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SiltiCrafts creatrix Kristine

I'm a messy crafter. In my Witch Town destruction is the mother of creation and chaos is a fertile ground.

My favourite part of doll crafting is this. Not styling or dressing up, but discovering the character, finding its' essence through colours, stiffness, lightness, roughness, flow and I dare to say vibration of the fabric and shiny trinkets. I use pre-loved, unwanted, outworn, broken etc materials to make my dolls. Those materials are donated and sometimes sent to me from across 7 seas. Sometimes the choice is between landfills and my craftroom, between announcing something a trash or it becoming a treasure again. I work with former belongings of those alive and deceased, giving them second life in my dolls. And I think it just adds value to them. It makes them special.

Sometimes it's the materials that lead the way to the finished doll, not my ideas. In that sense I myself as an artist feel more like a door, like gate for these creatures to enter the world, not the god that creates them. It's my job to serve them and find what they need, not make them exactly how I've seen them with my minds' eye. The process of making a doll doesn't happen with empty mental space, this is where inner conversation happen and I dare to call them conversations with dolls. I don't literally hear them talking (I've been asked this, so to be clear...), but that inner conversation happening while I craft helps me to find new perspectives, reminds me of my values, shows me the way, so I dare to say that dolls talk to me, materials reveal secrets and I have a lot of teachers right at my fingers. My only teachers in doll making have been dolls that I make.

Does this make any sense to you or I sound like the lady who has lost her sanity long ago?

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30% off Retro Clothing

Need some warmer clobber? Get 30% off retro clothing online via the Oxfam online shop for a limited time.

With thousands of pre-loved, second-hand clothes you can find everything you need to create a perfect sustainable fashion wardrobe without the high street price tag.

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Offer expires at 2:00pm on Monday October 14th, 2024

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Vintage in Vogue as London Fashion Week Embraces Second Hand Style.

With research showing that 65% of the UK population wear second hand clothing, London Fashion Week has embraced the fashion shift to a circular model by putting on a ‘Style for Change’ show.

Organised by Oxfam, who have a vast online collection of second hand clothing, celebrities including Kola Bokinni and DJ Vick Hope donned the catwalk in preloved gems.

Hope said, “It definitely feels like there is a real shift happening, where people are finally seeing how fabulous secondhand shopping is, particularly preloved clothing,”

“The beauty of shopping in places like Oxfam is that you never know what you might find and it’ll be completely unique; as well as being new to you, these clothes have stories to tell, and more life to live and be loved.” 

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