Charming new Sophie Digard arrivals

Sophie Digard is one of our favourite textile designers here at l'uccello. We so look forward to every new arrival of her designs as we are sure you do too. It is always a visual feast, her choices of colours are divine and the tactile nature of her work make it a pleasure to wear her beautiful scarves and accessories.

Here are a few of the new designs in store.

Vintage French Toys

These sweet French wooden vintage toys have just arrived at l'uccello.

And while we can see them delighting and being played with by little ones these toys can be enjoyed by 'children' of all ages who remember the joy and excitement of their playful childhoods.

Hooray! New Sophie Digard scarves and accessories….

New and absolutely divine Sophie Digard beautifully hand crafted scarves and accessories have arrived at l'uccello.

Gorgeous embroidery with three dimensional details, expert crochet and a unique colour palette make these pieces so desirable, delightful and a beautiful addition to your wardrobe.

These tactile works beg to be touched.

Sophie Digard crochet scarf #1

Sophie Digard crochet scarf #2

Sophie Digard crochet scarf #3

Sophie Digard hand bag with crochet and velvet pom-poms

Detail of Sophie Digard linen scarf with divine embroidery 

Sophie Digard luxuriant textile necklaces

Vintage Fabric Sample Cards

We are just enchanted by these delightful French vintage fabric samples. Their unique graphic design elements and vintage fabric samples  make them a  very special ephemeral keepsake from another era.

We have a limited number available in store at l'uccello so best to visit soon and choose your favourite to take home.

Vintage 'Pharmacie" Boxes

These delightful French vintage cardboard boxes are perfect for storing your little treasures in. They come in a few sizes and have wonderful original labels in lovely fonts.

The square vintage pharmacists boxes from Rouen a town north west of Paris where once used for cachets. The cachet was two rice paper cups joined together with powder inside and were developed in France by Limousin of Paris in the 1870's. The ingenious little cachets where designed to make the taking of bitter powders (medicine) more palatable.   

 These sweet round boxes are from a pharmacy in Lons Le Saunier south east of Paris between Dijon and Lyon vary in size from 12cm's to 5cm's in diameter.  

French Vintage Industrial Beauties

These lovely wooden vintage industrial shuttles and bobbins where used to weave fabric and ribbon silk jacquard and come from a ribbon factory in the Lyon region of France. Lyon was particularly associated with the manufacturing of silk ribbons as this was a traditional area of silk manufacture. This industry played an important role in the economy and by the 19th C Lyon had 310 silk factories not only exporting their goods to America and England but also India and even China. 

These industrial beauties with their aquiline and graceful profiles are made from a blond wood and many of them, over time have developed a wonderful patina through being handled and used.

Complementing the bobbins and shuttles are these original ribbon patterns. These works of art are hand painted in gouache and show just a small variety of the colours and patterns that would have been manufactured. They come from the mid to late 1800's with hand written notes on the back in French. The penmanship is exquisite with many of them including the designers signature and the date it was designed. These pieces are magnificent mementos of a bygone era.

 

Fabulous Inouitoosh Scarves

A collection of divine soft scarves has just arrived from Inouitoosh. Such beautiful colours and designs make these the perfect accessory for our Melbourne Spring. They are delightfully warm with a generous scale making these scarves incredibly versatile to wear. Designed in France these beautiful shawls are "born of a love of beautiful textiles" by two friends Lise and Mathtilde at their studio in the Baie de Somme. A love of natural fabrics and respect of traditional techniques makes these scarves uniquely beautiful. 

Here are just a few that are available in store at l'uccello as well as online.

From Paris with Love............

We just had to share our most recent haberdashery find. 

Beautiful vintage French ribbons in a variety of sorbet colours. The moire (watermarked) ribbons that are over 18cm's in width are exceptional.  

In store now.