Spica Altar Cases + Cozies

From the mouth of Reyna, master textile-babe —

Altar cases, travel cozies, and water bottle sleeves will be made from a lightweight cotton twill custom printed in colors inspired by everything present on the day of the working – the altar, the candles, the quality of light.

Words I’ve been using to describe the colors include matcha, leaf, corn silk, canary, marigold, honey, caramel, and squash.

My initial goal was to compose a very earthy, harvesty palette graduating from avocado to pumpkin, but test-print after test-print returned to me more bright and vivid than planned. The avocado wanted to give way to fresh lime tones, the pumpkin kept leaning towards tangerine, and the sunshiny canary yellow insisted over and over that she would not be ignored.

I was expressing my exasperation about this to Jaime (an artist herself and a person I go to often for feedback and advice on creative matters), and JUST THEN the brightest, tiniest little mouthful of a bird landed just outside the window. Indeed it’s spherical little torso was almost entirely a brilliant canary yellow. I was too slow with my camera to capture the visit, but the message was clear: Spica wanted to bring the bright and brilliant Springtime shades into the mix! Once that was settled, an understated ghost-of-a-rainbow was all I needed to complete the composition.

Another limited edition round of Altar Cases + matching Cozies. Actual photos forthcoming!