Hand dyed silk velvet acorns, made one at a time and sold in nine colourways. They are autumn pieces that work all year, and they sit at the top of what we carry for seasonal decoration.
Each acorn is dyed by hand and made by hand, which means the colour and the shape vary a little from the photograph. That is not a fault, it is the nature of the process, and it is why no two are identical. The cap is a metal topper finished with glitter and a small antiqued metal leaf, hand detailed rather than cast as one piece, and each acorn carries a gold bullion loop for hanging.
The size is about an inch and three quarters not counting the loop, which makes them large enough to read as an object and small enough to hang on a tree or a branch arrangement. The nine colours run from Light Gold and Champagne through Peach Rose, Dusty Mauve and Plum to Chartreuse, Teal, Sage and Blue Night, so they can be gathered in a single tone or mixed across a bowl.
People tend to buy them in threes. A group of three on a mantelpiece or in a shallow dish is how they are usually displayed, and because the colours differ slightly between batches, a group bought together tends to look picked rather than matched.
They are made by Julie Collings, whose velvet mushrooms and strawberries sit alongside them in the ornament range, and the same care goes into each.
We keep the range in stock, with new batches arriving through the autumn. If there is a particular colour you are looking for that you are not able to find on the website, reach out to us and we will be glad to help.
They are made with Julie Collings, whose velvet mushrooms and strawberries sit in the same family, and who dyes each batch by hand. Because the dye is mixed per batch rather than bought in a fixed shade, two acorns in the same colour name can differ gently from each other, which is what makes a set of three look gathered rather than manufactured. The antiqued metal leaf on each cap is applied and detailed by hand as well.
They store easily, which matters for a seasonal piece, and because they are small they can be used on a tree, a wreath or a table without dominating any of them.
