The Shop

Ribbon skirts

Everything here is finished and ready to go, and there is one of each. The cloth is bought in single lengths and never repeated, so when a skirt is gone it is gone.

Ribbon skirt in purple and blue paisley cotton with white, silver and purple satin ribbons

Paisley, in purple and silver

Price on requestAvailable

Ribbon skirt · purple and blue paisley cotton

Five ribbons running light to dark down the skirt, with the tails left long at the side seam.

Orange batik ribbon skirt with brown and cream ribbons and a printed floral band

Orange batik, floral band

Price on requestAvailable

Ribbon skirt · orange batik cotton

Brown and cream either side of a printed floral ribbon. The band in the middle is what the whole skirt was built around.

Ribbon skirt in dark pansy floral cotton with olive and lilac satin ribbons

Pansies, olive and lilac

Price on requestAvailable

Ribbon skirt · dark pansy floral cotton

Six bands set close together so the flowers show through between them. Bows tied at both sides.

Black cotton ribbon skirt with red and white satin ribbons and a printed floral band, worn with a red shawl

Black cotton, red and white

Price on requestAvailable

Ribbon skirt · black cotton

Plain black so the ribbons carry it. Shown with a shawl, which is how most people end up wearing it.

Ribbon skirt in red rose print cotton with black satin ribbons

Roses on black

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Ribbon skirt · red rose print cotton

Roses under four narrow black bands. The plainest ribbon work she does, and the first one to go.

One of each

Sold means sold

There is no restock and no second run. If a skirt has gone, the next one will be a different skirt in different cloth.

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Beadwork

The same hands, a much smaller stitch

Earrings, mostly. Glass seed beads laid a few at a time onto felt, edged by hand all the way round, and finished on hooks that will not bother your ears.

Large round beaded earrings in cobalt and royal blue with cut glass rings and a shell centre

Blue medallion

Price on requestAvailable

Beadwork · felt, glass seed beads, shell

Two rings of cut glass around a shell centre, edged in gold. The largest pair she makes, and heavy enough that they hang on lever backs rather than hooks.

Beaded earrings with a mother of pearl centre in green and mauve, with long dark feather tassels

Mother of pearl, with a feather fall

Price on requestAvailable

Beadwork · felt, glass seed beads, mother of pearl

Shell set in green and mauve, with a long feather drop below. They move when you do, which is most of the point of them.

Turquoise beaded earrings with a shell button centre and silver feather charms

Turquoise, with silver

Price on requestAvailable

Beadwork · felt, glass seed beads, shell button

A shell button ringed in turquoise, with red, yellow, white and black worked through the outer rows, and a silver feather at the drop.

Beaded strawberry earrings in red with green leaves and gold seed detail

Strawberries

Price on requestAvailable

Beadwork · felt, glass seed beads, cut crystal

Beaded solid, with gold picked through for the seeds and cut crystals set around the edge. The pair people photograph most.

Heart shaped beaded earrings in teal and violet around a floral cabochon

Heart, in teal and violet

Price on requestAvailable

Beadwork · felt, glass seed beads, floral cabochon

A floral cabochon set into a beaded heart, with a picot edge worked in violet all the way round.

New pairs

More as they are finished

Beadwork goes up in ones and twos, whenever a pair is done. Ask to be told when it does and you will hear before anybody else.

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Buying

How it works

The checkout is the easy part. The thing worth knowing before you get there is that the stock is genuinely one deep.

One of everything

Each piece is made once. There is no restock, because the cloth and the ribbon were bought for that one skirt and are not bought again.

The size is on the piece

Skirts are listed with their waist and their length, and beadwork with its drop. Real measurements on the thing itself, not a size chart to guess from.

It goes out quickly

Posted anywhere in Canada, usually within a day or two, because it is already finished. Or collect it here on the island.

Look after it

Cold water, a gentle cycle, hang to dry. Press the ribbons from the back on a low iron and never straight onto the satin.