Rustic pottery, macramé plant hangers, industrial-pipe shelving, Scandinavian-print pillows, and Japanese shibori-tie-dye table napkins: these are just some of the items you’ll be decorating your indie-styled home with this summer if the recent Vancouver Etsy Trends forecast is correct.

The decade-old DIY web-shop phenomenon was in town recently for its first Canadian trends presentation—a showcase of the hot new things its artisans are showing both internationally and locally.

And it’s no secret that, these days, Etsy is ahead of the curve, its massive stable of indie designers setting trends in motion that larger retailers pick up on later.

Amid the strong themes for home, Etsy Canada’s Jennifer Knox cited the bohemian look. “There’s macramé—and it’s earthy, nontraditional, and artistic,” she said at the event at Gastown’s Blacktail.

Among the ways you can get the look is integrating shibori pieces into your textiles. The ancient Japanese art form, which uses natural blue indigo dyes, is seeing a resurgence among crafters—and it is a precise, all-natural process that is not your screaming 1970s tie-dye.

“I’m using techniques that are based in Japanese heritage and the patterns have meaning,” explains artist Joanne Cheung of Blue Nails Indigo, one of the locally based Etsy sellers specializing in the craft. One technique creates wavelike patterns, and she winds the fabric around rocks before dipping it to create beautiful circular patterns. “They look like jellyfish,” she observes. “But you can make triangles or linear shapes as well, depending on how the fabric gets folded.”

Cheung, who makes napkins, cushions, and, more recently, patchwork quilts (“It’s the Japanese tradition to use every scrap”), says you always have to use natural fabrics with the indigo dye. It’s that colour that drew her most to the art form: “I describe it as ‘where the ocean meets the sky’.” (Her prices range from about $18 to $75.)

“It is simple to do—I would encourage people to be curious about it and try it,” she says, “but the masters are truly masters.”

Other local designs capturing the bohemian look include the retro woven wall hangings of Vancouver’s Drie Designs (about $28 to $95) and Homework Housewares’ pyramid candles ($20), both of which should have you pulling out your Simon and Garfunkel vinyl.

Another theme Knox cited was industrial chic. “Anybody can do this who has old metal and can mix the hard and soft—and it’s very inexpensive,” she said. Amid the local offerings here, check out White Lies Jewelry’s Etsy shop, where geometric metal and glass terrariums bring that industrial feel (about $70), or Industrial Pipe Design, where the line’s title material finds cool new use on shelving (about $100).

And it seems the Etsy world is still going wild for clean Scandinavian looks. “That will just never go away,” Knox commented. “People just love minimal, and it’s a high-end look for a low cost.” Among the local purveyors, check out the simple stylized hand-screen-printed owls, rabbits, bears, and birds that adorn Frydendahl’s cotton-linen pillows and tea towels (about $20 to $36).

The rustic-modern look is another big trend, featuring lots of reclaimed wood and rough ceramics. We love the antique-looking pottery vases by Vancouver’s Golem Designs (about $32) and the reclaimed-wood trays by Gallant & Jones ($139).

Etsy seller Crystal Ho’s Triple Studio wildlife-print pillows could also fit nicely into a rustic-modern room. Emblazoned with digitally printed watercolour imagery of foxes, deer, raccoons, and more, they bring a little bit of nature into a home (about $35). “People say there’s a peacefulness in my paintings, and there’s a sense of movement,” Ho tells the Straight.

Of course, these home trends are meant to be reimagined in your own way: if the web hub for the handmade revolution has proven anything, it’s that rules were meant to be broken.