Under the Elder Tree — Organic Eco Tote Bag | Botanical Art | Folklore Nature Gift

Under the Elder Tree is a beautiful organic cotton eco tote featuring original garden photography transformed into painterly art — inspired by an elder tree in a coastal New Jersey garden, the most magical, feared, and beloved tree of the ancient world.

The Druids held the elder sacred — a tree of transformation, regeneration, and the thin veil between worlds. On Midsummer's Eve, folklore says fairies gathered beneath her blossoms to dance in the moonlight. And no one cut an elder tree without first asking permission of her guardian spirit, the Elder Mother — to do otherwise was said to invite misfortune.

The elder is generous as well as magical. Thrushes, robins, waxwings, and starlings feast on her dark autumn berries. For centuries, her flowers have been steeped into cordials and tinctures to ease fever, calm inflammation, and strengthen the body's own defenses — old medicine that still holds up today.

Carry your market haul, your books, your daily essentials in something rooted in old magic and alive with midsummer white.

Made from organic cotton — because the bag that carries your groceries should be as nature-friendly as the garden that inspired it.

Dove & Ink — where faith meets the natural world.

• 100% certified organic cotton 3/1 twill
• Fabric weight: 8 oz/yd² (272 g/m²)
• Dimensions: 16″ × 14 ½″ × 5″ (40.6 cm × 35.6 cm × 12.7 cm)
• Weight limit: 30 lbs (13.6 kg)
• 1″ (2.5 cm) wide dual straps, 24.5″ (62.2 cm) length
• Open main compartment
• Blank product sourced from India

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