Living with Wooden Tableware
Why wooden tableware? We like wooden tableware because of the way they look, and we appreciate the craft that goes into making them. Some items… Read More »Living with Wooden Tableware
Journal
It Takes a Village to Make a Handcrafted Rattan Bag
You may have heard of that proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” That’s very true here in Bali. It means that your community helps to take care of, look out for, and ultimately contribute to the welfare of your children as they grow up.
What you may not have known is that it also takes a village, figuratively speaking but sometimes literally, to create one of our rattan bags. Each bag is not usually painstakingly made by just one immensely talented individual, but painstakingly made by many, many talented and tireless craftspeople.
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Top 10 Favorite Stylish Looks With a Rattan Bag
I’d like to think that a rattan straw bag enhances just about any look. Charming, casual, and effortlessly elegant. Browsing the internet I came across some stylish, particularly effective combos. Check them out below!
New PolkaDee Gingham Round Rattan Bags
I love gingham and I won’t lie about it. Of course, you’d already know that because I already wrote a journal post about it. The understated checkered cloth adds to your wardrobe a touch of country style, a soupçon of vintage French style, and a heaping lot of casual elegance and class, without calling too much attention to itself.
Gingham is Back, Baby!
Have you noticed that gingham is trending lately?
Judy Garland, complete with pigtails and wicker basket, wore arguably the most famous gingham dress in history back in 1939 as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. The inexpensive checkered cloth became a symbol of innocence in simpler times just like the character itself, who just wanted to go back home to her old country home in Kansas.
Dorothy Gale, trendsetter
Jane Birkin’s iconic, timeless, casual chic style.
Iconic. Inspirational. Chic. Nonchalant. Timeless.
I keep seeing these terms over and over again attached to photographs and fashion blogs attributed to one person: Jane Birkin.
There are very few people who fit those descriptions more than Jane Birkin, the English girl who came to Paris unable to speak a word of French, fell in love and married one of their greatest cultural icons, and continued to become a fashion inspiration of her own and a symbol of free love in 1960s Paris.
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How are Bali rattan basket bags made?
Bali bags? Basket bags? Rattan bags? Wicker bags? What do people call these things?
Regardless of what they’re called, they all share one thing in common:
Lygodium circinnatum.