Do you have favourite words? Ones that give you a little tingle of delight every time you roll them around your mouth? (Or is that just me?!) There are a few words that I love to use…marvellous, pernickety, serendipitous, particularly, splendid…but my absolute favourite is haberdashery.
I think Jasper may have inherited my love of words. This morning he told me that his name was Ben Bickersnaff and that he would be back in a moment, “I just have to find a suitable hairstyle.”
Anyway. Back to haberdashery! (Or had-a-brash-er-y as Toby says) Just the word immediately puts wonderful pictures in my mind…lots of small wooden drawers filled with jewel-coloured threads, baskets overflowing with ribbons and trims, boxes and tins crammed with zips, and patchwork pincushions stuffed with vibrant glass-headed pins. And of course, buttons, my favourite item of haberdashery!
Most of the vintage haberdashery that I have came from my grandmother, who was given it by her mother. Those connections make it so special. I think of them every time I use a piece of ric-rac or pull a zip out of the packaging that has held it for the last three or four decades.
And how gorgeous is the packaging?!
Glorious colours!
I can’t write a post on haberdashery without mentioning a little shop which epitomises all my needlecraft daydreams…l’uccello, in Melbourne. It’s tucked away behind a fabric-covered door on the second floor, overlooking Swanston Street. It has a breath-taking array of ‘vintage haberdashery and fancy goods’ - gorgeous fabrics, threads, buttons, trims and all sorts of other splendid goodies. Even their business cards are beautiful!
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