Customized & Personalised Deceased Keepsakes
A unique tribute to a life. Our custom fabric shapes including hearts, stars, spirit animals, and almost any other silhoette shape sentimental to your loved person or animal are more than just an item; they are a piece of history, made from the very clothes your loved one wore, with the very scent and memories of their favorite items.
Elzinga Art treats your precious textiles with the utmost care, creating a one-of-a-kind, handmade memories you can cheerish forever filled with the super special essence of your loved one/s.
Transform your grief into a personalised, beautiful, long lasting legacy, that in time you will look at fondly, smile, and remember with love what your love one brought into your life.
Personalised Deceased Keepsakes -HUMAN
How l carefully and respectfully create your loved ones memory keepsake.
Elzinga Art will ring/email you to touch base around your preferences of shape, size, framing options, and whether you would like the addition of pictures of your loved one intricately sewn into the fabric shape or left plain with just their favorite clothing fabrics. (Photographs are printed to fabric) to provide even further sentimentality, however are only suited to larger shapes due to clarity required in the picture. The client may select one picture or multiple.
The client, will undertake a selection of clothing from your loved one and arrange delivery of your cheerished clothing items either personally, or by post to Elzinga Art's studio
A selection of the best pieces of fabric than takes place for both functionality and aesthetic value, the client may do this process themselves if thay wish to save cost on postage rather than sending the items as full garments.
Further care is taken cutting fabrics, and arranging potential layouts on a callico fabric base for maxium aesthetic, various yarns are added for texture and interest in keeping with the colour scheme of fabrics.
A layer of disolvable fabric is added over the finished layout, and it is than sewn until the combination of the fabrics and yarns come together as a viable visual fushion.
See video below to understand the creation process.
Create a beautiful permanent reminder of your past loved one
If your loved one was a keen fisherman, why not get a fish shape, if they loved people get a group of people silhouette, Elzinga Art can do any silhouetted shape that you can think of.
Personalised Deceased Keepsakes- ANIMALS
Elzinga Art also does animal keepsakes! Yes, their blankets, favourite fabric toys, and snippets of their fur can all go together to create awesome personalized animal keepsakes in the same way as humans. All the same steps apply, Elzinga Art can cut animal shapes, or use any standard shape you would like into your keepsake.
FRAMING: Currently l do not have the capacity to frame, so, l only create the keepsake for your framing later on, this helps to keep the price lower and allows you to spend as you require on framing to suit your budget.
Collars and name tags can also be attached to further personalize
How to Order
For smaller keepsakes up to 60cm x 60cm you can click the tab below and head over to the shopping page, if your size required is not there, please use the email form below to receive a quote for your prefered size. Please put two side measurements and desired shape into the email message box below. Alternatively if you wish to send a picture of your shape you can email elzinga@live.com.au