I have just listed the first five Curious Shrines in my Folksy shop.
These small textile shrines are part artwork, part keepsake and part quiet companion. Each one is designed and handmade in my Leicestershire garden studio using painted and dyed fabric, hand embroidery, felt, glass gems, mirrors and mixed media embellishments.
Each shrine opens to reveal a hidden stitched sanctuary inside.
The collection is inspired by folklore, the turning year and the changing seasons of a woman’s life. I wanted each piece to feel like a tiny world: something symbolic, colourful, personal and full of story.
The five shrines are:
The Dawn Hare — A Shrine for Beginnings
The Becoming Bee — A Shrine for Becoming
The Keeper Owl — A Shrine for Devotion
The Returning Wolf — A Shrine for Reclamation
The Threshold Moth — A Shrine for Transformation
Together, they move through different stages of life: beginnings, building, nurturing, rediscovering and transforming. They honour hope, work, care, wisdom, independence, memory and change.
I have made these slowly and intuitively, layering colour, stitch and symbolism until each one felt like it had its own presence. They are not polished factory objects. They are handmade, one-of-a-kind textile artworks with all the tiny signs of the hand that made them.
Each shrine comes carefully wrapped in tissue paper inside a sturdy kraft presentation box, with its own printed story card and artist information card.
They are now available in my Folksy shop.
Ena Green Designs 