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:: September 1, 2006 Fabric Friday: Vintage Fabric From the States
This week I received this book from Giant Robot -- I wish I could remember the blog on which I first heard about it so I could give proper credit. It's a lovely little book with an English title on the cover but (sparse) Japanese text within. Not much text, though, can be found in its 200+ pages. There are hundreds of fabrics inside, grouped by sections such as "Dutch," "Checks," "Kitchen," "Ribbon," and "Kids." I was slightly scandalized at first because I recognized some of the fabrics from my own collection as well as Hillary's, as seen on our vintage fabric Flickr group. I mean, I thought they were lifted directly from our Flickr photos. But there are some additional stylized shots of the fabrics with cute vintage tchotzkes and Caucasian babies, so my conclusion was that whoever put the book together must have bought their stuff from the same eBay sellers as I did. Not as if I have any claim to these prints anyway!
It's absolutely a book worth having if you're a vintage fabric fan. I like it especially because there's nothing showy or capital-D Designer in here -- just everyday vintage prints grouped and catalogued in a simple, beautiful way.
posted by in Books , Fabric , Fabric Friday :: Comments (6) :: link :: January 4, 2006 Bookular Acquisitions
Oh my lord you have to get All Wrapped Up: Groovy Gift Wrap Of The 1960's
I also bought myself the Portland Super Crafty
For Xmas my mom got me the and the aforementioned Hip Handbags posted by in Books :: Comments (6) :: link :: June 18, 2005 Textile Reference Library
Building a Textile Reference Library is a column by Joan Kiplinger that lists probably every book ever, vintage and new, that is about textile history, collecting, manufacturing, terminology, you name it. Kiplinger also runs a vintage fabric email list, through which I found this link. :: May 31, 2005 Quilting Books
The Denyse Schmidt book, Denyse Schmidt Quilts: 30 Colorful Quilt And Patchwork Patterns is available for pre-order on Amazon now. The cover is up and shows some of what we can expect. I can't wait for September 30, hoo doggy. That reminded me to look up whether Fun Quilts' book is out yet, and it is! I'm ordering The Modern Quilt Workshop (by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle) right away. Here's the cover ...
posted by in Books , Quilting :: Comments (2) :: link :: March 20, 2005 Bags of Bags
I think I've got the basics of bag construction down, but my projects have been pretty plain so far. It's time to move up to embellishment, but I've got an imagination impairment. Fortunately, there is help. Did you know that there are not one but two weblogs dedicated solely to purses? There is The Bag Blog and Purseuing. Likewise, there are two books on handbags (with similar names) that look intriguing: Hip Handbags : Creating & Embellishing 40 Great-Looking Bags by Valerie Schrader, which I thumbed through in a bookstore recently and would very much like to have. It provides a bunch of basic shapes for bags and goes though their construction, then gives detailed instructions on how to embellish/modify the basic pattern to achieve very different looks. And there's The Hip Handbag Book: 20 Easy to Make Totes, Purses and Bags by Sherri Haab, which I know nothing about but looks similar. While I'm on the bag subject, I wanted to give a shout-out to the mesh Mexican Shopping Bag. I have a few of these that I got in Mexico with local tourist attractions printed on them. They can be found in many an import shop in the U.S. for inflated prices, but not so inflated that they're not worth it.
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