Posts tagged ‘vintage fabric’

Roses for Your Weekend

Happy weekend everyone! I’m going to try to catch up on some sleep … you? ( 1960s painterly rose on blue cotton, from Retro Age Vintage Fabrics )

The British brand Horrockses is re-launching this month! See my previous posts on Horrockses. “Cotton that looks like silk” from Reese Scannell in Australia (via Red Pepper Quilts) Casey’s Elegant Musings on Sourcing Vintage Fabric (and new fabric for vintage styles) Previews Tanya Whelan’s new book (out in December) Tilly strike-offs from Daisy Janie Circa [...]

Milk Fabric

Milk and sleep are the only things I’m able to think about these days, so it’s kind of funny that this story on milk fabric has popped up (via Spoonflower on Twitter). With the rising cost of cotton and the growing interest in more environmentally friendly textiles, maybe milk fabric will catch on. Well, the [...]

Summer Vacay

This is a little scrap of vintage map/vacation-themed fabric from my stash — I love the wild, summery-sweet color scheme. (Sorry about the wrinkles though.) I’d upload it to Kuler for you, but they’re down for redesign at the moment.

BunnyBunnybyPinks

I posted about BunnyBunnybyPinks more than a year ago, but had forgotten about them completely till I stumbled across their crazy sweet 60s-inspired fabrics again on Etsy. So I assume you have forgotten too and would appreciate the reminder! This is a brick-and-mortar and webshop in Osaka, Japan that produces their own exclusive fabric collection [...]

Vintage Folk Twill

These are vintage twill curtains that I bought from a thrift store years ago (and debated at the time whether I liked the print enough to buy it — crazy lady!). Now I love how it’s Penn-Dutch folky but a little less sweet/a little more wild than usual midcentury folk prints. I recently turned some [...]

Seeking Vintage Terry Cloth

Monique of Original Mischief (Flickr) is currently writing a book for Schiffer Publishing about vintage terry cloth! She has close to 4-500 examples of vintage terry cloth patterns in her own collection but is looking for more to feature in the book. So she wrote to me asking for help from True Up readers. She’s [...]

Full Swing Textiles

{ Moonlight in the Pines } OK, how have I managed to get this far along without ever hearing of Full Swing Textiles? Full Swing started out as a vintage shop in Newport, Rhode Island in the 1980s. In 1986, they purchased a lot of 16,000 yards of deadstock vintage barkcloth fabric. As that [...]

Gombar’s Fabrics

I’ve never been there, save passing through on a train ride from D.C. to New York, but I have a thing for Pennsylvania. If I had to take off and move somewhere, site unseen, it’d be there. I don’t know. I think it springs from my love of The Office and Penn Dutch … but [...]

Vintage Dress Fabrics and Rayons at Sharon’s

Sharon’s Antiques Vintage Fabrics (Rickrack.com) just added a dress fabric section to the site, with lengths of lightweight prints actually long enough to make dresses from. And while you’re there, don’t miss the vintage rayons page (a selection of which is shown above), or the rest of the site for that matter, full of amazing [...]

Jane Foster on Etsy

UK designer Jane Foster, who makes amazing screenprints, cushions, and sewn toys, is offering remnant packs of vintage fabrics on Etsy. These include rare European juvenile prints from the 60s-70s from manufacturers like Dekoplus, Graziela, and Heals — fabrics you never ever come across in the U.S. So grab them while you can!

Vintage Americana

Let the eagle soar! Americana, both from Hillary Lang on Flickr Americana Cheater Print, from Dotty Logic on Flickr Americana Print Feedsack from Antiquefabric.com Kitchen Novelty print from VintageTreasureHuntn on Etsy.

Vintage Plaid & Check

Navy plaid feedsack from kimmymade on Flickr 1940s feedsack from Donnaflower.com (sold) Red, yellow, and gray plaid yardage from Dewitt & Co. Two from Pindot.net in Japan

Interview: Darlene Zimmerman on Betty Dear, Feedsacks, and More

Most people know Darlene Zimmerman from her enormously popular, feedsack-inspired collections for Robert Kaufman, but this tour de force (and very lovely lady) also happens to be a designer of patterns and quilting tools, a published textile historian, an in-demand leader of quilting workshops, and a very accomplished quilter. We are grateful that she found [...]

Review: Wee Wonderfuls: 24 Dolls to Sew and Love

This is part II of Hillary Lang’s blog tour. See here for part I, the giveaway! — Kim K. Wee Wonderfuls: 24 Dolls to Sew and Love by Hillary Lang STC Craft, 2010 If, like me, you’re one of the legions of longtime fans of crafting blogger/goddess Hillary Lang and her influential work at Wee [...]