Timeless & Daughters, makers of the Burden Cloth

Timeless logo photo, grasping a loop of the Burden Cloth

Timeless & Daughters

To e-mail us, click here.
founded 1989
P.O. Box 824, Eugene, OR 97440
telephone: (541) 689-2123

Founded by Carol Jacobs (1924 - 2007), inventor of the Burden Cloth




Now shop Timeless products online using credit, debit, or cash from your account through PayPal!
Visa logoMasterCard ;pgpAmerican Express logoDiscover card logoeCheck logoPayPal logo

New from Timeless & Daughters--Healing Herbals from Timeless & Daughters

Like the Burden Cloth, our herbal remedies have decades of use. All our herbals are made using permacultured & organic whole dried herbs, processed into appropriate natural media for their specific purpose.

  • A jar of Green Comfort treats bruises, sprains, and every day strained muscles.Green Comfort bruise & sprain salve--fast healing for soft tissue injuries, new or old
    helps relieve shingles outbreaks
    --in organic palm oil: $7--1 oz. jar
  • MindSoothe headache balm: rub at hairline pulse points
    $4--1/8 oz. vial; or three for $10
  • UnBurn Gold minor burn relief & healing
    $10--4 oz. recyclable plastic spray bottle
  • HerbaLiniment chronic pain relief & cramp rub, ideal for deep-tissue therapeutic massage
    $12--2.8 oz. recycled aluminum spray bottle

Timeless & Daughters accepts snail mail (check or money order) and e-mail orders for all our healing herbals.

To order by e-mail: click here to send e-mail to Timeless
request the herbal(s) and quantity you want. We will e-mail you a PayPal invoice for your total order including shipping (shipping for Herbal orders is $20 up to 8 items, USPS Priority Mail including insurance & delivery confirmation). Orders usually ship within 10 days.

To order by mail: Make check or money order (including shipping) payable to "Timeless & Daughters"; enclose with a note listing your order specifics to
Timeless & Daughters
P.O. Box 824
Eugene, OR 97440-0824

The Burden Cloth, our flagship product

  • As seen in the user-recommended Cool Tools review (since August 2009)
  • One of Organic Gardening magazine's "Top 50 Tools We Can't Live Without" (March 2001)

What's a Burden Cloth?

Folks have carried stuff around in a chunk of old cloth for millennia. We take recycled or remnant cloth, reinforce the edges, and add loops for handles--that's the Burden Cloth...updated for the 21st century. That same chunk of cloth is now much easier to use, lasts a lot longer, and stores easily on a hook, a nail, or a shelf.

The Gardener's Best Friend

Save time in the garden: weed onto a Burden Cloth, gather up the loops, dump weeds in the compost, and hang your Burden Cloth on a nail!

Lay the Burden Cloth out and toss your stuff on it.As you gather the handles up, the Burden Cloth encompasses your stuff tidily.Its loop handles let you tote bulky loads easily.And offloading your load is even easier than that.

Pruning, brush trimmings, hedge clippings, autumn leaves, all your yardwork tasks go quicker: a happy customer recently told us, "It makes everything lighter, easier, faster--it's great!" Last winter, a customer bragged to others that the Farm Size Burden Cloth had been invisible under the heap of brambles, but, "I gathered up the four loops, and lo! the whole thing went in one load."

Once you're done with your chore, simply hang your Burden Cloth on a hook or nail and enjoy some leisure. Hey, it's a nice afternoon for reading.

Tools Have a Right to Be Beautiful...

The commonest complaint Carol heard is: "It's too beautiful to get it dirty!" (A customer even mentioned that at her memorial.) Mom (or, as she was known to the next generation, GrandCarol) always said that tools have a right to be beautiful, and still deserve to be used. Every Burden Cloth has been pre-washed and shrunk during manufacture, so if it gets dirty, wash it. Wash 'em whenever they need it, by hose or machine. Note: if you leave a Burden Cloth sitting out with weeds or leaves on it for a while, wash it when you find it. That'll keep it lasting longer (mold and mildew eat some fibers). Also, a shot of white vinegar in the wash is hard on spores but easy on fabric.

Because the Burden Cloth uses recycled fabric, we guarantee every Burden Cloth for one year. After that, when it wears out, we will take your old one in trade for a $5.00 credit on a new one.

How to Order

Timeless & Daughters accepts snail mail (check or money order) and e-mail orders.

To order by e-mail: click here to send e-mail to Timeless
request the size, quantity, and style you want. We will e-mail you a PayPal invoice for your total order including shipping. Orders usually ship within 10 days.

To order by mail: Make check or money order (including shipping) payable to "Timeless & Daughters"; enclose with a note listing your order specifics to
Timeless & Daughters
P.O. Box 824
Eugene, OR 97440-0824

Shipping

Up to three Burden Cloths ship for only $20 by Priority Mail (USPS), including insurance and delivery confirmation, anywhere in the U.S.A. Up to ten for $30! International customers are welcome as well; please click here to e-mail us for shipping costs specific to your location.


Visit Timeless

If you're in town, you can shop in person many weekends throughout the year; ask for "the Burden Cloth people" at Eugene, Oregon's renowned "Saturday Market." We make it to most Saturdays (April through early November, rain or shine) at the Market (west park block), Oak & 8th Streets. And we work the whole run of Market's autumn indoor version at the fairgrounds, every weekend from the week before Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve, where the annual Holiday Market absolutely rocks with free parking, free attendance, free entertainment, great food, great products, and great people! We are present for the entirety of Holiday Market; look for us in the same space as last year #96, a couple of booths left of main stage, against the rear wall.

The new store Cultivate, opening in early October 2009 on central Main Street, Sebastopol, CA, carries the Burden Cloth.

Timeless logo

Timeless & Daughters     Home   The Burden Cloth Family   Timeless Herbals   The origin of Burden Cloth   About our founder, Carol Jacobs  


Page content & images copyright©1991-2010 Timeless & Daughters, all rights reserved.
Burden Cloth(TM), Green Comfort(TM), HerbaLiniment, and UnBurn Gold are trademarks of Timeless & Daughters.
Code & design copyright©2001 - 2010, all rights reserved.