Daily Swatch: Barkcloth Week
Feed Dog (blog | Flickr) has lots of interesting barkcloth pieces, including some unusual novelty prints, like the Mother Goose one above.
Posts tagged ‘midcentury’
Daily Swatch: Barkcloth Week
45″ x 73″, straight from the bolt, from eBay seller trash-queen. Auction ends tomorrow (7/10/08).
Barkcloth Week: Melinamade
“Mobility” in white “Boomerang” in gray Melinamade makes reproduction/retro 1950s-70s fabrics, wallpaper, glassware, and accessories (Tiki Christmas stocking, anyone?). The designs are hand-screenprinted on new, drapery/upholstery-grade barkcloth. The price range for fabric is about $40/yard — I’d call that affordable high-end! Minimum order is one yard. “Jetson” in pink
Great Designers: Alexander Girard
Fruit Tree — Green on White by Alexander Girard, from maXimo inc. Reference Library posted some original Alexander Girard fabric from eBay, and it prompted me to do a little Googling as I don’t know that much about Girard. maXimo inc. out of Albuquerque, NM (Girard’s home state) has Girard fabric (both screenprinted and woven [...]
What Real Eames Looks Like
I mentioned in my post about fabric hunting on eBay that people use “Eames” or “Eames era” to describe any vaguely midcentury fabric (and some that aren’t even vaguely midcentury, for that matter). Well here is some actual Eames fabric, spotted over at the esteemed Reference Library. It is a 1951 sample of “Sea Things” [...]
Tammis Keefe
Who Belongs to Whom? My mom got me the completely awesome book Handkerchiefs: A Collector’s Guide for my birthday. The most prolific and well-known designer in the handkerchief world appears to be Tammis Keefe. I couldn’t find out much about her, except that she died too young, at age 40. She also designed other linens [...]
Lucienne Day
Starting in the early 50s, Lucienne Day brought abstract design to fabric. She and her husband Robin were a mid-century design power duo, often referred to as the British Eameses (only I think her textiles are far more interesting than those of her Yankee counterparts). Her designs were so groundbreaking and enduring that people still [...]
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