l'uccello Summer Crafting inspiration

Some crafting inspiration for a leisurely Summer!

The holiday season is perfect for relaxing at the beach and being with family. And for many of us it is a time to finish off a crafty project or perhaps begin new ones. 

l'uccello has so many lovely fabrics, haberdashery items and  books to delight and inspire your creative spirit this Summer 

l'uccello 5th Birthday Celebrations

Starting this Friday May 1st l'uccello is celebrating

Labour Day and our 5th Birthday with a very exciting

'5 for 4' Happy Birthday Sale!

This special offer* will be available on selected items including

assorted fabrics,

beautiful Au ver a Soie and Sajou threads,

all ribbons, trims

and

felt products.

Just to name a few..... 

In 1561 Charles IX of France began gifting bunches of

Lily of the valley on May the 1st to ladies of the court as a symbol of good luck. This charming custom is still observed in Paris to this day.

l'uccello will be continuing this fine tradition with a sweet gift of a vintage Lily of the valley posie for every purchase over $25 during our 5th Birthday celebrations*.

*offers avalable while stocks last 

and instore only

Happy Easter

l'uccello wishes you all a wonderful Easter with your family and friends and a restful long weekend.

As you know we have been working busily on getting our website back on line. It is a work in progress and a little bit wonky but please bear with us....

However we can now happily announce it is open and ready to take your orders.

To celebrate our relaunch we are having a special 15% discount* across all products over this Easter weekend.

*on sale from Thursday 5.30pm to Monday midnight.

The discount will be automatically added to your shopping cart.

And while you are all having a lovely break and the Easter bunny delivers your treats we will be busy preparing for the AQC. We can't wait to surprise and delight you with all our beautiful new products!

l'uccello Easter Hours

Good Friday closed

Easter Saturday 10am-5.30pm

Easter Suday closed 

Easter Monday closed

Tuesday 10am-5.30pm 

normal opening hours continue

Hope you all have a wonderful long weekend! 

l'uccello

l'uccello Christamas Decorations Launch and Shopping Event

Join us this coming Wednesday the 12th of November for the launch of our Christmas decorations! During this special shopping event we will extend our opening hours to 7pm.

Discover divine gifts and Christmas decorations at l'uccello.

This year we have searched out some of our favourite designers and are thrilled to bring you a wonderful selection of Christmas decorations. We have traditional designs  from Bethany Low as well as nostalgic vintage inspired decorations from Wendy Addison's Theater of Dreams.

As expected  we have also sourced enchanting vintage decorations for you that will add a classic charm to your Christmas. And we also have divine contemporary decorations that will perfectly compliment different decors for an authentic Australian Christmas. These include opaque glass baubles, fun painted metal decorations and sparkly tinsels.

We have a limited number of these fabulous decorations so take the opportunity to be inspired and create your own magical Christmas with l'uccello

Special Christmas Shopping Event

Wednesday 12th November

10am - 7pm

l'uccello is off to The Craft & Quilt Fair!

l'uccello is loading up the old jalopy and setting up shop at Melbourne's Craft and Quilt Fair.

You can find us at 

stand EZ06

June 26 - 29th, 2014

Thursday to Sunday 9am - 5pm

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre,

South Wharf

click here to view our latest moving picture

This will be our first year exhibiting at the Craft and Quilt Fair!
We can't wait to see you there! 

New products at l'uccello

We have some delightful new products
that have just arrived at l'uccello, 
so we just had to share!

First up we have brilliantly hued spools of felt rope.

Colourful poly cotton ric rac in four sizes,
starting with the sweetest mini ric rac  that is 5mm in width.
Perfect for adding embellishments to your sewing or craft projects. 

Fantastic new ribbons by designers

Kaffe Fassett and Sue Spargo.

Ribbon by Kaffe Fassett

Ribbon by Sue Spargo

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.

 

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.