Crafts
Vintage Mercerie / Drapery
How fortunate I was to be present and able to buy up numerous items from the closure of a Mercerie store (or drapers for Americans, haberdashers for Brits!). Everybody else headed for the modern items on the shelves, whilst I headed for the stockroom and the forgotten items. It was so much fun to see [...]
Embroidered Monograms and Initials
Recycling is not a new idea! In true French fashion items are stored until needed, and very little is thrown away. If an item of clothing or linens can no longer be patched and worn, all the buttons, trims, embroidery and useable pieces will be removed and also stored. We can benefit from their frugality [...]
Money Saving Bundles and Lots
I have grouped similar items together to make economic bundles of vintage fabrics. Some of these will be from the Nun’s estate sale and convent closure, where I found boxes and boxes of recuperated linen panels all neatly folded until needed. These panels are really useful for when a selection of different sorts of linen [...]
Vintage French Lace & Lacemaking
Lace both handworked and machined, and sold singly but also in bundles of like-items to save on postage. Some is new and made by the Nuns in the convent for sale, but others have been recuperated from garments and neatly stored in box after box to be re-used. From time to time I will also [...]
