New Release Tuesday is my periodic roundup of new fabric sightings. These fresh arrivals have started to arrive in fabric shops and are ready to buy. Retailers, as always, if you carry any of these collections, let us know in the comments! Bryant Park by Khristian A. Howell for Anthology Fabrics Bonjour by Diane Kappa [...]
She would have been 97 today. Celebrate by picking up some of the Tammis Keefe Tribute Collection from Michael Miller fabrics, which is just now hitting the shops!
If you’ve read True Up or my old craft blog Dioramarama for any amount of time, you probably know that midcentury textile designer Tammis Keefe holds a very special place in my heart (here’s a link to all my posts tagged with her name). Handkerchiefs were Keefe’s speciality but she was a surface designer in [...]
Hannah of Made With Love By Hannah emailed me this picture of a fabric panel with a pre-printed pattern for a circle skirt. The instructions recommend that you “wear over stiff petticoat for best effect.” (Sweet.) The mama cat is the same as the one on the Tammis Keefe tea towel (pictured below), but Hannah [...]
Tammis Keefe butterflies and dragonflies tea towel. Image from some eBay seller years ago.
Tammis Keefe dog themed silk scarf — this has just gone over my spending limit, but if I can’t have it, a True Up reader should. Less than two hours left on this auction, so hurry!
Noel Tea Towel designed by Luther Travis, from – julia – on Flickr. I see some echoes of Tammis Keefe’s Noel hankie designs — I wonder which came first?
Christmas textiles by my hero, Tammis Keefe. Images collected from misc. eBay auctions, some current. More Tammis Keefe Christmas designs here.
I’ll wrap up these two weeks of vintage bird prints with some bird textiles by my superhero Tammis Keefe. Here’s a previous post about her. See more Tammis Keefe birds here, and more Tammis Keefe in general at the Tammis Keefe Textiles Flickr group.
I have posted about Tammis Keefe before. I still don’t own any of her designs … her hankies average about $10 + shipping on eBay so I haven’t been able to justify it. The next best thing is to collect images, so I just gathered any decently sized image I could find from current eBay [...]
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 [...]
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