Rowan-berries,
brightly orange, glowing in almost every garden or park...
I had to look them up in my English dictionary, these rowan-berries, I mean.
Come to think of it, I don't even know if rowan trees grow in any other parks and gardens but here in Poland. I hope they are because they're so special.You don't even notice them until the vivid red or orange berries start to glow.
Every Polish child made at least once a necklace of rowan beads. Just recently my son has made one for me as well. It's quite a sentimental plant, often used in poems or songs ...
Coming from this autumn inspiration again, here is a bag with a rowan-berries brooch.
It's wet felted, seamless, made on a smaller resist than the one with maple leaves, because I like variety in sizes and forms. Also I used a Polish wool as a base. Leaves however are made of homemade merino prefelt, colored by me in autumn shades again. This time rowan, maple, oak and lime tree leaves are on the front and the back side of the bag.
Orange beads you can see around the cotton lining and on the bag are imitating rowan-berries.
The lining is sewn in by hand because I don't like to ruin the wool painting on the bag. It has two pockets and a magnetic lock.
Because of the variety of leaves I painted, this bag could be worn not only with the rowan-brooch but also with the other one with maple leaves or the one I made for someone special - oak laves with acorns.
Or they all can be used separetely.
I like the whole concept of "two in one",
a bag with a brooch - in this case.
I think it encourages to use your imagination or go with the mood on any given day.
In other words: you have more options.
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