H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang’s “The Brown Fairy Book”. Wikimedia Commons.

The Tears of a Mermaid

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“What symmetry! What art! They are the tears of mermaids!” —A jeweler describing a string of pearls in Desire (1936), starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary...

The Beauty Witch: JUNE

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The warmth of Midsummer voluptuous, yet restful weaves her magic into every drop of precious sunlight so fleeting and so powerful with honeysuckle nectar at our lips and birdsong the score in...

The Beauty Witch: MAY

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As the grasses turn to emerald the scent of wild thyme swirls with lusty bramble, released by the joyous dance of happy beasts. The May Queen has arrived to place...

Spring Awakening

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“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems” —Rainier Maria Rilke As the world blooms, in the spirit of spring renewal,...

Elven Beauty

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It was in the Northern Lands of old, where a change of light can shift perception, that starlight and sea first awakened the world...

The Beauty Witch APRIL: Light The Fire

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  Children of The Sun awaken, quite suddenly, bounding out of their flower beds to embrace the new tiny sparks turn to blazes, dancing everything to life with a shimmy and a...

Wilde Hunt Corsetry

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Photography by Rachel Lauren Larissa Boiwka chose a name with a grand and mythic history when she crea ted her bespoke cor set company. She...

The Beauty Witch MARCH: The Stirring of the Cauldron

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The way she plays with us, Spring, coyly giving us a taste of the Sun only to wave her wand, and cast us back again into the...
© Danniella Jaine

Atelier 19 – Jan Knibbs Design Studio

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Fashion and textile designer Jan Knibbs, whose couture work we feature in “Time for Changelings” on the preceding pages, recently fulfilled a dream she’s...
Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash

Winter Warming

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“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” —William Blake   With temperatures dropping, it’s time to reach for warming lotions, luscious creams, and fragrant oils...