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• A Magical Fabric Collection - De La Luna

  Published Feb 21 2019 in De La Luna, Magic, Witches

   

  When I first saw Tula Pink's wonderfully magical De La Luna fabric collection, I knew I wanted to make dresses from it. The feature print is a beautifully detailed, but very large scale print with witch faces painted in the Day of the Dead style. My challenge was to design a dress for this fabric. That's how our new Minerva dress came about, as the vehicle for this "Possessed" print and other larger scaled prints.

  Tula's original pencil sketches of the De La Luna sisters:

  

  Tula Pink, (the designer of the fabric) wrote a wonderful story to go with her collection:

  "The De la Luna Sisters are the not so distant cousins of the Von
  Black sisters, who made somewhat of a name for themselves a
  few years ago in collection called Night Shade. While the Von
  Black sisters drew their power from more earthly elements, the
  De la Luna sisters cull their magical gifts from the spirit realm.
  Once a year, as fall crashes into winter, the matriarchs of the De
  la Luna clan call on their ancestors, acting as vessels for their
  vast power.

  
  Maria De la Luna, the youngest of the three sisters can see into
  the great distance of the future as she draws her power from
  the most clairvoyant spirits in their lineage. She uses her prophetic
  sight to write letters to mean girls informing them of the
  exact time and place that they will die or sometimes when their
  boyfriends will break up with them depending on how mean
  they are.

  
  The middle Sister, Magnolia De la Luna, is perhaps the most cunning
  of the three although it’s hard to tell because she doesn’t
  wear glasses and everyone knows that the smartest people always
  wear glasses. Magnolia, Maggie for short, draws her power
  from the spirits of earth and bloom. She uses her potent power
  to cultivate and nurture vast gardens and lush landscapes for
  her highest paying clients. Oh, did I forget to mention that she
  runs a surprisingly successful landscape architecture firm in their
  prosperous south Texas town?

  
  The oldest sister, Venus De la Luna, the undisputed caretaker
  of the whole De Luna clan and best friend to her cousin Scarlet
  Von Black has a vary mysterious past. Venus leaves a trail of
  admirers where ever she goes. Great empires have fallen under
  her angelic gaze. Many great men sit alone in padded rooms
  spending endless days and boundless nights whispering her
  name to no one in-particular. She swears that she did nothing to
  encourage their favour and was only, ever, minding her own business.
  Just because these men choose to buy her gifts from her
  extensive online wish list is truly no fault of her own"

  

  If you're a fan of death's head moths, skulls, evil eyes or witches check out the dresses we've made from the De La Luna collection here. 

  Diane for Cherry Velvet XOX