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A Small Studio Where Hands Are the Machine

Bohemia Handmade Studio is not a warehouse with a catalogue. It is a workroom with cord on the walls, plaster drying on the bench and a founder who still ties every knot herself. Nothing here is made until someone asks for it — which is slower, and is the entire point.

✦  Made to order, never mass-produced ✦  Shipped worldwide from the USA
Mariale González, founder of Bohemia Handmade Studio, wearing a handmade crochet headband
Every piece made by hand Natural cotton & real plaster Photo approval before shipping Worldwide delivery
Our story

¡Hola! I’m Mariale.

Every project where your hands are the source of production carries a unique value — it is born from passion, and from time devoted with love. That belief is the whole reason this studio exists.

Bohemia started the way most fiber studios start: with one piece, made for someone specific. A wall hanging for a room that needed warmth. A name in plaster for a nursery that was still empty. Then a friend asked for one, and then a stranger did, and at some point the kitchen table stopped being big enough.

What has not changed is the part that matters. We still make one piece at a time, and we still make it after you order it. There is no shelf of finished stock waiting to be matched to a customer. Your macramé is knotted for you, your letters are cast for you, and the cord is cut the week it ships.

That means we are slower than a factory — usually seven days on name signs, ten to fourteen on larger fiber work. It also means we can change a color three days in because you saw the preview and wanted something warmer, which a factory cannot do at any price.

Today the studio makes four things: macramé wall hangings, crochet goods, custom plaster name signs, and DIY kits for people who would rather make it themselves. We also teach — in person for groups, and online for everyone else. From our studio to homes across the U.S. and the world: thank you for supporting slow, handmade work.

— Mariale González, founder
What we hold to

Three rules we don’t bend

Small studios survive on trust, not on volume. These are the promises we would rather lose a sale than break.

Made after you order it

Nothing is pre-made and nothing is drop-shipped. Your piece begins existing the day your order does, which is why we can still change the color, the length or the spelling before it is finished.

Materials you can name

Single-twist cotton cord, real wood dowels, plaster cast in our own molds, water-based pigment. No synthetic filler cord, no resin pretending to be plaster, no mystery components we cannot tell you the origin of.

You see it before it ships

Every custom piece gets a real photograph sent to you for approval — not a mockup, the actual object on the actual bench. If it is not right, we remake it. That has never been a negotiation.

How it happens

From your message to your wall

The same four steps whether you are ordering a name sign, a wall hanging or a commission. No account to create, no checkout maze — most orders start as a conversation.

01

You tell us

Message us on WhatsApp or email with what you have in mind — a name, a wall size, a color you keep coming back to. A photo of the room helps more than you would think.

02

We quote and confirm

You get a written price with the size, the finish and the delivery window before anything is charged. Nothing is committed until you say yes.

03

We make it

Cord is cut and knotted, or plaster is cast, sanded and hand-painted. This is the part that takes days rather than minutes, and it is the part you are actually paying for.

04

You approve, we ship

We photograph the finished piece and send it to you. Once you approve it, it is packed with mounting hardware and tracked to your door — anywhere in the world.

Materials

What is in our work — and what never is

Fiber decor is an industry with a lot of hidden substitution. Here is ours, stated plainly, so you can compare it against anything else you are considering.

Always in the studio

  • Single-twist cotton cord, 3mm and 5mm, the same cord we sell in our kits
  • Real wood dowels and rings, sanded by hand before assembly
  • Plaster cast in our own silicone molds, not bought as blanks
  • Water-based, low-odor pigment — safe to hang in a nursery once cured
  • Adhesive mounting strips so nothing needs a nail in a rented wall

Never in the studio

  • Synthetic filler cord sold as “cotton blend”
  • Laser-cut wood letters finished to look like plaster
  • Imported blanks re-labeled as handmade
  • Solvent paints or anything we would not use in our own home
  • Stock inventory made before anyone asked for it
Beyond the shop

We would rather teach you than gatekeep it

A studio that only sells finished objects is a shop. A studio that teaches is a craft. We run workshops for groups, brands and private events, and we pack DIY kits for people who want to learn at their own kitchen table with real cord and a printed booklet instead of a QR code.

If you have ever bought a kit that ran out of cord four rows from the bottom, you already know why we started making our own. Everything we teach, we teach with the same materials we sell in finished pieces — there is no student-grade version.

See the DIY Kits   Book a Workshop

Talk to a person

There is no support ticket here — just us

Questions about a size, a color, a delivery date or a commission go straight to the studio. We answer in our own words, usually the same day.