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Flowers & Their Mystery of Healing WAS SKILLFULLY HANDMADE BY FRANCES v.H Studio IN SOUTH AFRICA
PART OF THE 'Are We There Yet' COLLECTION.
THE STORY BEHIND THIS PRODUCT
Pressed love letters found in a book on birds you bought off the Declutter Whats-App Chat. Will she still love me tomorrow? She must have liked him or at least the compliment. Why else did she keep it? Maybe it wasn’t her letter to start with. Maybe she picked it up. How are we meant to believe fossils are real when we can’t even believe a physical love letter. Shut up. I’m serious. Go away. That’s the name of a bird you know. OMG, stop. Here, I googled it; ‘The Go-away bird is named for its distinctive, loud, and nasal alarm call that sounds remarkably like “go -away”. Native to Southern Africa, this bird uses this call, often accompanied by jerking its tail, to warn other animals of predators or, effectively, tell humans to move away’.
He definitely moved on before she could reply. So much for love. Love is fickle. At least it’s real. It’s a feeling. I like it. Love? Yes Me too.
HOW IT WAS MADE
STEP 1 - KAROO LANDSCAPE
STEP 2 - SOIL
STEP 3 - THE DELICATE ECO-SYSTEM OF THE KAROO PLANT-LIFE
STEP 4 - RAIN
STEP 5 - ANGORA GOATS
STEP 6 - HAPPY, HEALTHY ANIMALS
STEP 7 - FARMERS
STEP 8 - HERDSMEN
STEP 9 - WASHING & OPENING MOHAIR
STEP 10 - HAND-SPINNING
STEP 11 - HAND-DYEING
STEP 12 - WARPING
STEP 13 - WEAVING
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FRANCES V.H Mohair is a tiny women-led textile studio based in the Great Karoo, South Africa. Working purely with mohair, they focus on developing a variety of mohair textiles informed by a land-up approach instead of collection-down.
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FRANCES V.H Mohair is a tiny women-led textile studio based in the Great Karoo, South Africa. Working purely with mohair, they focus on developing a variety of mohair textiles informed by a land-up approach instead of collection-down.
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