Take My Hand Opera Duster market of stars
A splendid and wholly original ode to friendship, this lighthearted design has quickly become one of our very favourites! We combined several pieces of art in the tradition of Victorian collage — including a remarkably detailed engraving of clasped hands and sun rays from 1626, a painted heart from a seventeenth-century colour chart, and flowers, leaves & hummingbirds from an 1800’s lithograph. The banners on the front reads, in both English and French, “La vie n’est rien sans l’amitié — Life is nothing without friendship”. The trim combines more hand-coloured 1800’s florals collaged together. The resulting print is so fresh and joyful — and unlike anything we’ve made before.
100% bamboo/wood viscose. Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.
Kimono measurements: length 116cm, width 78 cm (across back, underarm to underarm). Model is 5’9” for reference.
“What are hands made for but this? For holding. For holding on.”
- James Patterson
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
- D. Roberts
“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon.”
- Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat