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Bestowed with the middle name
M'Lou, Stephanie Guittard Scigliano
practically had no choice but to
have a place in her heart for the
vintage and one-of-a-kind.
Added to that, Scigliano is a
textile junkie. Everything that is
brightly colored and beautiful
catches her fancy, from ephemera
of all kinds including books and
vintage cardstock letters to textiles
that she collects, sews or dyes. And
lucky for us, the whimsical pieces
she collects and creates under the
name Olive M'Lou are offered for
our pickings at both her Etsy shop
and local boutiques and art fairs.
Since she learned to sew at an
early age, Scigliano has loved to
experiment with different mediums.
After studying painting, sculpture
and silk-screening, she designed
hats for women and children at her
Plymouth shop, M'Lou Millinery.
"Hats can be very labor-intensive,
and once my children were born, I
found that babies and hat-making
were a challenging combination,"
says Scigliano. So she turned her
creative energies toward fabrics,
including select baby and toddler
items, like hand-dyed and berib-
boned leg warmers and tie-dyed
rompers embellished with vintage
fabric and trims, like cording and
ribbon, that she dyes herself in the
basement studio of her West Bloom-
field home, "where I can be as messy
as I need to be," she says.
She also creates lusciously hand-
dyed scarves, lightweight and
breezy and bursting with carefully
applied color. Often dyeing large
pieces of fabric so she can make a
bigger-scaled pattern, then selling
the fabric by the yard or cutting
pieces for various scarves, she fills
large squeeze bottles with liquid

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Procion dyes — bright, rich and
child-safe — rather than vat-dyeing,
so that she can precisely control her
designs and use more colors per
piece.
In addition to her larger-scale
designs, Scigliano has a second
shop on Etsy, Olive M'Lou DIY, where
she offers her boundless supplies of
vintage and handcrafted embellish-
ments for do-it-yourselfers look-
ing for standout touches to their
own creations. Fabrics and trims
that she's hand-dyed are displayed
among vintage Art Deco buttons on
their original card, vintage millinery
supplies like French silk flowers
and lacquered and flocked fruit
and colorful flexible silicone molds
that Scigliano creates from vintage
buttons and can be used for making

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