FREEPORT — It’s re-purposing, Maine-style: L.L.Bean is making limited edition totes from the Boston Red Sox’s rain-delay tarp from last season.
The company made the announcement Friday.
The green and white 2013 tarp will make about 3,000 bags, according to a spokesman.
They’re sewn onto a blue canvas bottom and made in Maine.
The Boat and Totes are licensed by Major League Baseball Properties and go on sale next Saturday, Sept. 20, for $59.95, limited one per customer at a variety of locations.
L.L.Bean said in a press release that 20 percent of the net proceeds from the sale of the bags will be donated to the Jimmy Fund, a nonprofit that supports Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
It’s the third time the company has made totes from a rain-delay tarp. Totes from the 2011 tarp commemorated both L.L.Bean and Fenway Park’s 100th anniversary, and proceeds from the 2012 tarp raised money for The One Fund Boston, benefiting victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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- For the third year in a row, L.L.Bean is making a limited edition run of its classic Boat and Totes out of the Boston Red Sox’s rain-delay tarp. The bags go on sale Sept. 20.
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