The wild coast of Bohemia

I haven't sent this out in a newsletter because it's only two designs. But as they are brand new and we're really pleased with them, I thought I'd do a "special" for this month. I hate to use the word "cute" - but I do think they're cute! At 20 Euros they are probably a bit too cheap - but well, it's February and in a recession, so why not?

Overcome with pride of designership (okay, okay, Alex did all the hard work, but it was my idea, cough, cough) I'm doing freeeeee international shipping on our new Tenniel Alice bags for one week.

I love this print - and fortunately messengers are quicker to produce than cushions as we have the bag bodies made (similar print in cushions IS coming soonish - honest).

We have three of these for now - one in sepia with black (shown). One with taupe and one (I haven't done the full picture yet) in an inky-blue with taupe body.

Basically, it can be done in any combination of print and body, so four choices in all.

By request - link to the Etsy shop listing.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11110513
We only have one of these bags right now (though we have Alice and the Cards in this colour also, and one Alice and the Caterpillar in an amazing blue/purple silk). We just made one of each for the photography, but we will make more asap.

These came out SO well.

I thought I'd put these up - just for interest. I'm always saying that we do a lot of work even on the imagery that we use from other artists. So here is Rackham's Alice (scanned from a turn of the last century book) before and after being cleaned and adjusted for fabric prints:






Arguably, I think we have sometimes overdone this in the past - in a way it's nice to leave a little of the "age" and fading showing.

This print will be used on shoulder bags, tarot bags and messengers (when we make side panels that fit). I'm pleased with this - it's an image I've loved for years.