Elephant Showers, a house collection from Timeless Treasures, is so retro-good, I may not need to shop for vintage fabric again. Well, that will never happen, but these happy 60s-70s prints made the thought at least cross my mind, so that’s saying something! { image courtesty Hawthorne Threads } Related posts: Timeless Treasures: Elephants on [...]
Green, Brown, Yellow & White Pattern Vintage Textile fromKaiser Tia on Flickr. Related posts: Daily Swatch: Vintage Sheets Daily Swatch: Vintage Sheets Daily Swatch: Vintage Sheets Daily Swatch: Vintage Sheets Daily Swatch: Vintage Sheets
Here’s a super crazy beach themed terrycloth, from Witsister on Flickr, who also has a well stocked vintage fabric shop on Etsy. Related posts: Daily Swatch: Terry Cloth Daily Swatch: Terry Cloth Daily Swatch: Terry Cloth Daily Swatch: Terrycloth Daily Swatch: Terry Cloth
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/or Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. Terry cloth is a uncut-pile weave fabric. Pile fabrics (which also include velvet and corduroy) are made with an extra set of yarn [...]
Vintage Peter Perrett fabric from the 1960s-70s, from catmadcarol on Flickr. It looks less breast-y in the other photos! Related posts: Daily Swatch: Psychedelic Week Daily Swatch: Psychedelic Daily Swatch: Psychedelic Week Daily Swatch: Psychedelic Daily Swatch: Folky Geometric Week
Here’s what inspired psychedelic week on the Daily Swatch: this new Beatles fabric line from Cranston Village. eQuilter has the entire collection for sale now, and I bet it’ll be a huge seller. If you see it elsewhere, please link to in the comments. The descriptions of the fabric on eQuilter contain the following: from [...]
King sized sheet from the 60s, from Robotic Kid on Flickr. It’s great, but who could get to sleep on this? Related posts: Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — One-Way Daily Swatch: Psychedelic Week Daily Swatch: Psychedelic Daily Swatch: Psychedelic Week Daily Swatch: Red White and Blue Week
Pippijoe coincidentally posted this fabric today. She writes: I just had to share this one bought for my sister’s first ‘big bed’. She is 32 and the doona cover is yet to be made. It was passed on to me for my son’s first big bed and is still stashed away. Family tradition. I’m not [...]
Mod shard Alps silk, from Retro Age Vintage Fabrics‘ Etsy shop, $24.99/yard. This is a genuine 1960s pure silk, manufactured in Italy for the European couture market. I’m not sure this is really “psychedelic” — or if there’s even an official definition of the term — but the eye-popping blacklight-poster-esque colors do it for me. [...]
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