To make our wares, we gather materials from flea markets and old shoppes, abandoned houses and torn-down buildings, construction sites, yard sales, and dirty basements. Most of what we use—leather from baseball gloves and drawing-room chairs, and WWII gun slings, pages from outdated medical texts and antique seed catalogs, misplaced photographs of people long dead, fabric from bedding, aprons, window covering—is more than a century old. Every item bears marks of a not-fully-known and not-quite-finished past.

WOOD:

We use wood from old-growth trees, which lived for many, many years packed in dense North American forests surrounded by other trees—the denser the forest, the slower the growth, the tighter the grain. The trees were cut down sometime in the early to mid 1800s and turned into homes - homes that, in many cases existed during the Civil War, The Industrial Revolution, The Jazz Age, WWI, The Carolina Tarheels recording Peg and Awl, The Depression Era, WWII, The Space age and were probably beginning to feel heavy from neglect by the time Leonard Cohen began writing Favourite Game. After decades of dereliction, the piles that were once homes to many, and now eyesores to most are treasures to us. We scoop up the forlorn bits and once again offer them a new life.  The wood, newly cut, with each ring tightly stacked upon the next, betrays its more recent past life, now riddled with ebonized nail holes or burrowed trails to carpenter bees and other insects' long abandoned homes.

From time to time, we find scrap wood at a local ébéniste or pluck it from a storm-broken tree.

TUNG OIL:

Tung oil is an all-natural drying oil made by pressing the seeds of Chinese Tung trees. The nectar of these seeds coats our wood products in organic armor.

MILK PAINT:

We paint our creations with Real Milk Paint, an organic, milk-based paint that contains no lead, no mercury, and no VOCs. So safe that we allowed Søren to help us finish bookends beginning at 2 years of age. 

LEATHER:

The bits of leather we wrap around our handmade journals are gathered willy-nilly from farms and flea markets and the shoppes of cobblers, cordwainers and upholsterers across the world. Much of the leather has not grazed in a pasture for many decades and some, over a century. Leather straps and handles on our bags are obsolete, military-issue gun slings.

FABRIC:

Our antique fabric comes from 19th-century-ladies’ house dresses, curtains, unfinished quilts and scraps and grain sacks found wherever they can be found (which is all over—we’ve spent a long time looking.)

Our waxed canvas and duck cloth is locally sourced from a 5th generation family business. 

DECOUPAGE:

For our decoupage products, we reproduce images from pages discovered in out-of-print volumes, mostly from the 19th century and mostly damaged volumes...

* Please see instructions for product care below

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PAYMENT POLICY

By placing an order from our shoppe, you agree to our policies. 

Most of the objects that we offer are made to order. Upon the full receipt of your payment, we will start processing your order. Each listing gives an up-to-date estimate of the time we require to make the object - this time period excludes the time which it takes to ship. If you need your item sooner, please inquire before placing your order. Depending on inventory, some items may ship straight away.

Canceled orders will be subject to a 10% restocking fee.

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SHIPPING POLICY

Our products ship via USPS with delivery confirmation or via UPS depending upon which is most cost effective.

Peg and Awl is not liable for lost or stolen packages. Peg and Awl will not be held responsible for additional shipping charges if the packages are returned to our workshoppe due to customer absence, customer errors in addresses or package refusal.

For international orders: We are unable to track international orders shipped via USPS once they leave the United States.

Local area pickup is available. If you live in or around Philadelphia and would like to pick up your order at our workshoppe, please contact us prior to placing your order. If the item is in stock, we can arrange for you to come pick it up. If you are ordering an item that is made to order, we will contact you when your item is ready.

Peg and Awl does not offer gift wrapping but each item will be packaged as will soon be depicted in the products photograph. Packages from Peg and Awl do not include an invoice in an effort to save paper.

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RETURN AND EXCHANGE POLICIES

Although each object is described and photographed to the best of our ability, the sourcing of salvaged materials often lends to each product bearing unique marks of its past life. If you receive an object and it is not as you hoped, please let us know and we will do our best to make it right. 

If you would like to exchange an object, please inquire within 10 days following the receipt of the object. be sure to include the following in your package: your name, address, order number, the item you wish to exchange for, and a check for the price difference. Items must be shipped back in the condition in which they were received - with the original tags and packaging

If what you received is as described but you wish to return it, you can do so for store credit or we will issue a refund less 10% restocking fee. We will not refund shipping. The buyer must contact us within 10 days of receiving the item in order to be eligible to return it. The buyer is also responsible for return shipping to our workshoppe.

If the object received is damaged, please contact us within 48 hours with a photograph of the damage incurred to your item. Some marks to wood products may simply be marks of the woods past life and are not considered damage.

Gifts may be returned for store credit only.

Custom orders are final sale and ineligible for return or exchange.

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WHOLESALE

For opening orders, prepayment via Paypal, credit card (Visa/MC/Disc/AmEx) or check is required at the time of order. Production begins upon clearing of funds. Payment upon ship date is available to qualifying retailers for reorders. We have a $500 minimum opening order and a $250 minimum reorder. Minimum quantities per design apply and are stated on the linesheet. As each piece is made by hand to order, there is a 2-6 week minimum fulfillment on all orders. (timeline is dependent upon objects, volume and our current workload) 

We do not drop-ship or offer our products on consignment.

Buyer pays shipping. All orders shipped via UPS or USPS and based on the lowest shipping price. 

Please contact us at pegandawl@me.com for a line sheet and include your website and shop address.

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TRADE DISCOUNTS

Interior designers and architects may qualify for a tiered trade discount based on the order total. Please inquire if you believe that your order may be eligible for a trade discount.

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