{ Bulbous } These fabrics by legendary post-war Swedish designer Stig Lindberg are produced by Ljungbergs and are available for purchase directly from the Ljungbergs webshop, and from Funkis in Australia. They are a heavyweight cotton-linen blend and are about 60″ (150cm) wide. { Fruktlåda } { Melodi } { Tallyho }
These are vintage twill curtains that I bought from a thrift store years ago (and debated at the time whether I liked the print enough to buy it — crazy lady!). Now I love how it’s Penn-Dutch folky but a little less sweet/a little more wild than usual midcentury folk prints. I recently turned some [...]
{ Designs by Lucienne Day. L-R: Graphica, Riga, Spectators, Trio. } The Centre for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art offers a commercial digital textile printing service, and, under the name Classic Textiles, reproduces designs from some of the U.K.’s most prominent and influential textile designers. Lucienne Day herself selected the 12 designs [...]
This was one of those unexpected surprises that make Market such a treat. David Textiles has never really been on my radar, but their full-page ad in the Market program for their collection of reproductions from the V&A Collection made me drop what I was doing and head straight to their booth. They are reproducing [...]
A textile designer makes the front page of Google! Josef Frank, architect and father of modern Scandinavian design, would have been 125 years old today. New Vintage Lady is showing the fashion and textiles pages from vintage department store catalogs every Sunday. (via Retro Age Vintage Fabrics) Deborah of Whipstitch has an amazing post on [...]
Vicky of Something Fine (True Up interview from the Vintage Fabric collector series here) frequently posts her vintage finds to Flickr, and this one received a comment from Bob Pedley, who worked at the company that produced it in the 1950s-60s, Crabtree Fabrics Ltd. Vicky then interviewed him, and that interview is here. At the [...]
Just about every medallion print so far has been very regimented and symmetrical, so I was delighted to come across this beatnik midcentury mod take on the theme. It’s called Moderne from the company Crestloom, and it’s for sale from Urban Burp (who has a new shopping cart feature on their website — fabulous!). Not [...]
More mushrooms! This is “Wild Mushroom,” available from New House Textiles, a U.K.-based, family-owned company with a history reaching back to 1921. They sell homewares and accessories, including the herring collection that has made the rounds of the design blog world lately. The collections are originals reproduced from midcentury Swedish designs from the company Almedahls. [...]
On the Bee Square Blog: Monday Giveaway – Japanese Charm Pack 2 On the Textile Blog: The 1970s and Textra Furnishing Fabrics On the Rickrack Rag: Feedsack Friday – Paisley Prints On the Revival Fabrics Blog: Vintage Feedsack History On the Sew, Mama, Sew! Blog: Stash Interview ~ Manda from Tree Fall On the Distintive [...]
Christmas textiles by my hero, Tammis Keefe. Images collected from misc. eBay auctions, some current. More Tammis Keefe Christmas designs here.
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 [...]
Heather Moore (Skinny LaMinx) has a new tea towel design out – LAVA, inspired by mid-century West German ceramics. Available in two colorways from her Etsy shop. LAVA also comes in tote bag form. I am also drooling over the Stig Lindberg Pottery bag she posted about here. And Made With Love by Hannah has [...]
Andy from Reference Library posted this 1958 fabric, Showers, by Alexander Girard. So lovely and classic in its simplicity. My previous post about Girard.
I’ll wrap up these two weeks of vintage bird prints with some bird textiles by my superhero Tammis Keefe. Here’s a previous post about her. See more Tammis Keefe birds here, and more Tammis Keefe in general at the Tammis Keefe Textiles Flickr group.
Feed Dog (blog | Flickr) has lots of interesting barkcloth pieces, including some unusual novelty prints, like the Mother Goose one above.
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