About mharbu

Half-elf Mieren makes bags and pouches for everyday use in her small workshop on the edge of town, where the evening light breaks differently, colors play differently, and ancient legends whisper. Mieren comes from the island of Mharbu and has only been in the city for a short while. She's discovered that locals have a peculiar relationship with simple things. They often don't notice a detail until they hold it in their hands. Yet it's the detail that determines whether a bag is comfortable to wear all day, whether a coin purse fits just right in your palm, whether it can be fastened even blindfolded...

When not working on crafts, in the evenings she sits with dwarves at the tavern discussing what's happening, who's wandering where, what's new on the trails and whether dragons are really coming back, or if it's just another story that changes a bit with each telling.

About me

My parents actually named me Markéta and I create mostly without magic, just with two hands. In my work, I like to combine various craft and artistic techniques to create pieces that can be (more or less) a portal to another world where you might meet elves, dwarves, perhaps hobbits, and occasionally a dragon. I mainly make bags, coin purses and various accessories for those who like to keep a small reference to their favorite worlds in color or shape in their everyday life.

I work with vegetable-tanned leather (the most ecological way of tanning leather), which I hand-dye, and sometimes combine with waxed canvas. I make each piece slowly and carefully so it works well and lasts. If you want to adjust something or come up with something from scratch, I do modifications of my designs and custom orders completely from scratch according to your honored ideas. mharbu is an acronym of my name and my reminder that even without magic you can make things that have a special spark.

… a mharbu is simply an acronym of my name.

Connection to the Human Realm

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