clutch bag by red ruby rose

Georgeous silk-lined blue linen clutch bag from etsy seller Red Ruby Rose.
 
 


 


Here's a little snippet from Red Ruby Rose's featured seller interview on etsy. I love the sound of her house, and the description of her childhood home sounds so wonderful - two creative parents and an old Somerset mill house surrounded by woods and garden...

Hi, I'm Rowena and I'm writing to you from Bristol, England - home of trip-hop (Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead), Banksy, and a mighty fine suspension bridge. I live with my boyfriend Robbie, in a rambling Victorian house that we bought back in the days of yore when banks would happily lend mortgages to sketchy cases like us. We share our home with a various assortments of critters that wander in when we leave the front door open (hedgehogs, spiders, cats, musicians.....)

I was born and brought up in Somerset in an old mill house, surrounded by woods and garden and lovely green stuff and then I moved up to Scotland to study printed textiles at Edinburgh College of Art. After graduation I took a detour from textiles and have spent the last ten years self-employed, building up a collage/montage illustration career, firstly in Scotland and then here in Bristol. Red Ruby Rose is a fairly new venture for me... it's the result of my yearning for a more tactile process away from my increasingly digital illustration working methods. I started making these clutches for fun and haven't stopped.

What first made you want to become an artist?

Probably because I'm completely and hopelessly unemployable. I grew up in a creative environment - my mum's an artist and my dad walked out of his office job to become a self-employed printer when I was 11. He knew nothing about printing at the time but set up a one man business in the house which he still does to this day... that risk-taking obviously influenced me. 9-5 was never a viable option.... I did a few temping jobs when I was particularly skint after college and it spurred me on to never go near an office again.

Images from Red Ruby Rose.
 

Comments

[Clutch Bags]

This is a neat clutch. Would be good for a retro look.

[Marte Marie Forsberg]

What an absolutely adorable little purse!

[Electronic Cigarette]

Is that bag cross stiched?