Growing up, I spent countless weekends exploring the creeks, woods, and apple orchards near the farmhouse my dad built in Woolwine, Virginia. The house itself had all kinds of charms, from multiple sleeping lofts that you could only get to by wooden ladder, to big stone fireplaces, to banks of windows facing the Blue Ridge. But I also loved the rag rugs my Mom used throughout the house. Alive with multiple colors, the mottled, raw texture was soft underfoot and absolutely beautiful.

And that's certainly why I gravitated toward the work of North Carolinean Elizabeth Yarborough for our August-September New Faces of Southern Style issue. I loved the idea that her newest work was inspired by this soulful, primitive art form long tied to the South.

Yarborough took the look in a fashion forward, modern direction, weaving her own "rag yarn" from graphic Liberty of London floral prints to create fabric-covered bangles. Here's my favorite shot from the newly photographed line.

Aren't they great?

Does anybody else love rag rugs as much as I do?