Love Grows Wild Opera Duster
An enchanted garden of earthly delights! Our lush and verdant botanical print comes from the “12 Months of Flowers”, a series of remarkably beautiful hand-coloured etchings from the 1700s by engraver Henry Fletcher. The prints were commissioned by famed English gardener Robert Furber, and were published as a catalogue of flowers and seeds according to season. We chose the Fletcher’s print from the month of March for its delightfully detailed blooms, and then layered the flowers together to create a wild and wonderful print that captures the exuberance of the garden. The charming bumblebee trim comes from a museum seed catalogue from the late 1800’s. We are so excited to wear this print! It’s such a joyful and abundant design that goes with almost every colour. Sometimes more is more — more flowers, more love, more everything :)
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 5’5” for reference.
An enchanted garden of earthly delights! Our lush and verdant botanical print comes from the “12 Months of Flowers”, a series of remarkably beautiful hand-coloured etchings from the 1700s by engraver Henry Fletcher. The prints were commissioned by famed English gardener Robert Furber, and were published as a catalogue of flowers and seeds according to season. We chose the Fletcher’s print from the month of March for its delightfully detailed blooms, and then layered the flowers together to create a wild and wonderful print that captures the exuberance of the garden. The charming bumblebee trim comes from a museum seed catalogue from the late 1800’s. We are so excited to wear this print! It’s such a joyful and abundant design that goes with almost every colour. Sometimes more is more — more flowers, more love, more everything :)
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 5’5” for reference.
An enchanted garden of earthly delights! Our lush and verdant botanical print comes from the “12 Months of Flowers”, a series of remarkably beautiful hand-coloured etchings from the 1700s by engraver Henry Fletcher. The prints were commissioned by famed English gardener Robert Furber, and were published as a catalogue of flowers and seeds according to season. We chose the Fletcher’s print from the month of March for its delightfully detailed blooms, and then layered the flowers together to create a wild and wonderful print that captures the exuberance of the garden. The charming bumblebee trim comes from a museum seed catalogue from the late 1800’s. We are so excited to wear this print! It’s such a joyful and abundant design that goes with almost every colour. Sometimes more is more — more flowers, more love, more everything :)
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 5’5” for reference.
“All the stars are a riot of flowers.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
- Oscar Wilde
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At once dramatic and beautifully classic, this piece is guaranteed to wow! Pair it with a slip dress and some romantic jewelry for a timeless look that will take you to any event in style, or mix it up with dark wash jeans, stovepipe trousers, or high-waisted linen for a cool-girl downtown vibe. It also makes the most luxurious lounge piece — whether you’re poolside or at home delighting in a lazy morning. And can we talk colour? This duster mixes perfectly with a huge range of painterly hues — including olive, merlot, gold, and steel blue — an entire garden of wonderful shades :)
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The artisan, the gardener. Women who cultivate joy, who keep the garden of their hearts a little wild. Women who never stop blooming.
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Robert Furber, the British horticulturalist who commissioned the marvellous artwork we used to create Love Grows Wild, wrote the very first seed catalogue ever produced in England and spent much of his life dedicated to documenting and preserving plants and flowers. The Twelve Months of Flowers, printed in 1730, remains his most well-known work and features over 400 species of flowers organized by their blooming season. Even today, almost 300 years later, it remains an astonishingly beautiful celebration botanical beauty.
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When we are old and the yard is a tangle of lilac and weeds, I will stand at the window and watch you go out with scissors. The kettle will be whistling, sink full of dishes still yellow with yolk from breakfast. My arms will be bony and veined with blue, my hands under the faucet will seem too fragile to be my hands.
From the window I will watch you pull aside the vines to cut the late spring blooms, hum softly our familiar praises — the ones that made the crocus close in amens at dusk for us and open like silk curtains each morning. Your head will bow in the sun as lilacs bow, reverent among the bees. When our garden is wild with ghosts I will still be yours. Come back to the house, fill my pottery arms with flowers at the door of our kitchen, in this world and the next.
