Daily Swatch: Ships and Sea Week
Fishies, from KitschDesigns on Flickr.
Posts tagged ‘geometric’
Daily Swatch: Psychedelic
King sized sheet from the 60s, from Robotic Kid on Flickr. It’s great, but who could get to sleep on this?
Daily Swatch: Not Polka Dots Week
From Primrose Design on Flickr — see more of her dotty vintage fabrics too.
Daily Swatch: Not Polka Dots Week
This one is from my collection. Red, yellow, turquoise, black, and white — sounds so ugly in writing but it’s is one of my absolute favorites.
Daily Swatch: Not Polka Dots Week
1. Wacky Dots, 2. Confetti, 3. Cotton Bursts, 4. Easter Eggs, 5. Sand Dollars & Olives, 6. Strawberry or Apple?, 7. Loops, 8. Blue Bubbles, 9. Green Olives, 10. Farm Life OK, swatches-plural today. Ms. candyconnection22 has the. most. incredible. collection of vintage fabric on Flickr, including all these dots. I couldn’t pick just one.
Daily Swatch: Not Quite Polka Dots Week
Page from Vintage Fabric From the States, copyright 2005 Pie Books — available in the U.S. from You Work for Them. This week’s theme is dots. Not polka dots really, but variations thereof. Multiple colors or sizes. Repeats other full-drop and half-drop. Other motifs thrown in, but the dots are still the main players. Doughnuts, [...]
Daily Swatch: Barkcloth Week
Vintage Fifties barkcloth curtain panel, with attached brass rings, a deep 3 1/4″ bottom hem, and hemmed edges. 45″ inches x 45″ inches square. $50, from joules on Etsy.
Daily Swatch: Red White and Blue Week
Three from Etsy … From the Tin Thimble, $18 for 1.5 yard piece From Zaama, 14 for one-yard piece From Sweet Poppy, $12 for one yard, 16″ piece, poly-cotton blend
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.
Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch Week (Continued)
Four from eBay! Please buy them so that I can’t. Vintage 50s Kitsch Folk Art Barns & Flower People Fabric, 36″x60″, $16.99 buy-it-now Vintage Cute Dutch Couple Folk Art Cotton Fabric, 36″x44″, $9.00 buy-it-now I’m not wild about the kids in this border print but the rest of it is great. Three yards, auction ends [...]
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