Choose your own color fabric necklaces
Our latest line of recycled fabric necklaces are now available online. They are constructed of cut-out canvas shapes that are hand painted. What’s exciting about these is not only the fun shapes but the fact that they can be custom painted to any color under the sun. They create a very bold statement, can be [...]
Latest in the Original Üka Bag Series
The hand painted messenger bags are what I like to call “The Original Üka Bag” because it was the very first bag design I created when I started this company. It’s also the bag I get the most compliments on. You can read more about these here. These bags are special which is why I [...]
Scrapping it
During the bag creation process there’s inevitably a lot of fabric scraps that are generated. Scraps can often be used in appliqué design, but often we are left with pieces too small to use in sewing projects which pile up into a large mass of waste. How can we stay green by not contributing more [...]
Big Buttons
We like big buttons and we cannot lie… Big bold and beautiful buttons. We have a secret source for these lovely gems up in Los Angeles and they have become the inspiration for our latest series of bags. These oversized buttons come in two flavors: Raw wood (that we can stain or paint ourselves), and [...]
Leucadia and around Encinitas
Leucadia is a little beach community of Encinitas California ranked among the top beach communities for surfing. Californiabeaches.com declares Leucadia as “the best old-fashioned beach town in California”. The name means sheltered paradise which is a good description given the large Eucalyptus trees that line the 101 as well as the luscious abundance of avocado, [...]
Stain and weather guarding with an eye on the environment
Let’s face it we love our funky printed cotton fabrics. We love hitting the remnant sales at quilt stores for fat quarters. Fat quarters, are quarter yard cuts of fabric cut in squares instead of lenghtwise. Quilters use these, but it turns out they are the perfect size for wallets, as well as pockets, and [...]
hand painted bag
Perhaps the #1 bag Üka is known for is this hand painted tree bag. Each one of these bags is one of a kind (no two are alike) painted free-hand by artist Erika Thorpe. Though we may produce similar designs, we assure you the artwork and fabric selections are unique on each of these bags. [...]
Tree Tee
A 1 color print featuring a unique tree design with typographic elements and insects embedded in the graphic foliage.
Gaia
a 1 color print depicting the earth mother. This was our very first T-shirt design. We submitted this design to Redbubble in July where it became featured.
Not all faux leathers are created equal
We have recently begun phasing out all vinyl, and vinylized fabrics from our products in favor of Polyurethane faux leathers. Polyurethane or urethane is a greener alternative to PVC (vinyl) and leather in both it’s production and biodegradability. PVC is a chloride containing material that leaches out dioxin, (a toxic carcinogen) and it does not [...]