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It started in a one-bedroom apartment in Boston; now it is on the racks in three cities and numerous homes beyond. It is Ray-Min Shoulderware — not simply handbags, but handcrafted ones made with vintage fabric, and embroidered with care.

Minette Vaccariello and her boyfriend Raymond Morin have transformed their craft in the past few years from churning out some basic bags for an art gallery (the Olive, in Lawrence, Kan. — the location of their first sale) to having a fan base of customers and a line of custom-made bags. Their website, ray-minshoulderware.com, lacks a lot of verbiage, merely saying that Ray-Min Shoulderware was created in 2003 to “create unique handbags that reflected our [Ray and Minette’s] personal styles and interests.”

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