vintage japanese kimono silk cards

Scraps of vintage Japanese kimono silk framed in a sakura cherry blossom aperture card. 3 different designs in pink, blue and floral green. Each with an envelope made from old blue patterned security envelopes, 5 tiny [2.5cm] stickers per card to match and a plain address label.


Also several sizes of rectanglular and square cards



In The Incredible How Etsy shop

Sakura cards set of 3
Square cards set of 4
Rectangular cards small set of 3
Rectangular cards tiny set of 3

still thinking of blossom

Japanese Chiyogami Washi Paper covered wooden brooch in the shape of an ume /plum blossom. Varnished with matt acrylic based varnish to keep the character of this traditional paper.
They are 2 inches across

new on Etsy - LINK

petticoats

I have been putting my petticoat collection up for sale... on eBay - along with other vintage bits and bobs and some magazines

get educated

some philosophical books and vintage magazines for sale on eBay at the moment

Art & Answerability: early philosophical essays  M.M. Bakhtin
Rabelais and HIs World by M.M. Bakhtin
Scottish Philosophy Selected Writings 1690 - 1960
Way to Wisdom an introduction to philosophy  Karl Jaspers
not quite philosopy
Canu Maswedd yr Oesoedd Canol Medieval Welsh Erotic Poetry  Dafydd Johnston

not quite a book
Rapid German vol. 2 from Earworms




Honey, Over 21 & Vogue from 1980s and Rave magazine from 1965
and some vintage lingerie....

gingham - spring into summer sale

gingham all in The Incredible How SALE SECTION over at Etsy - corsage/brooch, hair clips and a small reversible drawstring bag

gold hearts and numbers

hearts made from an antique maths book: "A key to the complete practical Arithmetician" by Thomas Keith; the 1846 or 1901 edition. So either Victorian or Edwardian....but originally published in 1790
The maths heart sits on a delicate gilded paper heart.


a card





a garland

neat hearts, not fluffy

hearts, stamps
1950s, 1960s, 1970s


all in handmade with paper section of etsy shop