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Collier Campbell Designs
On my treasure hunts for vintage fabrics, among my very favourite finds are the vibrant and colourful designs by Collier Campbell who I have admired for many years. The working design partnership of sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell started in the 1960’s producing work for Liberty, Heals, Habitat and many others. They founded their company together in 1979/80. Their…
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Pat Albeck – Textile designer
Pat Albeck has always been a favourite designer of mine, her career began in the 1950’s designing dress making fabric for Horrockses. Her designs influenced by Scandinavian textiles, French and Italian fashion fabrics. By the 1960’s she became well known for designing dress fabric for ‘dolly rockers’ one of the English boutique labels of the 1960’s, very…
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Vintage Jonelle Fabric from John Lewis
The first John Lewis store was opened in London in 1864. An up market store originally selling textiles and fabric, later selling a wide variety of items for the home. They introduced the Jonelle fabric range in 1937, since 2000 the name was dropped in favour of John Lewis. From the late 1940’s onwards they…
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What People Make with the Fabric I Sell – Sunbeam Jackie Parasols
Sunbeam Jackie from Cornwall make the most beautiful luxury handcrafted parasols. They used a wide range of vintage fabrics, dating from the 1920’s, a small amount of which they buy from us. Their latest collection includes one called ‘petunia’ using a Sanderson print ‘petunia trellis from the 1970’s and one of my favourites ‘the island’…
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What People Make with the fabric I sell – ‘The Village Hippy’ Gifts and Clothing
I met Lindsey of ‘The Village Hippy’ on facebook some time ago. Such a lovely person with a kind and positive outlook on life. She makes great bags, hangings and memo boards using vintage fabric, buttons and bindings. Here is one the memo boards she made with linen fabric she bought from me, the design is ‘flowers…
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Ideas for using Vintage Fabric – Patchwork Chairs
It take relatively little fabric to cover a chair so can be an inexpensive way of updating your living space if you have the time and patience. One of my first ever upholstery projects was covering an old wooden chair in Laura Ashley patchwork pieces for our first flat in the 1970’s.. I still have that chair…
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Vintage Heals Fabric from Winchester
We called in at Winchester on the way home from a short holiday by the sea recently. What an interesting place with some beautiful buildings and a long history, ….. As always we searched the local shops for vintage fabric and came across ‘Winchester antiques centre’ in one of the back streets. We found treasure…
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Ideas for Using Vintage Fabric – 1950’s Style Striped Dresses
I always loved the dresses my mum wore in the summer when I was little. The ones I remember most were striped, with full skirts and a fitted bodice, sometimes the stripes would be horizontal on the skirt and vertical on the bodice. Here’s our family in 1958, with Mum in one of her striped…
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