It is getting to that point in the life of the Daily Swatch where I’m running out of ideas and must re-visit past themes! And today is my birthday so I’m going to pick one of my all-time favorites, Pennsylvania Dutch, and focus on prints with people in them. The example above is from Kitsch [...]
Erin Kennedy‘s debut collection for Andover Fabrics hit the stores last month. It’s called Painted Posies and I love its Penn Dutch Modern feel. Here’s how she describes the collection on her blog: I love painting, and over the last few years I’ve gravitated more and more to decorative and repetitive imagery. While fabric has [...]
The themes: Birds, and also border prints and even Pennsylvania Dutch. The fabric: Two rooster border prints, from the collection of twolilacs on Flickr.
This week, we welcome guest curator Samatha, a fellow vintage fabric collector who co-writes the blog Two Green Chickens and runs the Etsy shop of the same name. She will be reuniting different colorways of the same vintage designs. Here’s to Christmas in summer. When I found this I loved that it wasn’t in a [...]
Here is a particularly awesome Pennsylvania Dutch-themed cheater print, from the particularly awesome collection of Bella Dia (blog) on Flickr.
1958 is our year, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang. This is the grand finale of this month of calendar tea towels. Hillary posted about her beautiful 1958 Pennsylvania Dutch-motif towel here. I hope you’ve been inspired to go find (or make) one for your year.
1958 linen Pennsylvania Dutch-themed calendar towel designed by Francis G. Dearden, $15 from Rubylane seller Chez Marianne.
Here’s a 1971 Vera calendar tea towel with Pennsylvania Dutch-inspired motifs, for auction on eBay (current bid $5 with free shipping, ends Jan-25-09 15:13:20 PST).
Sweet 1964 Pennsylvania Dutch-themed calendar tea towel, from the collection of little Miss Vintage on Flickr.
1970 Pennsylvania Dutch calendar, from rubylane seller Lisa’s Vintage Treasures. There are three towels printed on one length of fabric.
Two snowflake-like vintage geometric prints (1 | 2), from Niesz Vintage Fabric on Flickr.
We finish up the Pennsylvania Dutch/folky geometric weeks with these two great tablecloths sent in by Jan DiCintio of Daisy Janie and Scoutie Girl. She also posted about them here. Thanks so much Jan!
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.
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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