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Daily Swatch: Vintage Sheets

Floral Pink, Olive, and Gold pillowcases, labeled Tex-made Canada by Dominion Textiles Montreal. Found in Tumbleweed Cottage’s Flickr stream … she sells vintage linens and other vintage goodies on Etsy.

Daily Swatch: Vintage Sheets

I am very late in getting into the vintage sheet craze, but I’m so in now. Too late to find good ones in my local thrift stores, probably, but not to late to find great bundles and uncut originals on eBay and Etsy. Above: a beautiful stack representing a few different styles/moods, belonging to mame* [...]

Daily Swatch: Terrycloth

I’ll wrap up this terrycloth theme with this very happy floral terrycloth from 1972, from moxie-girl on Flickr. Makes me want to lounge at the pool with a Virginia Slim (ewwww!) See Moxie’s great vintage shop on Etsy and stand-alone gift and novelty shop.

Daily Swatch: Terrycloth

Here’s another terrycloth print from the delightful collection of Original Mischief on Flickr.

Daily Swatch: Terrycloth

Vintage 70s Lazy Daisy Terrycloth yardage in four colorways, again from Witsister on Etsy.

Daily Swatch: Terrycloth

Love the pink + green in this one! It’s from moxie-girl on Flickr. I don’t see it in her Etsy shop but I do see lots of other treasures amongst her extensive vintage fabric offerings.

Daily Swatch: Strawberry Season With Guest Curator {kimmymade}

An unusually smaller-scale strawberry print for such a narrow-width fabric. From the collection of {kimmymade}, though also present in Kimberly Niesz’s collection in the pink colorway.

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Misc. Tessellations Continued – Houndstooth

Vintage feedsack floral on houndstooth background, from Dewitt & Co. (sold out).

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Hexagons

Not a hexagon, you say? Well, step back from the computer a bit, or blur your eyes — hexagons are all I see. This underscores the importance of negative space. I think the effect is cool in this case, but in designing repeats (and anything else for that matter) you really have to pay attention [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Half-Drop

Vintage Red Flower Fabric from marjieww on Flickr. Can you find the repeat? More or less.

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Half-Drop Repeat

Have you had your first seriously spring day yet where you live? Here’s a simple, springy half-drop floral from the collection of s n o r k on Flickr.

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Half-Drop Repeat

Unlike the floral print I showed you on Friday, you can actually see both the horizontal and vertical edges of the repeat in this one(from the vintage collection of chickadee nest on Flickr). First, we isolate a motif and connect the dots. Triangle = half-drop. (I screened back the fabric a little so you can [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Half-Drop Repeat

Here is a continuous, closely packed floral pattern, from the collection of myglorydaze on Flickr. It’s easy enough to spot a half drop with simple designs like the one shown earlier this week, but little bit trickier with busier patterns. What you have to do is pick one element/motif, look for it to appear again [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Block Repeats

Thank you, little tulip print from Dewitt & Co., for having built-in registration marks so that we can better find your repeat. Block repeats are the easiest to make, but the downside is they look blocky. If you’re doing a tossed print with a block repeat it’s tricky to avoid tracking, those unintentional vertical and [...]