Craft Tours
Craft Tours Overview
Coordinated exclusively for crafters looking to source French fabrics and frills, The Antiques Diva & Co takes clients by the hand to the best ateliers and shops specializing in fabrics, ribbon, buttons and bows. From vintage lace to last season’s Pierre Frey fabric, from Paris’ famous Marche St Pierre fabric district to secret sources in the Paris flea market, we’ll help you source French treasures to create your own “Made in Paris” designs! The Antiques Diva® & Co does such a sensational job scoring vintage fabrics and frills that they’ve been chosen as a supplier for Stampington & Co’s French Flea Market!
Available Tours include (see detailed descriptions below):
- French Fabrics & Frills Tour
- French Fabrics & Frills + Fleas Tour
- French Fabrics & Frills + Fleas 2 Day Tour
- European Needlework Tour – Knitting or Embroidery
- Custom Craft Tour Itineraries
- Parisian Atelier – Learn Cartonnage, Lampshade Making or French Picture Framing
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French Fabrics & Frills Tour
Available Tuesday-Friday 10am – 2pm
Half-Day Tour
From Toile de Jouy to yard after yard of gorgeous French silks, linens and lace – this tour is for the Fabric Lover and we positively promise to have you swooning with desire over the gorgeous French tissues you’ll find in Paris’ famed fabric district. Shopping in the footsteps of many an interior designer and at sources referred to in your favorite decorating magazines, you’ll find a sensational selection of taffetas, velvet, upholstering material, waxed canvases, printed cotton, plain canvas, printed canvas, linen as well as tassels, ribbons and trims. However this tour comes with a word of warning: you’ll want to purchase a second suitcase or mail your items home – it’s practically guaranteed that you won’t be able to withstand the French tissue temptations!
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French Fabrics & Frills + Fleas Tour
Available Saturday 9am-5pm
Full-Day Tour
Same tour as above but do it on a Saturday, extend it to a full day and visit specific vendors at the famed Paris Flea Market who specialize in vintage linens, buttons, lace – even vintage Chanel!
If you’re a Decorating Diva, then this tour is your Dream Come True! In this special Paris tour, coordinated exclusively for crafters looking to source French fabrics and frills, we’ll take clients by the hand to the best ateliers and shops specializing in fabrics, ribbon, buttons and bows. From vintage lace, beads, trims and tassels to and antique linens and textiles to last season’s Pierre Frey fabric, yard after yard of Toile de Jouy, gorgeous French silks and taffetas we guarantee there is something for everyone! You’ll shop in the well-tred footsteps of some of the world’s most famous interior designers as we whisk you from Paris Marche St Pierre fabric district to the famed Paris Flea Market. On this tour we’ll help you source French treasures to create your own “Made in Paris” designs! This tour is The Antiques Diva’s® personal favorite way to spend a Saturday!
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French Fabrics & Frills + Fleas 2 Day Tour
Available Friday & Saturday or Saturday & Sunday or Friday & Sunday
Two Full Days Tour
Join The Antiques Diva® & Co for a special weekend tour combining 2 of our most popular Paris Tours. Enjoy a Friday or Saturday shopping for “Fabrics and Frills”, hitting the Paris Fabric District then criss-crossing the city visiting Paris’ best craft-supply boutiques and ateliers to source your craft supplies where the vrai Parisians pick up their purchases. Then return on Saturday or Sunday to sashay through les Puce de Paris (Paris Flea Market) on the arm of a crafter who will point out the best pieces to pick up for creating perfectly Parisian pieces when you return home post-vacance! Two full days of Fantastic French Flea Market and Fabric Fun!
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European Needlework Tour -
Choose from Themed Tours on either Embroidery or Knitting
Available Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm
Full-Day Tour
Go behind the scenes into Paris’ passion for embroidery work, knitting and cross-stitch with this special Antiques Diva® Tour created to help you source traditional European embroidery, needlepoint and cross-stitch kits from France, Denmark, Italy, England and Belgium! You’ll run your fingers through a sensational supply of yarns for knitting projects and go ga ga over the varieties of ribbon and lace on offer in the French capital, including the famed Fabric District. Put on your walking shoes, for this is a full day of fun as we help you source Knitting, Embroidery and Fabric supplies!
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Custom Craft Tour Itineraries
Available Tuesday- Saturday
Half-Day, Full-Day, and Multi-Day Tours
Do you have a hobby that you’d love to shop for in Paris? Tell us about your passions and creations and let us design a Craft-Oriented ShoppingTour specifically for your shopping list, helping you source French supplies in the most creative city on earth! Whether you do Altered-Art, Jewelry-Making, Mixed-Media Designs or more, this tour is designed around your desire to create unique art with your finds found in France! Email us photos of your work and we’ll be inspired to source shops on your behalf finding you types of French supplies you only dreamed you’d find on your travels abroad!
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Parisian Atelier – Learn Cartonnage, Lampshade Making or French Picture Framing
Available Upon Request
Half-Day, Full-Day, and Multi-Day Tours
One of the great benefits of foreign travel is the opportunity to expand your mind. Why not take this a step-further, booking a private course with our on-staff Antiques Diva® French Craft Expert learning to make French finery while on your forays abroad. Learn from Diva Guide Franca the French art of cartonnage, a French past-time originating in the 19th C where ladies from bonne families enjoyed a pastime creating fabric- and paper-covered pele mele boards, trash cans, desk sets, pencil boxes and more. Or pick up a tres bourgeoisie hobby while in Paris, learning l’art de encadrement – French picture framing!! You can learn to perfectly frame your travel souvenirs whilst abroad! And if you’re looking to light up your life, why not take “un cours de abat jour” – a lampshade making course? Inquire for details info@antiquesdiva.com
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For those of you who shop online for French ephemera and special vintage bits and bobs, you’ll be interested to know that The Antiques Diva & Co is a proud supplier of Stampington & Co’s French Flea Market, helping America’s leading Craft Publisher provide vintage ribbons, lace, European accessories and more for crafters around the world!