It is midday on Sunday and there are 50 women on a Facebook page all bidding for the chance to have a custom made handwoven baby wrap.
The bidding is fierce. It starts at $200 and 30 minutes later closes at $1210. All the mums that missed out are quick to congratulate the winner and let her know they can’t wait to see her creation.
This is the fascinating world of high end handwoven wraps. A world where mums are shunning prams in favour of wrapping their babies as they bid, trade, buy, sell and search for highly sought after wraps from around the world. It is a practice which is often described as going down the rabbit hole.
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$4,000 for something you wear for a few months... I get fiber arts, but holy cow lady. It's too culty for my taste. I guess the Queen's husband is spending her hard-earned cash on junk cars and tattoos, lol. What a scam.
I have used an old sheet to carry my son about while camping. Better then any carrier I ever had.
When you join these groups it hunt for perfect takes over your brain. Looks like I need to take up hand weaving as it appears to be lucrative !