Here’s the first of our new series, Shop Six on Saturday, featuring themed world travel-inspired items from our favorite handmade and vintage sites. Look out for this each week as we scour the web for small-scale stores and inspirational craftspeople and their unique goodies.
This week we’re featuring children’s pieces made from or inspired by maps – all from our favorite handmade and vintage site, Etsy.com. An artwork featuring a map is a beautiful feature to add to kids’ rooms. Your children will fall asleep dreaming of travel, adventure and discovery, and wake to find the world mapped out before them.
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Photo: Callaghanartgallery via Etsy.com
CallaghanartGallery’s bold and colorful World Map Collection, Original Silk Screen Prints, $170 set of 6. This would work beautifully in a playroom shared by boys and girls.
Photo: SpareBedroomWindow via Etsy.com
SpareBedroomStudio’s Around the World Crane Mobile, $28. Made from repurposed old maps of the world, this gorgeous origami mobile will capture the attention of any baby to lie still on the change table, and transfer beautifully to a big kids’ space.
Photo: Rachelaustin via Etsy.com
Rachelaustin’s Original Map Paintings, from $65. I bought one of Rachel’s lovely paintings for my daughter’s first birthday – simple images of urban life painted on a map of her birthplace. A special keepsake.
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Photo: Clarimb via Etsy.com
Clairemb’s Flying the Wrong Way, $335. Artist Claire Brewster’s exquisite bird sculptures cut, from antique street atlases, are so delicate they feel as if they really do have wind beneath their wings. What is your child’s favorite bird in your town? Claire will take commissions for your own bird/map creations.
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Photo:Pipedream via Etsy.com
PipeDream2010’s Magnetic Geography Puzzles, from $35, will turn your refrigerator into a fun and inspiring geography lesson. Each of the magnetic pieces slot together to create the USA, Canada, South America, China, Africa and more, and many are constructed form reclaimed old-growth hardwoods.
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Photo: MayasMomma via Etsy.com
Mayasmomma’s Personalized Pirate Treasure map, $20, is perhaps the ultimate map for kids. Personalize it with your child’s name and favorite people and places – Captain Clara’s Lookout or Pirate Sam’s Ridge perhaps? All we need now is the treasure!