Where To Find Baker’s Twine In Metro Van
Wired and curly have been the most popular ribbons for adding pizzazz to presents; now bakers twine is giving them a run for their money—here’s where to buy it locally.
HOLIDAY 2012 | Blame it on Kinfolk—the magazine that celebrates all things beautiful, simple and uncontrived—or on the makers and lovers of plain-made and plainly presented goods in places like Portland or Brooklyn, or even Etsy, but bakers twine, the string commonly used by pastry shops worldwide to tie up their boxes of baked goods in a way that makes them easy to carry, is the ribbon du jour for stylish Christmas presents.
Ordinary white bakers twine works perfectly well for this purpose, of course, but the most fashionable gifts, like the ones pictured at the top of this story by Finnish-Australian stylist Maria Laitinen at scandifoodie.blogspot.com, are wrapped multiple times with a fancier version of bakers twine, which comes in a multitude of colours.
Where to Find Bakers Twine Locally
In Metro Vancouver, we found a few large spools of coloured bakers twine at Room 6 in Deep Cove, 240 yards for $18; Delish General Store (online at delishgeneralstore.bigcartel.com) has 10-yard lengths of Knot & Bow in a variety of colours for $2.00 each; Michaels has Sew Easy packages with three skeins (8.7 yards per skein) in three colours for $6.99; IKEA sells Julmys cord (a paper version of bakers twine) in three colours, 33 yards for $3.99. —Annabel Lee
Thank you for including Delish General Store in your round-up of locally-available baker’s twine! I have some new amazing twine from Divine Twine: Christmas, which is green, red and white, Peppermint, which is red, pink and white, and AirMail – blue, red and white! Super sweet. I haven’t listed it yet but have been selling out at markets in the Lower Mainland.
I appreciate your mention!
Tamara
We love your little general store!—eds