Featured Artist : Raluca Iosub

After eight years in the clothing industry, I began to work by myself, after quitting my dayjob. I was always passionate about fashion history and old couture techniques. So i painted the fabric and I was excited to learn so much from your tutorials and techniques. I discovered Dharma's site four years ago and I was very happy to work with Jacquard Neopaque and Dye-Na-Flow on my dresses, but last year I began to make hand painted bags and purses. I was very happy to discover the Angelus products for leather and vinyl.

I started to make purses to match my hand painted custom evening dresses. From this to hand painted bags was a very small step.

My inspiration is fashion history and nature. I love especially 1920's fashion illustration and I find it very resourceful. I pay much attention to details, embellishing with crystals, sequins and beads.

I sell my bags on my shop on Etsy under the name PrintUnique.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/PrintUnique

I also have a blog with all the bags i have made: http://printunique.net/

and on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/printunique/purses/