Folky/Pennsylvania Dutch/Scandinavian motifs have been a trend in fabrics for a couple years now. Are you tired of it yet? Not me. These prints are part of the new Trefle offerings from Kokka. Spotted at Fabricworm — there are a few other colorways, including black and grey, and a cute little mushroom coordinate.
Close-up of a strawberry-studded, Pennsylvania Dutch border-print feedsack. This was made in several different colorways, including pink and blue. From the collection of {kimmymade}.
A vaguely Pennsylvania-Dutch style diamond pattern from my own collection.
Vintage weathervanes and medallions, from the collection of kimmymade (blog | shop) on Flickr.
Black ground Pennsylvania Dutch medallion print, from the feedsack collection of Just-a-mere on Flickr.
Three little examples from Rickrack.com — a floral in two colorways and a folky pink Pennsylvania Dutch print.
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!
Pennsylvania Dutch floral medallions c. 1950s, 36″x36″, $14.00 from Antiquefabric.com.
Fat quarter of Pennsylvania Dutch fabric on eBay, starting bid $3.99, ends Nov 29, 2009, 18:26:07 PST.
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 [...]
Dutch Curtain from the collection of {kimmymade} on Flickr. Here‘s her interview from our Vintage Fabric Collectors series.
Salvation Army vintage fabric find from the collection of marymademe on Flickr.
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