Tag: vintage fabric
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Weekly Blog – number 1 – Five year Anniversary
I can’t believe that it is five years since Vintage Fabric became an proper business. Where has the time gone? To mark the occasion I have decided to start a short weekly blog. The weather has been glorious this week, sunny and warm, perfect for the Easter Monday Flea market at Malvern. It was massive.. Rog my husband…
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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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My Vintage Fabric Stash
Bundles of fabric from my collection.This one include several spotted fabrics, the green in silk, the navy rayon and the bottom one cotton. 1940’s fabrics inc early Liberty silk and 50’s crepe.  The one below has some lovely pieces of 1940’s rayon and cotton, French toile and old Liberty checked silk.  This pile…
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