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Who We Are
Rarer specializes in creating home furnishings to decorate and enhance the functionality of your home. We help create a comfortable aesthetically pleasing and personalized living space. Whether it be repurposing old objects with a modern twist or designing anew, we take inspiration from everything around us to create beautifully unique and functional home furnishings.
Putting It All Together
Packaging – putting it all together.Needed to come up with something that highlighted the brand, but didn’t detract from the product. So decided on a translucent mylar paper printed with the eggplant purple from the website, all tied together with a beautiful red silk Chinese knot. Done!
The Art of Knotting
I have always loved Chinese knotting: the intricate patterns, the symmetry and the beautiful red silk string. It is believed that Chinese knots originated for record keeping purposes, such as recording significant events, and exchanging messages before writing was commonplace. However, soon their purpose evolved to decoration. They were used in clothing, furniture and everyday…
Stitching Together Generations
My mother was always very crafty and in her spare time she would always be sewing, quilting, painting ceramics, rug hooking, needlepoint or knitting, I guess that is where I got my creative influence. The most rewarding, I thought, was sewing because you would get to wear what you sewed for the world to see….
A Beautiful Life woven with colorful Threads
I love colors, saturated colors! So as I was trying to figure out what color thread to use with each design, I came across this beautiful multicolored thread by Coats and Clark. There are so many color variations that would be such a great compliment to the dish towels, creating a nice decorative edge.
Fabric Printing … so many choices!
Like I have said, besides fonts, I love colors, vibrant colors. So I wanted a printing method that could provide great colors and gradients. There are several methods of printing on fabric, However, since Rarer is a small business and only requires small batch prints, the reasonable printing methods are screen printing, sublimation printing, heat…
The Fabric of Our Souls … or maybe just the Dish Towels
When it comes to dish towels, I have a large stack in the kitchen that I have collected over the years. I definitely have my favorites but have never really thought why until now. Some factors I took into consideration are feel, durability, absorbency, and dry time. Some choices for materials for the dish towels…