#inorog

Miturile despre unicorn

Cuvântul "unicorn" provine din latinescul "cu un singur corn", și se referă un animal imaginar care apare în legende din China, India, Mesopotamia și Europa. În vremurile medievale, unicornul a fost adeseori portretizat ca un cal cu un singur corn crescându-i din frunte. Descrieri ale animalului din variate surse diferă întrucâtva, dar toate se pun de acord în privința cornului său. Unele imagini ale unicornului sau inorogului au fost bazate, probabil, pe animale reale precum rinocerul și narvalul, o mică balenă cu un singur dinte sau colț care aduce un un corn de fildeș spiralat.

Inorogul: Simbol și semnificație

We’re sorry to see you go, but we’re glad to have had you! Alice will be sorely missed, as will you. We wish you nothing but the best! Perhaps our paths will cross again one day.

Alice Antonescu, Empress of Aniselle, has been dropped.

What an enchanting empress, what a nice spin for Aniselle. Hopefully your reign proves fruitful. 

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Basically, in the beginning, is all about investing and re-investing almost everything..

There are times when we are overwhelmed and things are tensioned and we’re wondering how we’re going to make it all happen. These last months were clearly an icon for this particular situation I’m writing you about. At the start of the year, we bought an embroidery machine - nothing too fancy, but not cheap at all - it was actually really expensive for us, but we wanted one for sooo long, so we saved all the money we made from the Autumn + Christmas orders and we purchased it after long debates. We chose a Singer Futura. It seemed like the perfect match for us at that time. YAAY! We were so excited, we just couldn’t wait until it gets here. The machine arrived and little by little that super exciting times seemed so far away. It turned out to be impossible to work with, we just couldn’t sort it out - to mention that none of us had any idea of what an embroidery design needs (as mentioned many times we’re completely self-taught into this). The design digitizing programs were space ships (and just think about that I tried a lot of designing programs during school years), we couldn’t sort out the thread tension, we broke dozens of needles.. To sum up - we lost our hope that we will ever recover our investment.

After months of practicing and testing and experimenting, little by little we rediscovered why we need this machine because right now the digitizing phase runs so smoothly (we discovered the best program that works for us), now we can embroider our original design as drawn in Photoshop (after pencil sketches) - we just cannot explain the fulfilling sentiment that embraces us right now, to see that we actually can do everything we propose and imagine!

We so love to experiment ♡ After nailing the embroidery programs we completed our practice with screen printing. I guess you will see this combination a lot in the near future - we absolutely adore this mixed media approach, it suits our vision.

So.. In the end, is all about hard work, commitment and devotion - and things will sort out eventually!

T. Xx

emotions behind the process • eight The other day, I've read some interesting threads on our IG Feed about mass production and low quality/prices.. I was really glad to enter that discussion, as I was meaning myself to write this blog post for a while. As independent designers, we often face the issue of production costs, that could mean material price, hours spent on concept & design, and most important above all, the manufacturing process itself. Trying to develop and enter a market where your competition is made in.. 'Bolivia / India / Pakistan / China' etc (you get the idea), is almost near insanity. How to explain to a customer that your product is gently made by your own hands, and in this process you invested a lot, that is not a mass production item, that is almost one of a kind - when everything that counts nowadays is the price and how fast you update your collections? Collections that are changing so fast that they can't even sell out in time because the other one arrives.. What happens to the waste? >> It's called p o l l u t i o n. Is so frustrating to see that people don't ask themselves 'why is this object so cheap?!' - because the answer is very simple: someone was not paid enough or not paid at all.. Why do you think the labor work is so insanely cheap in the countries like the ones above? They're let to be that way! Try producing the same in.. Europe, let's say.. and you'll discover that would be impossible because you have laws over here that don't let you underpricing a man's work for your own production! It's simply wrong!

For a clearer image of the message above, here we are.. trying to work as faster as a factory, in the meantime, trying to sell enough to cover the hours spent on making products & developing new ones so we wouldn’t be left out and on top of everything, making it possible with a minimum charge.

So dear possible customers, a good design made by hands is not cheap at all, try not to be absorbed by this mass consumerism rush, try choosing quality objects next time, objects that can become heirloom.. But.. Does that even matter now, in this secular time? Does it matter to leave heirloom objects behind?

emotions behind the process • seven Thank for your orders, thank you for your kind words, thank you for supporting the small businesses, thank you for investing in indie artists and artisans, thank you for being an active component of our IG community, thank you for taking the time to check our work out, thank you for being so different, thank you for being so open minded, thank you for sharing your creativity, thank you for sharing your personal moments with us 💝 A big thank you to you all, all our worldwide clients, potential clients and collaborators!! . We can never say in enough words our appreciation for you, the ones that make our dreams come true!

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