\n  font-size: 20px !important;\n  line-height: 1.5 !important;\n  color: #3d3831 !important;\n  text-align: center !important;\n  padding: 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No beginning and no end. That is why it goes on the door. It means: we are still here. Come in.”\n  \u003cspan class=\"ch-pdp__hero-quote-author\"\u003e— Clara Whitaker, wreath maker, Waitsfield, Vermont\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- Intro --\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__intro\"\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWhitaker Harvest Wreath\u003c\/strong\u003e is assembled entirely by hand, one at a time, by Clara Whitaker, 71, and her apprentice Nell Hargrove in a converted dairy shed in Waitsfield, Vermont. Every bloom, ribbon and berry is placed and wired individually — no jig, no production line, no two ever identical. And because of a promise Clara made in 1997, \u003cstrong\u003eevery wreath you buy pays for a second one she gives away free\u003c\/strong\u003e to a family who lost someone this year. More than 4,000 have gone out that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- Variants --\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"ch-pdp__h2\"\u003eChoose Your Wreath (all hand-assembled, no two alike)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"Whitaker Harvest wreath on the door\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4272\/4619\/files\/hf_20260728_205009_ff5cb6d0-5712-4b2d-a7eb-c6be0dd81cc6.png?v=1785275648\" class=\"ch-pdp__photo\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__photo-caption\"\u003eFour designs, one pair of hands — and one promise attached to every single order\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__variants\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__variant\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"ch-pdp__variant-title\"\u003e🌻 The Sunflower Wagon Wheel — Sunflowers \u0026amp; Buffalo Check (Bestseller)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__variant-desc\"\u003eA black iron wagon wheel with a sweep of full-headed sunflowers across one corner, eucalyptus and boxwood trailing out of it, finished with a double bow — buttercup yellow layered over black-and-white buffalo check. The brightest of the four and the first to sell out every year. Clara on why she keeps making it: \u003cem\u003e“It’s the loudest hello I know how to make.”\u003c\/em\u003e Sunflowers were the first thing she ever wired to a ring, in October 1997, for reasons she’ll tell you further down this page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__variant\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"ch-pdp__variant-title\"\u003e🎃 The Thankful Wreath — Ruffled Ribbon \u0026amp; Hand-Lettered Sign\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__variant-desc\"\u003eThe most labour-intensive of the four: sage burlap, pumpkin print, orange plaid and buffalo check ruffled in layer by layer, loop by loop, all the way around a deep ring — then a hand-lettered wood sign reading \u003cstrong\u003eThankful\u003c\/strong\u003e set into the centre, with mini pumpkins and orange berry clusters tucked through. Roughly 140 individual ribbon loops per wreath. The one people buy for the door they open on Thanksgiving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__variant\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"ch-pdp__variant-title\"\u003e🍂 The Pumpkin Rose Wagon Wheel — Roses, Pumpkins \u0026amp; Ferns\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__variant-desc\"\u003eThe same black iron wheel, dressed the other way: burnt-orange roses, small pumpkins, autumn ferns and copper maple leaves, finished with a layered pumpkin-print and plaid bow. Warmer and softer than the sunflower version — the quieter twin. Clara’s own favourite, which she’ll admit only if you ask twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__variant\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"ch-pdp__variant-title\"\u003e🍁 The Maple Harvest Ring — Full Leaf \u0026amp; Pumpkin Circle\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__variant-desc\"\u003eThe classic circle, and the only one with no ribbon at all. Maple leaves in every shade from butter to rust, wound the whole way round with mini pumpkins, orange berries and eucalyptus. Nothing shouting, nothing to fade in the sun. The most understated of the four, and the one that stays right where it is from September clear through November.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__p\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhichever wreath you choose, the making is identical: same hand-wired construction, same two pairs of hands, same promise. Clara sets the structure; Nell places the final stems. And the same order funds one free wreath either way.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- The Difference --\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"ch-pdp__h2\"\u003eWhat Makes It Different\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__p\"\u003eMost autumn wreaths sold today are machine-assembled on a jig — identical spacing, hot glue that fails in the first frost, a hollow back where the frame shows through. They look fine from a distance, but they were made for a shop wall, not for a door. A Whitaker wreath is built the way New England makers used to build things: slowly, by one person, to outlast the season it was bought for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"A Whitaker harvest wreath, hand-assembled in the Waitsfield shed\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4272\/4619\/files\/hf_20260728_222814_c2de7232-d784-4cf2-b855-f819aab9a025.png?v=1785277798\" class=\"ch-pdp__photo\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__photo-caption\"\u003ePlaced one at a time, by hand — “firm enough to hold, loose enough that the stem breathes”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__features\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"ch-pdp__features-title\"\u003eBuilt the way it should be:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ch-pdp__features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBuy one, one is given\u003c\/strong\u003e — every wreath sold funds a second, made in the same shed and left free on the doorstep of a family in mourning. 4,000+ given since 1997. Clara has never taken a wage from it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWired, not glued\u003c\/strong\u003e — every bloom, pumpkin and ribbon loop fixed individually by hand. Slower, but it survives a January ice storm without shedding. \u003cem\u003e“Glue fails in the cold. Wire does not.”\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWeather-honest materials\u003c\/strong\u003e — colour-fast, all-weather florals and ribbon chosen over four seasons of trial specifically because they hold their colour through frost, rain and full afternoon sun. This is a wreath for a real door, not a display shelf.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBuilt in the round\u003c\/strong\u003e — no hollow back, no exposed frame, no bare patch where the hanger sits. The side that faces your neighbours is finished like the side that faces the door.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNever twice the same\u003c\/strong\u003e — no jig, no template, no spacing chart. Two wreaths of the same design leaving the same shed on the same morning are visibly different objects.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo pairs of hands\u003c\/strong\u003e — Clara’s structure, Nell’s final composition. This season only, every wreath carries both.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- Specs --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__specs\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"ch-pdp__specs-title\"\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"ch-pdp__specs-table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDiameter\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\" (56 cm) — sized for a standard front door\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eApprox. 5\" (13 cm), built in the round\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBase\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWagon Wheel designs: powder-coated black iron wheel. Thankful \u0026amp; Maple Harvest: reinforced wire ring\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eConstruction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eIndividually hand-wired — no hot glue, no foam, no staples\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterials\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAll-weather colour-fast florals, foliage and berries; mini pumpkins; wired ribbon in burlap, plaid, buffalo check and pumpkin print (Thankful adds a hand-lettered wood sign)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eApprox. 2.9 lbs (1.3 kg); wagon wheel designs approx. 4.2 lbs (1.9 kg)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePlacement\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFront door, interior wall, barn door or fireplace; covered outdoor use recommended\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrigin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHand-assembled in Waitsfield, Vermont, USA\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCare\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDust gently with a soft brush; fluff ribbon loops by hand each season. Bring indoors January–August to extend life. No sprays or sealants needed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- The story --\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"ch-pdp__h2\"\u003eThe Story Behind the Shed\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__story-block\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn October 1997, Clara Whitaker’s daughter June died three weeks after her nineteenth birthday. For eleven days afterwards Clara did not leave the house. What finally moved her was small and strange: from the kitchen window she noticed that the front door was bare. The flowers people had sent were dead in their cellophane. From the road, the house looked like nobody lived there anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe went outside in her coat, cut what was left of the sunflowers June had planted along the south fence in a crooked line she’d refused to straighten, and wired them into a circle. She hung it on the door because she could not think what else to do with her hands. \u003cstrong\u003e“I wasn’t decorating anything. I was telling the road that somebody was still in here. That we hadn’t gone.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe next spring, a woman two towns over lost her son. Clara didn’t know her. She made a wreath, drove it over, left it on the step without knocking, and went home. Twenty-nine autumns later she keeps the names in a hardbound notebook on the shelf above the bench — funeral directors send them, hospice nurses send them, sometimes a neighbour just knocks. \u003cstrong\u003eMore than 4,000 wreaths given away, and the paid ones exist to fund the free ones.\u003c\/strong\u003e “The wreaths pay for the wreaths,” she says, as though that settles it. In the shed, it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis October is different. Arthritis has moved into both of Clara’s hands, and there are mornings when she must stop and wait for the stiffness to ease. \u003cem\u003e“I can still make them. But I can feel that I am making the last ones. The hands know before you do.”\u003c\/em\u003e Her apprentice Nell Hargrove, 24, first met one of these wreaths at eleven years old — anonymously, on her own front door, the week after her father died. She spent thirteen years not knowing who left it. She works beside Clara every morning now, and next autumn the bench and the notebook are hers. \u003cstrong\u003eThis is Nell’s first season. It is also Clara’s last.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNell handles the online shop and reads customers’ letters aloud to Clara in the evenings. Every wreath ships from the shed, wrapped by hand. \u003cstrong\u003eClara keeps the price low on purpose — she wants these on doors, not in storage.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- Guarantee --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-pdp__guarantee\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"ch-pdp__guarantee-title\"\u003e100% Satisfaction Guarantee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ch-pdp__guarantee-text\"\u003eHang it on your door and live with it through October. If it isn’t the most beautiful thing you have ever put on your door — for any reason — send it back within 30 days for a full refund, no questions asked. The wreath your order paid for stays exactly where it is. Clara has stood behind every wreath that left the shed for twenty-nine years. This one is no different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- Closing line --\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center !important; font-style: italic !important; color: #6F675E !important; margin-top: 28px !important;\" class=\"ch-pdp__p\"\u003eHand-made in Waitsfield, Vermont · Every wreath bought funds one given free · Clara’s final season, strictly limited · Ships within 3–5 business days · Delivery 3–10 days\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marlow Market","offers":[{"title":"Thankful Wreath","offer_id":53275576762635,"sku":null,"price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pumpkin Rose Wagon","offer_id":53275576795403,"sku":null,"price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Sunflower Wagon Wheel","offer_id":53275576828171,"sku":null,"price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Maple Harvest Ring","offer_id":53275576860939,"sku":null,"price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4272\/4619\/files\/hf_20260728_221631_d3820b03-dba9-4178-a93d-f65c25d66edd.png?v=1785277278","url":"https:\/\/cedarandtinco.com\/products\/claras-harvest-autumn-wreath","provider":"CedarAndTin Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}