Vintage Bread BoxesRustic Amish Woven Wooden Bread Boxes

About a loaf and a half in the Amish Bread Box, 17 by 9 inches and 8 1/2 inches tall. At least two loaves in the Amish Corner Bread Box, 16 by 15 inches and 8 1/2 inches tall. Two large loaves up top in the Large Rustic Bread Box, 17 by 11 1/2 inches and 12 1/2 inches tall, with the rolls or bagels in the pull-out drawer below.

A woven bread box breathes rather than seals, so it stores the loaf in the shade and off the counter rather than keeping it fresh on its own. Keep the bread in its own bag inside the box, or in a linen or cotton bread bag.

Yes. Each bread box has a solid wood lid on two black barn-style hinges at the back, so it lifts with one hand and stays open. There is no lift-off lid and no bread box without a lid.

Allow for the open lid. Open, the Amish Bread Box stands 15 1/4 inches tall and the Amish Corner Bread Box 15 3/4 inches. The Large Rustic Bread Box is 12 1/2 inches tall with the lid closed, so measure the space under the cabinet with its lid open before you order.

Plain, Wine & Blue or Wine & Green. The trim is dyed reed woven in, not painted on, and the plain finish varies a little from box to box because the stain takes differently on wood from different trees.

The Amish Corner Bread Box. Its back is cut to sit against both walls, it measures 16 inches across the front and 15 inches back into the corner, and it needs 15 inches back from the front edge along each wall.

No. Each bread box is woven in its one size with its hinged lid. Custom weaving is held for the standard rectangle, corner, triangle and round shapes, which take a lift-off lid at most, so a custom basket cannot be built as a bread box.

No liner is sewn for a bread box. The loaf rides inside in its own bag.

Yes. Protective feet and an engraved solid brass plate are optional on each bread box's page. The plate takes letters, numbers and basic punctuation in one typeface, up to 22 characters a line on one or two lines.

Shake out the crumbs and wipe it with a dry or slightly damp cloth. A light spray of lemon oil about once a year keeps the wood fed.

Yes. Every bread box ships gift-ready with no prices in the box, and a free gift note can be added at checkout.

No. Each one is handwoven in the vintage style by Old Order Amish families on the Iowa-Missouri border: rattan reed over a wood bottom, with a hardwood rim and a solid wood lid on two black barn-style hinges, signed by the weaver who made it.

A bread box keeps the loaf on the counter under a hinged wood lid. A bread basket brings rolls or a sliced loaf to the table, open or under a lift-off lid, and a cloth liner is sewn for each one.

Old Order Amish families on the Iowa-Missouri border weave each one by hand, and the weaver signs the bottom before it leaves the farm.