July 2008
thE CouNtRy StoRE
Indigo Traders celebrates fifth
anniversary with second store
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
If you’ve shopped in Multnomah
Village over the past five years you’ve
undoubtedly come across the Mediter-
ranean textile store, Indigo Traders.
Anne swears by their honey bath soap!
Well last month, co-owners Karla Bean
and Samir Naser announced the open-
ing of a new store across the street,
Indigo Bath.
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“By giving our popular bath towels
and bath products a more suitable space
across the street, we are able to expand
our cooking, dinnerware, bedding
and textile lines in Indigo Traders,”
explained Naser.
The signature product of Indigo Bath
is the legendard Turkish cotton bath
towel called a pestemal (pronounced
pesh-ta-mahl). The store also carries
the entire line of Dani (a company
from Bend, OR) bath products, special-
izing in clean burning soy candles and
organic lotions and soaps.
New at Indigo Traders are two lines
of recycled glass dinnerware, organic
free-trade olive oils, and organic cot-
ton baby clothing as a move to become
more eco-friendly.
“Our passion has always been to of-
fer hand-made traditional textiles and
beautiful works of art to our valued
customers,” said Bean. “Samir and
I are always trying to bring in new
items.” Indigo Bath is located at 7881
SW Capitol Hwy. Indigo Traders is
located at 7878 SW Capitol Hwy. For
more information, visit their website
www.indigotraders.com.
Volunteers needed at Multnomah
Village Farmers’ Market
If you’ve got a couple of extra hours
on Thursday afternoons or evenings,
Eamon Molloy could use a few extra
To Advertise Call Don or Harry at
503-244-6933
hands. Molly is manager of the new
Multnomah Village Farmers’ Market.
“In a nutshell, volunteering is pretty
easy,” said Molloy. “The first shift (1:30
to 3:30 p.m.) is all about setting up:
unloading canopies, tables and chairs
from the truck, helping vendors get set
up, putting out signs and setting up the
info booth.”
According to Molloy, the next two
shifts (3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 7:30
p.m.) are during market hours. The
work involves staffing the info booth,
answering questions like “Where is the
bathroom?,” and conducting customer
counts. The last shift (7:00 to 8:30 p.m),
which overlaps with the end of the
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