New Liberty? scarves

A trip to the thrift shops yesterday yielded two Liberty silk scarves 

Or did it?  I am questioning this one.  34" square  hand rolled edge with rather large stitches, nice silk,  the border has strange curves

and the logo is messily printed. Hmmmm....... or perhaps Liberty's standards have slipped.

This one, however, is what I call a true Liberty scarf.

So English, so ladylike.

More for my collection.

back in the saddle

Its good to be back at the Brickworks Farmers Market for the summer.

The layout is a bit different this year and I am experimenting with different displays.

Always good to take a few pictures as they easily draw attention to your glaring errors.
Sylvia ( below ) from Talis Fair Trade has the same idea.

Here, it is very obvious that this quilt rack could do with some straightening.

I was welcomed by staff and old customers alike.

Magic number

As predicted, Foulardfantastique reached 777 sales this week ( just)

My easiest and most fascinating shop.

Now, I promise you, I will not promote any more until 800 sales are reached......perhaps in the next few weeks or so.

I will eat my words

The last post predicted that it would be a long time before I reached my magic number  of 1111 sales in fabriquefantastique.

my etsy shop devoted to antique and vintage textiles.

I am happy to report that I was very wrong....it took about 24 hours.

The next goal is 2,000 sales. Now, that will take a while.

Almost there

Shameless self promotion here.

My three etsy shops are all just two sales away from the magic number. 

 

Fabriquefantastique, my first shop is now the slowest. I hardly sell any vintage fabric these days.  However, there are now 1109 sales....just two away from my magic number of 1111.
This may take a while.

   Foulardfantastique is jogging along nicely.  Now at 775 sales ....  That's a lot of scarves and  I expect to reach the magic number of  777!!! this week.

A nice surprised is the amount of vintage souvenir scarves that sell,  I find them fascinating and I suppose others do too.

 

 Vintage wedding dresses used to be a good seller here in Boutiquefantastique. 

Alas, no longer.

However, this shop is at 298 sales, only 2  to go until 300.

The surprise here is vintage sweaters that sell on a regular basis, if not a lightening speed.

This activity keeps me out of mischief.

Cuba ..... whats going on

Etsy has removed my souvenir scarf of Cuba because it contains Cuban content.

If it were not so ludicrous and petty I would be angry.

The scarf was most likely made in Japan,
I bought it here in Ontario.
Canada has never had an embargo on Cuba,
I did not know that Canadians had to abide by American mean spirited laws  whilst in their own country.
Etsy touts itself as 'a global community'

While they were at it they also removed a Nicole Miller scarf .....is she a traitor or something?

At least I have tons more scarves to sell.