Thursday, May 28, 2009

Etsy open!

For some unknown reason I opened my Etsy shop. I decided to go back to batik painting and I made a couple of cotton pillowcases. I also made some embroidery, a couple of linen bags. If anyone curious about what my other batiks look like, go under the batik label on the right side.

I am into this folk looking style of an embroidery that looks like you cannot actually embroider. I especially like Japanese sashiko, the simply stitch of it.
In the shop, I was thinking of putting up few vintage folk pieces that I can get here easily but the Czech Post charges huge money for shipping packages abroad. They charge incredible twenty dollars for the pacakge up to 1 kg! The textiles are fine though, they can be shipped as a letter and that lowers the cost several times.
Here goes the shop!

16 comments:

kristina - no penny for them said...

congratulations, your bags and pillow cases look very nice! good idea to open an etsy shop!

Francesca said...

Congratulations Magda! I just went over to your shop: your things are beautifully made. I'll be back in a couple of hours to check the batik link... I'm in the middle of making dinner right now.

Andrea Tachezy said...

to je vtipné, já uvažovala o etsy a nakonec jsem dnes skončila na českém fleru :-)
Tak gratuluji! můžeme si vyměnit zkušenosti z působení na domácí a zahraniční půdě!

Francesca said...

I'd somehow missed you batik works, astounding! I like the connection with your mother in this craft. The embroidery on the bags is beautiful (one is already gone, before I managed to take a good peek!). Did you work from embroidery patterns? Congrats again!

Andrea Tachezy said...

Mně se ta Vaše výšivka moc líbí! No s tou cenou je to ošemetný.
Docela ráda bych se podělila o dojmy a pojmy :-) ale asi by bylo lepší emailem, když budete mít chuť ( mám ho v profilu)

Bohemian girl said...

Kristina, thank you!
Francesca, I didn't use a pattern, I made it up, the brown bag has little to do with some of my batik scarfs that you have seen, so does the white bag. Geometric shapes, I couldn't do much else.

Kasia said...

Congratulations on your Etsy shop! The bag is wonderful, I love it! (the one that got sold yesterday). Beautiful piece of hand-work.

raining sheep said...

I love that bag. The embroidery is wonderful. I really like the Japanese sashiko as well... actually any Japanese textile craft is fabulous.

Kaylovesvintage said...

nice shop...like your work

gini said...

waou! beautiful blog....bonjour from the moutains of france...i love your country!
gini

gini said...

bonjour!!
weLL i've been to prague once and i loved it! i bought the musical doll there but the books belong to my husband, he is been to prague about 10 times...he collects czech books.
ur pillow case looks beautiful!
today is our first wedding anniversary, i wish we were in prague to celebrate...have u ever been to south of france?
gini

Merruli said...

Congratulations on your shop and lots of success! I'm so glad you decided to make more of batik.

christinecho said...

bravo
Super

I d like to open one. How does it work ?
What about taxes ? Is it difficult to do ?

Na shledanou

CC

Jill said...

gorgeous, original, cool, all of these things! just marked you as one of my favorites on etsy. congrats on a new endeavor!

Victoria said...

congratulations :) I hope to visiting the shop in a near future for some giftsa

Bohemian girl said...

Thank you all for nice and supporting words, it helped. I am working on up-date, it takes long, long time, but there will be new bags, maybe some pouches. All embroidery so far.