Santos

I've recently discovered these beautiful, amazing figures while perusing various blogs and websites. They are called Santos and were used in religious celebrations and parades back in the day. I'm on sort of a big religious iconography (is that a word?) kick right now - looking for items like these, big artistic iron crosses, beautiful tiles a la Sid Dickens, etc. I bought one of those (it's not a Sid Dickens, but it looks similar) yesterday - I'll share it tomorrow. I don't know what it is about all this stuff- it just all seems very cool to me and in the remodeled house, I actually have room to put things like these Santos figures. Here are some that are so lovely I have to share (all pictures used by permission of the shop owners).

This one is from The Curious Sofa in Kansas City - how badly do I want to go to this shop! If you live in that area - lucky you - if not, her website and blog are fantastic and very inspiring!

The Curious Sofa also has this amazing collection of crosses - WOW!

Next is a lovely from Sadie Olive, she has quite a few in her wonderful online boutique (where I am a frequent customer, admittedly).

She also has this amazing St. Francis - I love the little birdie!!

Yesterday, I got my new Ballard Design catalog (I'm also a frequent customer of theirs, though I do really like supporting the smaller, independent boutiques) and they've jumped on the bandwagon - though they are calling their figures "Flemish Dollmaker Forms" - theirs are resin, not wood, but I thought it was interesting. Looks like my Santos have gone mainstream! (Mind you, I still don't actually own one, but I'm hoping!)

Comments

[Jen b]

jackie those are great. i am off to email you about some at french general right now.

[Kathy Delgado]

Hi, Jackie-Thanks for your comments on the blog (I responded to you there on the zinc chalkboards). We have an enormous inventory of santos and religious figures--many, never, never get put on the website as we have such a busy boutique. If you provide us with your budget and size wishlist, we'll send you pics of current inventory at that particular time! Hope to see you soon! PS ours are all vintage wood-not reproductions if that matters. Kathy/Vintageweave Interiors. {GREAT blog!}