RELIQ

Soooo... the AI Google screening process is a little tricky when it comes to moving a business with a non-electronic register/sign etc.
But yes, RELIQ is now in Downtown York, PA at 110 E. King St. right in Royal Square District and the Mural Walk!

We will have limited hours until our grand opening. Our York store hours will be:
Fridays 9 to 4
Saturdays 11-4
First Fridays 4 to 9
Second Sundays 11-4
We will also be open by appointment.

Pick-up in Elizabethtown and Marietta also available for our returning customers.

See you at GET CRAFTED on August 29! 🖼🍾🎨🥂✨

You might find Noel here if she's not in the shop... 📖🐛

What materials are you most excited to work with at a RELIQ perfume blending session?

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Fall appointments are booking now!

What comes to mind when I say the words ‘Peking Glass’?

If you’re picturing those lovely Czech-made speckledy marble-like green beads produced throughout the late 1800’s and into the 1930’s, then DITTO- SAME! -but DID you know that Czech glassmakers were ACTUALLY trying to emulate a traditional form of Chinese glassware that originated in Qing Dynasty Peking?

You DID? Of COURSE you did. 😅

Pals, I’m ashamed to say that I was TODAY years old when I learnt about the jaw-dropping art of TRUE Peking Glass: and I STILL can’t get my head around how they did it! 🤯

The process would begin with a glass core object- almost like a pearl nucleus. The core object would be sequentially dipped into multiple pots of molten glass, creating an agate-like strata of colourful layers.

Having sketched an intricate design on the smooth glass exterior of the object, (in this case, a bead) the artist would then use micro-tools to cut away the background, thus creating a raised colour-contrasting foreground; exposing the subtly glowing matrix of transparent and opaque layers within.

Bloody MINDBLOWING. 👏👏👏

Thought to be crafted at some point in the 1990’s by an unknown Chinese artist, THIS sumptuous selection was sourced by the BRILLIANT YJSHOPCanada (whose Etsy shop is a veritable FEAST of antique African trade beads, reproduction Phoenican heads and ancient glass treasures.)

WELL worth a look (and I am NOT being paid to say this! 😅)

P.S- Does anybody know if this person has an Instagram page? I can’t find it! 😫

https://www.etsy.com/shop/YJSHOPCanada?

RELIQ wouldn't be RELIQ without the community of artists whose creative work adorns the shop:

April Arnold
Joseph Austin
Barbara Buchanan
Robert Buchanan
Amber Charnoff
Caroline Fitch
Ben Freund
Jessie Koenigsberg
Mary Magenta
Tom Medlin
Raksha Shah
Linda Stinnette
Nancy Wilkinson
..and more!

I'm so grateful that you are a part of this little ecosystem! 🌱

Getting ready for First Friday! 🖼✨

📣 BREAKING NEWS! 📣

Scientists have confirmed: First Friday in downtown York makes you cooler, happier, and significantly more interesting.

Coincidence? We think not. 😉✨

Join us this Friday for August First Friday in Downtown York!

You can find all the First Friday York happenings on our website here: https://downtownyorkpa.com/first-friday/