Design blog featuring arts, crafts, fashion and culture
Mahar Drygoods is a real gem of a site for Friday afternoon surfing. It’s stocked full of vintage and artisan crafted goods for kids. Owner Robert Mahar collaborates with more than two dozen indie designers, artists and craftspeople, many of whom create items exclusively for his shop.
The site has a lovely nostalgic[.....]
Introducing Locher’s. In 2001 Swiss born Nicole Locher opened her design atelier in Paris. Combining objets trouv? from London and Paris flea markets with modern fashion, she has created a style all of her own.
After finding an embroidered handkerchief from the turn of the century it became Nicole’s mission to bring back this[.....]
tomate d’?pingles is a wonderful Etsy store offering a quirky range of jewellery, accessories and stationery made from vintage, recycled, retro and new materials. Like the flat notecards for example, shown at the top of the post. They’re hand embroidered and feature gorgeous multicoloured vintage repurposed buttons.
I’ve picked out a few more[.....]
Paper Flower Girl is an emporium of all things pretty. Earrings, toys, pincushions, bags and brooches are all handmade from a mixture of recycled and/or natural materials.
Wool felts and linens are layered and stitched to produce cute flower brooches. Vintage buttons are given a new lease of life as[.....]
February 14th. A day of love, romance, flowers, hearts, chocolates and the launch of the eagerly awaited Tokyo Made. At 8 o’clock a.m. Tokyo time, the much anticipated emporium of Tokyo cool threw open its doors to share its stylish treasures with the online global community.
The store is full to the[.....]
Tammie Bennett has a head full of pixies, along with stickers, fabric, totes, stationery, paper and much more besides. Maybe it’s the pixies that make her so creative.
Her online shop is bursting at the seams with things I like, including patchwork cushions, fused glass pendants, notecards, magnets, pin cushions and vintage sticker[.....]
Somewhere in deepest Cornwall sits Lee May. Surrounded by a menagerie of animals, she doodles and paints, creating hand printed tees and sweatshirts. Real and mythological creatures sit alongside each other in imagined conversation. And quirky characters appear against natural and dreamlike backdrops.
All of the t-shirt designs have been taken from[.....]
If (like me) you’re on the last minute with your present buying, I have a good tip. Hoolala has a stunning range of unusual jewellery and frippery. Sam Gannaway-Jones is the creative force behind the company. Her handmade charms have been created from her own personal photo archive and ephemera[.....]
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