STEAM LOLITA: Steampunk-lolita fusion fashion is born

I've decided to launch a new additional brand to Dance Macabre called ' Steam Lolita'. Its a fusion of Steampunk and Japanese Lolita fashion.

The idea came to me whilst reading the manga series 'Hollow Fields'. One illustration fired my imagination and I began to think of the possibilities of expanding my work for a female audience. Gothic & Lolita fashion has been huge in Japan for years and is now working its way into Western Gothic and even mainstream fashion, it seemed like a logical step to cross the relatively new gothic offshoot of steampunk with it.

The initial range of clothing and accessories will include:

womens t shirts
linen patches
customised accessories such as parasols
papier mache alice bands

check out http://www.steamlolita.co.uk/ soon!

Dance Macabre end of year !!!SALE!!!

Grab an early bargain in the Dance Macabre end of year sale!
T shirts down to as low as £10
Hoodies reduced to an amazing £25
Linen Patch t shirts down to £18

Go on, treat yourself :)

New Cufflinks go down a storm over Christmas!

I've finally got time after the Christmas rush to post shots of the new cufflink designs I produced for the festive rush!

Two feature Ancient Egyptian themes and one is a variation of my massively popular Cthulhu design.

New patch and shirt designs for the new year

Its been a while since I've been able to burn any screens due to a bad batch of photo emulsion. After weeks of experimenting with various burn times as long as 1 hour (usually it only takes 10minutes to activate the light sensitive ingredient and produce a screen) I finally bought a branded product and its producing better results than ever!


!st off the block is a Steampunk inspired design available as a linen patch and a white t shirt. A patch shirt will follow soon!

Secondly i've produced a large 30cm squared print based on the writing of HP Lovecraft available as a patch and shortly a shirt

More updates soon!

Whitby Goth Weekend

For those of you that don't know Dance Macabre had a stall at the Whitby Gothic Weekend. It was my first attempt to sell at an event like this but it was a huge success, as ever the most popular items were my handmade cufflinks http://www.dancemacabre.co.uk/hand-made-cufflinks--tie-pins-13-c.asp and linen patches http://www.dancemacabre.co.uk/linen-patches-16-c.asp

I've already booked my stall for the next whitby gothic event in April.

I gained lots of inspiration for new products, designs and presentation of the items from the event and have been hard at work producing new items for the shop. I'm hoping to finish these off at the weekend so keep your eyes peeled for them...all will be revealed soon.

Winter Warmers

Winter is well and truly here. It's cold, misty, drizzly and dark. But, on the bright side, it's the perfect opportunity to tell you about my hoodies that I have for sale on the website. The black unisex hoodies (availalble in a range of sizes) all feature a linen patch design designed and hand sewn by myself. The featured design in the photo is an Alice in Wonderland playing card design. This extra special hoody features a playing card design with engravings from Alice in Wonderland. It is first printed onto a linen patch with fraying edges then hand sewn onto a black heavyweight hoody.
A choice of front or back print is available for this design. http://www.dancemacabre.co.uk/alice-in-wonderland-playing-card-black-linen-patch-hoody-102-p.asp

New cufflinks available for Whitby Gothic Weekend

Purple Heart Linen Pocket T Shirt

This extra special purple shirt features a hand sewn pocket made from linen with an anatomical heart print and pop rivit corner details.

New Ladies Deluxe Linen Patch Shirts section & Alice Shirt

I've just added a new section to the website for the ladies and the first product to feature.

Black Linen patch Alice T Shirt

This extra special linen patch Ladies shirt features a playing card design with engravings from Alice in Wonderland. It is first printed onto a linen patch with fraying edges then hand sewn onto a black heavyweight shirt.

Shroom Woman T shirt

Shroom woman has a mushroom for a head!

This white shirt features a giant black victorian style collage print.

Birdman T Shirt

This white shirt has a giant black front print. Inspired by the work of surrealist artist Max Ernst this shirt features a collage of Victorian and grunge imagery of a birdman in an ornate frame.

Giant heart t shirt with ink splatters for Valentine's!

Giant Heart t shirt

Have a heart with this white shirt featuring a giant grungy print of an anatomical heart with ink splatters!

just follow the link!
http://www.dancemacabre.co.uk/giant-heart-t-shirt-65-p.asp