The Daily Swatch shows one piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. You are welcome to add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric Flickr Pools. I don’t know much about rayon other than it’s a garment fabric. It’s high time I found out more! It’s [...]
Also spotted on the Michael Miller website today, this crazy adorable, Mary Blair-Esque kids’ print called “Ring Around the Rosie.” I haven’t seen it in any shops yet … I’ll let you know when I do. Related posts: High As a Kite Fabric Spring Quilt Market 2009: Lantern Bloom, Whimsy, Summer Soiree, Mezzanine Spring Quilt [...]
Umbrella-sharing couple, from the collection of cluttershop on Flickr. Related posts: Daily Swatch: Two Weeks of Love Daily Swatch: Two Weeks of Love Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Two-Way Daily Swatch: Two Weeks of Love Daily Swatch: Two Weeks of Love
Vintage Fabric – Terrace Houses, from Vintage LOVE on Flickr. Related posts: Daily Swatch: Those 70s Colors Daily Swatch: Those 70s Colors Daily Swatch: Those 70s Colors Daily Swatch: Those 70s Colors Daily Swatch: Those 70s Colors
1950′s Fairground Fabric, from The Fabric of My Life (aka Donna Flower) on Flickr. Not quite circus, but adjunct to a circus. Also, freaking fantastic. Related posts: Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Two-Way Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Tossed
Circus ABC from Vintage Songbird on Flickr. I wonder what all the letters are. Related posts: Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Words and Letters
Circus Train, from Primrose Design on Flickr. I love the rough hand-drawn lines. Related posts: Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Circus Week Daily Swatch: Fruit Week Daily Swatch: Not Polka Dots Week
Ugh! So torn! A great black-background print … and four yards of it, for $24! But … clowns. They are clowns at their best and least scary, with horseshoe-shaped legs, even. But I don’t know if I can do clowns at all. If nobody else gets it (from Etsy seller eyeformodern), maybe I will. Related [...]
From one perennial theme in children’s fabric to another. (A week isn’t enough to cover either one thoroghly, but I’m open to sequels around here!) Vintage circus imagery even has its own Flickr group. Above: Vintage Circus, fabric from a curtain, from cherry tomato on Flickr. Add your vintage circus prints to the True Up [...]
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