antique wooden rice basket – brought home and very wabi-sabi.
Not too far from Queenscliff is Ocean Grove, and on the way there we stumbled over the motherload. MOTHERLOAD I tell you. I was hyperventilating and so distracted that a second trip had to be made.
Some of my favourite things:
Vintage Kokeshi dolls.
More kokeshi dolls – some were truly bizarre
Vintage thimble rings – one metal, one leather. Brought home.
wooden spools – so beautiful I wanted them all – and didn’t end up with even one….
weaving shuttles. stunning.
not sure what these are – my guess would be for weighting warp threads while weaving?
Moroccan shoes. Too pretty, but not very comfortable….
morroccan doors, and a really large range of iron vessels of different shapes and sizes.
vintage buttons – brought home and to be used on a project which is speeding along nicely (to be blogged another day)
hand-carved indian wood stamps. Brought home. I so want to try these out and can’t find my ink-pad anywhere. Anyone out there know where it is?
And a silk spool, brought home. To beautiful to leave, and completely useless in daily life.
The variety and beautiful bounty to be found at KYO is astonishing. I didn’t even have my camera out for more than a few minutes or you would have seen antique Japanese furniture, kimono, ceramics and sewing boxes that were beyond precious and so dainty. You probably won’t be going down that way any time soon. Neither will I, but it’s calling me from afar already, and you can visit their website here.
Don’t you just love it.
Wow. Some very interesting finds there. Of course all these pics were taken from your house – as you prob went home with lot LOL
Ooohhhh! Nice shopping. I hear the call too…
I just swore violently at the computer screen.
At the kokeshi dolls [you didn't CALL me?]
At the rice basket.
At the thimbles [can I just say again - you didn't CALL me]
At the weaving spindles.
I’d be on a haul high for weeks after that!! Well found!
Oh, that is just fantastic! And the website, wow–so many wonderful things–but it doesn’t look as if you can purchase online, that’s rather a tease!
Those hand carved Indian stamps are very impressive! Can’t wait to see what you create with them!
ah, the fabulous kyo.
SNAP on the basket (it sits at our front door now).
i am planning a little trip down there in a week…
[looks like i might need to give Al a ring!]
the stamps look wonderful, and would provide a lot of fun using a tool which is hand crafted. i am also in awe of the shuttles and to have some silk on one, ah heaven. a trip to be made with like minded friends i think may be in order.