Not Your Grandmother's Macrame

Out of nowhere I suddenly became obsessed with tufty things, weaving, macrame and any sort of odd textural wall hanging. I think it started with Moroccan wedding blankets. A friend asked me to bring one back from Morocco and I didn't care much for them a year ago but they really grew on me with their mixture of metallics, soft cotton and fringe. When I got back I noticed Etsy was featuring quite a few different wall hangings in their promo emails and then bam! suddenly they are appearing all over the net and I want one, bad!  I've featured a few examples above of some of my favourites, I think the weirder and bigger the better. I also love when other elements from nature are incorporated, pieces of driftwood or metal. I'm imagining one above my bed that takes up half the wall with lot's of long cream threads with bits of metallic woven in and bits of driftwood. I am even considering making one myself. I found this tutorial if you want to try your own hand at it:

If you'd like to find the source of any of these images I made this Pinterest board where you can find all of these images and more that link back to their original sources. What do you think about this trend? 

Neutrality

Next week I am going to be having a pop up sale in the shop! The sale will include all of the gold related items - so the linen/gold and linen/leather clutch, gold pouch's and all of the pastel suede and gold items. More details will be announced here and on Facebook in the next few days so stay tuned.

Here though I thought I would show you guys how I personally would wear some of these featured items since they can actually be pretty versatile. The most versatile of the bunch is the linen/gold clutch which is a personal favorite of mine. This bag is quite neutral but the bit of gold gives it more of an edge and when you bring in the brown, you then have a pretty nice palette to work with. I think the natural fibres - like the linen and soft cotton lace mixed with metallic is a pretty contrast. Alternately, I might bring in some gold shoes or a scarf with a bit of gold woven in. You can do a lot - wide legged trousers with heels would also look awesome or even jeans. A lace dress. Etc. What do you think? How would you wear this?

1. Lace blouse by Isabel Marant, taken from my Pinterest.
2. Found sweater, Net A Porter.
3.Linen & Gold clutch available in our shop.
4.Wood bangles, found on Pinterest.
5. Harem pants from Zara.
6. Flats from Anthropologie.

P.S. Kitty was found! Not after many tears - and fears - but eventually late last night he was discovered hiding in a neighbor's garage. Phew! Nine lives is right...