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Company Focus: Mokuba Ribbon
Jul. 19th, 2008 09:05 pmI have been a fan of Mokuba brand ribbon for years and years, ever since i first came across it in the Pearl Art and Craft in Boston, MA. If you aren't familiar with Mokuba, they are a Japanese company which produces extremely high quality ribbons and trims of unusual, creative design. Yesterday, i took a lunch-break trip to their NY design center, featuring nearly 45,000 Mokuba trims.
My intent was to purchase a range of ribbons to be used on a very small collection of couture hats i'm going to produce for Spring 2009; Mokuba's products are expensive, but i'd only need a few yards to do the half-dozen hats in the collection, and i wanted top-quality. The sales help in the design center greeted me and my companion (a fellow first-hand at Parsons on Shrek) immediately upon entering and asked our business. I mentioned my millinery collection, that i was looking for small quantities for one-of-a-kind hats; we were ushered to a special back room.
The room was full of discontinued ribbon styles, for which they had only single or partial spools remaining. They gave me a basket, told me to fill it, and claimed they would then price the basket at a rate i would not refuse to pay. I did exactly that, and they held up their end of the bargain. I was able to get a large quantity of couture ribbon i otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford to splurge on. (Mokuba's ribbons can be $50/yard or more--i had planned on buying single-yard cuts for my hat collection. Instead i wound up with spools of each style instead of a couple yards worth.) I couldn't have come up with a better scenario more suited to my purposes!
( a picture of some of my spoils... )
My intent was to purchase a range of ribbons to be used on a very small collection of couture hats i'm going to produce for Spring 2009; Mokuba's products are expensive, but i'd only need a few yards to do the half-dozen hats in the collection, and i wanted top-quality. The sales help in the design center greeted me and my companion (a fellow first-hand at Parsons on Shrek) immediately upon entering and asked our business. I mentioned my millinery collection, that i was looking for small quantities for one-of-a-kind hats; we were ushered to a special back room.
The room was full of discontinued ribbon styles, for which they had only single or partial spools remaining. They gave me a basket, told me to fill it, and claimed they would then price the basket at a rate i would not refuse to pay. I did exactly that, and they held up their end of the bargain. I was able to get a large quantity of couture ribbon i otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford to splurge on. (Mokuba's ribbons can be $50/yard or more--i had planned on buying single-yard cuts for my hat collection. Instead i wound up with spools of each style instead of a couple yards worth.) I couldn't have come up with a better scenario more suited to my purposes!
( a picture of some of my spoils... )
