Tag: 1950’s
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Chair Upholstery – What People make with Vintage Fabric.
Vintage 1950s Sanderson linen union fabric ‘lytton’ has been used to cover two vintage chairs. Sara took weeks re-building and covering these chairs at her upholstery class. What a brilliant job she has done. Linen union fabric is a blend of linen and cotton, making it very strong and durable, so ideal for upholstery work.…
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Sanderson – Mid Century Fabric
Arthur Sanderson and sons fabric have been in production for many years. Opening in 1860, making wallpaper , after a few years in the early 1990s, they began producing furnishing fabric. They are still in production, bringing out new designs as well as the ever popular traditional designs. In the early 2000s Sanderson reprinted several…
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20th Century Rayon Dress Making Fabric
Considered the oldest manufactured fabric, rayon is made from cellulose ( often wood pulp), and thought of as semi-synthetic. There are several different ways of processing the cellulose each producing slightly different fabrics such as viscose, modal, lyocell and tencel. Known as artificial silk when it was first introduced in the late 1800’s early 19o0’s, it…
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David Whitehead & Sons Fabrics
The Lancashire textile company David Whitehead & Sons originally set up in 1815, came to prominence in the 1950’s having exhibited at the Festival of Britain in 1951. The company produced some wonderful fabric during the 1950’s by artists and designers such as John Piper, Marian Mahler, Jaqueline Groag, Terence Conran and Henry Moore. Many can be found in the…
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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 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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