Japanese Fabric of the Week
This Polish folk print, made to look (I think) like a vintage flour sack, was spotted at Karaku Style on Etsy.
Posts tagged ‘folk’
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch
Red Pennsylvania Dutch-y fabric from Japanese shop Pindot. I’m hosting my first Thanksgiving dinner this year so I’m going to sign off till Friday, when I’ll post a holiday edition of the sale alerts. Happy Thanksgiving and long holiday weekend, everyone!
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch floral medallions c. 1950s, 36″x36″, $14.00 from Antiquefabric.com.
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch
The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. Please add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. It was Penn Dutch designs with people motifs last week; this week it’s just the floral/hex/medallion/birds/hearts we’ve come to love. Above: Geo-Floral, Penn [...]
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch – People
Dutch Curtain from the collection of {kimmymade} on Flickr. Here‘s her interview from our Vintage Fabric Collectors series.
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch – People
It is getting to that point in the life of the Daily Swatch where I’m running out of ideas and must re-visit past themes! And today is my birthday so I’m going to pick one of my all-time favorites, Pennsylvania Dutch, and focus on prints with people in them. The example above is from Kitsch [...]
Daily Swatch: Reunited Colorways with Guest Curator Samantha
This week, we welcome guest curator Samatha, a fellow vintage fabric collector who co-writes the blog Two Green Chickens and runs the Etsy shop of the same name. She will be reuniting different colorways of the same vintage designs. Here’s to Christmas in summer. When I found this I loved that it wasn’t in a [...]
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
1973 calendar wall hanging with folky houses and a house blessing prayer, $12.00 from Etsy seller createjacksonville.
Opa!
Wurstfest is a 10-day festival of sausage, fried food, beer, music, dancing, and German everything held annually in New Braunfels, Texas. Central Texas has quite a few towns founded by German and Czech immigrants in the mid-19th century. If you’re a German speaker and you’ve never heard Texas German, you’re in for a treat. I [...]
Quilt Market Fall 2008: Japanese Fabric: Lecien
I didn’t get to talk to anyone at Lecien — they were busy with buyers every time I came by so I didn’t want to interrupt. So this is the only picture I managed! I entertained the thought of snatching this FQ pack up and running away screaming maniacally, tossing away any future I might [...]
My Folklore by Lecien
During the Pennsylvania Dutch run of the Daily Swatch, I loved hearing from native Pennsylvanians and everyone else who said they gained a new appreciation for the style. I foresee PA Dutch design enjoying a resurgence in textile design. The line My Folklore from Lecien has already whetted people’s appetites for folk motifs (it’s billed [...]
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch Week
We finish up the Pennsylvania Dutch/folky geometric weeks with these two great tablecloths sent in by Jan DiCintio of Daisy Janie and Scoutie Girl. She also posted about them here. Thanks so much Jan!
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch Week (Continued)
These are also mine — I didn’t realize how very PA Dutch they were until I rediscovered them looking through the vintage fabric Flickr pool! I love it when I score designs in multiple colorways.
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