So ive been going 'slightly' crazy lately, minus sewing machine and all things textiles, and have been spending most of my days off looking through amazing pics of other people's creations. Before Jen and I started Sawdust and Diamonds Clothing, the clothes that I was making at the time where under the name Selkie and Ive always had something in the back of my head about that scottish folktale and wanted to make a business around it. So Ive been entertaining myself on my day of today whilst Toms out job hunting, with making up a new name and label for a business hopefully selling clothes here in Melbourne in the future.
I have come up with the name -Selkie's Skin-, and really like the idea of clothes being a second skin, and letting you be something/someone else....a costume. The folktales of Selkies are about beautiful Seal women who come out of the sea and take off their seal skins to become humanlike and walk on the shore and bask in the sun. The stories also talk of men who fall in love with these seal women and take them to be their brides hiding their skins and thus their freedom.
Here is a label idea that I came up with:
I think the idea will work well with the kind of things I want to make, and I like that I could also theme collections of clothings to different mythical creatures. I love the UK for its folklore and folksongs, and thats actually something that I really miss about England.
Ive been looking at the work of 'Naturally Bohemian' (aka. the lovely Gemma I met at the festivals this last summer), and been getting so much inspiration from her work. Here are some of her creations:
I really love her style and reminds me a lot of the early lacey pieces I made for Sawdust and Diamonds. These are some of my fav's that I made, Id really like to get back to doing more creations like these...
I think I got stuck into a bit of a tram of making replications of patterns when I was in England, something that I love to do, and would love to have collections of also, but I think my love of making lies in one of pieces...especially crazy dresses....the lacier and crazier the better. Nom Nom Nom! Inspiration!
There seems to be a lot of markets and shops in Melbourne where it would be possible to sell. I think my dream would be to make clothing for the stage, for musicians like Kim Boekbinder and Amanda Palmer, were performance is everything and the audience is completely inspired to express themselves through clothing. Well I seem to have landed in the right city for all this and with connections already, so we shall see where this all goes hey! Its interesting to plan ahead and really think about what I want to make and how, because usually I just go ahead and make and see where it goes. Having no sewing machine or materials this side of the world means time for sketching and thinking and planning and scheming =)
So onwards and upwards! Cheers(!) to not waitressing in the future, and Horrah(!) for creative endevours
Xxx
I have come up with the name -Selkie's Skin-, and really like the idea of clothes being a second skin, and letting you be something/someone else....a costume. The folktales of Selkies are about beautiful Seal women who come out of the sea and take off their seal skins to become humanlike and walk on the shore and bask in the sun. The stories also talk of men who fall in love with these seal women and take them to be their brides hiding their skins and thus their freedom.
Here is a label idea that I came up with:
Ive been looking at the work of 'Naturally Bohemian' (aka. the lovely Gemma I met at the festivals this last summer), and been getting so much inspiration from her work. Here are some of her creations:
I really love her style and reminds me a lot of the early lacey pieces I made for Sawdust and Diamonds. These are some of my fav's that I made, Id really like to get back to doing more creations like these...
There seems to be a lot of markets and shops in Melbourne where it would be possible to sell. I think my dream would be to make clothing for the stage, for musicians like Kim Boekbinder and Amanda Palmer, were performance is everything and the audience is completely inspired to express themselves through clothing. Well I seem to have landed in the right city for all this and with connections already, so we shall see where this all goes hey! Its interesting to plan ahead and really think about what I want to make and how, because usually I just go ahead and make and see where it goes. Having no sewing machine or materials this side of the world means time for sketching and thinking and planning and scheming =)
So onwards and upwards! Cheers(!) to not waitressing in the future, and Horrah(!) for creative endevours
Xxx
hey this is great! the selkie's skin idea, i mean. Lady Maisery have just put together a version of the Grey Selkie (or the Great Selkie of Sule Skerry as it's also sometimes called). It's such a beautiful ballad. In our version of the text, it is a male selkie that a woman falls in love with and then when they have the child the selkie comes to take the child back to the sea. Then, the woman marries a gunner who shoots two seals from the sea - her son and the grey selkie. It's so sad! Really eerie and beautiful though - I think it's a great name for a clothing label too. Second skins and the power of them, costume and revealing ourselves. It's great! And the logo is really amazing. Well done! We'll probably record the Selkie on our next album xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rowan xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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