Vendiglobe.com is Canadian Company which specializes in stylish, tasteful lady's fashion. Here you will only find authentic styles, affordable prices, and prompt customer service. Because some of our products are handmade in Koniakow it may take up to a ten days before you receive your order.
Vendiglobe's lace lingerie is made exclusively in Koniakow vilage, heart of European lace making for over 500 years. The Koniakow facility has produced tablecloths and other fine products for many eminent customers worldwide, including the Vatican City and European Kings.
Each piece is hand-made using patterns based motifs that occur in nature, the form of the flower being the most widely used. In reality there is no factory per se in Koniakow, each garment is made by hand at the home of each employee and this tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.
Making clothing products such as underwear, thongs, bras, shirts and skirts was a break from the normal product line but the success of these items has convinced them of their value. Previously products were restricted to tablecloths, dresses and wedding dresses, all either white or ivory in colour. Now a wide variety of colours are used.
When crocheting underwear, Vendiglobe uses 100% cotton threads in many colours. We always use the finest cotton threads from Egypt.
Why Egyptian Cotton? Choosing Egyptian Cotton for us was mandatory. Like anything else we want you to have the best quality product. The finest quality can only truly be achieved when made from the finest quality materials. The quality of the cotton depends on the length of the fibres,
known as staples.
Taking care of your lingerie. All of our Koniakow products are made exclusively with Adriafil, so garment care could not be any easier. An Adriafil garment, due to the top quality raw materials and workmanship can be washed over and over without suffering degradation.has excellent durability during washing.
HANDWASHING Wash in lukewarm water and a little specific detergent. Allow to soak for several minutes then dip the garment repeatedly holding by the shoulders. Rinse very thoroughly without wringing. Spread the garment out to dry. Do not hang.
IRONING Recommended temperature is 150° using vapour of steam iron. Skimming over the garment with the vapour of the steam iron, you will also "regenerate" the fibres.
Three years ago, the women of Koniakow, a small village in southwest Poland (the country's lacemaking center), had a knotty problem: no orders. Driven by necessity, they started producing lacy thongs that were sold to tourists at the nearby ski resorts. A collective was formed to sell the lingerie online, and orders began pouring in from as far away as Japan.But the story doesn't stop there. First, the National Folk Art Society started legal proceedings, claiming that the women were sullying the town's storied lacemaking reputation. Then the local priest took to listing suspected thong makers in his weekly Sunday sermons. No word yet on how many have repented.
Polish lace makers at odds over recent switch to G-strings
By Jabeen Bhatti
KONIAKOW, Poland - For two centuries, the women of this small Silesian highlands town have hooked thread in intricate crochet patterns to create lace tablecloths and altar ornaments coveted by royalty across Europe.
It was an art taught by mothers to daughters, done at home after the daily farming chores were finished, bringing honor and income to the 500-year-old village in southwest Poland still traversed by horse-drawn carts.
Then came G-strings. Last fall, some lace makers trying to earn money spun a racy twist to the art, deciding that underwear would sell better than doilies. Since, the town of 3,000 has been in an uproar, neighbor pitted against neighbor, over the "stringi," Polish for string.
Lace making in Koniakow began in the 19th century when young women began creating caps of white lace to don after their weddings. Soon after, say lace makers, women in the town began to weave tablecloths, altar ornaments, clergy robe collars and other ornaments that adorn Polish religious and family occasions, as a way to supplement their income. Like heirlooms, patterns and lace needles passed through generations.
Article from The Independent (UK) August 8, 2004
Pope's altar cloth makers turn to a more profitable line - thongs
By Hilary Davies in Koniakow, Poland
The Polish village of Koniakow is not its former serene self. Is the reason bitter wartime memories or the legacy of 50 years of Communist rule? No. It is underwear. Very skimpy, very tight underwear.
For hundreds of years the local lace-making grannies have been crocheting altar cloths and Roman Catholic vestments, including one altar cloth for the Pope. But some have switched production in rather a dramatic fashion. They have started making thongs.The makers of the stringi, as they are known, are unabashed. After all, business is booming. Commercial success, however, cannot mask a certain reticence to talk among the stringi makers.
Until 1989, the old regime's support for "folk craft" meant the village lace-makers enjoyed a regular income stocking state-owned handicraft shops. But since the shops were privatised, business has fallen away and the Church's demand for altar cloths and decorations is strong enough to benefit only a lucky few. Hence the stringi - decadent but profitable.
KONIAKOW, Poland -- The delicate art of lacemaking, which brought fame and pride to this village perched on the slopes of the Beskid Mountains of southern Poland, was in danger of extinction.
The skills that had been passed down through the generations, from mother to daughter, were still in abundance, but the market--mainly clerical vestments and household decorations--was disappearing.
Then along came the thong.
The unlikely confluence of traditional lace, Internet marketing and man's apparently boundless desire to buy something skimpy and sexy for his girlfriend or wife has dramatically revived Koniakow's lacemaking industry.
The surplice and alb that priests wear are usually lace-trimmed, and Koniakow lace was long considered the finest. Polish altars are decorated with lace cloths, and the cloth used to cover the chalice is often trimmed with lace. Christenings, first communions and weddings are also lacy occasions.
As a young cardinal in nearby Krakow, Karol Wojtyla, who later became Pope John Paul II, gave a big boost to Polish lace makers by reviving the Feast of Corpus Christi as a major religious holiday. The traditional national costumes worn by women and girls for Corpus Christi processions are trimmed with lace.
Cornette
Gatta
Gorteks 
ITD
Kinga
Konrad 
Madeline 
Koni-Art
La Marru
Roza
Mat 
Miran 
Princess
Nipplex 
Obsessive 
Venus 
Virginia
Febe
Wolbar 
Poupee 
Gracya 
Lamour
Pigeon 
Volin 
Vestiva
Corin 
Vova 
