UK designer Jane Foster, who makes amazing screenprints, cushions, and sewn toys, is offering remnant packs of vintage fabrics on Etsy. These include rare European juvenile prints from the 60s-70s from manufacturers like Dekoplus, Graziela, and Heals — fabrics you never ever come across in the U.S. So grab them while you can!
1970s Dekoplus floral, from Something Fine on Flickr. Vicky has the largest collection of Dekoplus fabrics I’ve seen — check out this Flickr gallery for more.
I don’t know much about the company Dekoplus except that they were based in the Netherlands and produced very distinct mod/folk designs in the 60s and 70s (and perhaps beyond). Above: Dekoplus vintage cotton curtains from mannagryn design (blog) on Flickr.
Dekoplus Gloria Vintage Fabric, by Something Fine (eBay shop | blog) on Flickr. Those 1970s colors (brown, orange/rust, mustard/gold, avocado green) are done justice in Vicky’s collection of graphic prints from the 1960s-70s.
Something Fine is doing a European textile research project. She got to visit the Pausa Textile Factory in Germany and browse through its 20,000+ samples. The factory has sat for six years waiting for funding to become a museum after undergoing liquidation in 2002. I hope that funding comes through, because what a mind-blowing resource [...]
Dining Room – Dekoplus 70′s Dutch Vintage Fabric, from Etsy seller deepindigo. Cotton/rayon blend, $30 for 2.08 meters (2.27 yards) x 1.24 meters (1.35 yards) long curtain panel.
The ogee is well represented in Something Fine‘s collection on Flickr. This one is a Dekoplus Kitchen Fabric. Something Fine is interested in 60s-70s vintage fabric and sells a lot of it on eBay UK.
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