ABOUT NAN EASTEP

I am a Pacific coast, northern California, Bay Area mother, clothing designer, textile artist and urban farmer. JoyRider clothing is my attempt to apply the skills and experience I have acquired over the past 20 years as a custom clothier, to support bicycle and pedestrian culture. All the clothing is hand-crafted in my studio. Partnerships with other bicyling friends have been invaluable to creating JoyRider clothing, including Molly McCoy, the graphic artist who helped manifest the lovely waxed cotton raincoat, Paul Musso who helped with knicker product development, and the talented photographers TaSin Sabir and Pamela Palma.

I sell JoyRider clothing at my local Temescal neighborhood farmers market because it IS the place that bicyclists go on Sunday mornings! I would love to see the neighborhood farmers market become modern places of commerce, and am happy to see so many skilled crafts people setting up stalls alongside the farmers. I love farming and vegetables and seeing the community gather around the very basic stuff of life. I bring my treadle sewing machine, park my stall in front of the Temescal creek, and pedal out appliqued t-shirts, surrounded by wool knickers, hemp baby carriers, and waxed cotton raincoats. Life couldn't by sweeter! Come for the veggies, stay for the treadle sewing demonstration.