hills and valleys

the landscape in fabric is something i feel we don't see much of today. it seems like the heyday of these prints was the 1940s, perfect on cold rayons or on feedsacks printed with farm scenes (how appropriate!)

i imagine it would take a very skilled textile artist to create dense scene repeats like this of the british guard:

better red than dead?

or would you never be caught dead wearing red?

a lovely 30's ikat-style print

atomic olives for your next cocktail party

reminds me of horrockses fabric, but simpler

though it's fancier than the book, perhaps this is an "old man and the sea"-based print?

more tidbits

quite literal tidbits actually. i thought i'd dedicate a post to all the beautiful fabric that i found on clothing. there were no other images of the fabric flat, so i just saved the picture of the clothing. something is better than nothing, plus after background cleanup, they make a nice set of odd shapes.

this rayon is especially poignant for some reason. it's a bunch of little hands and faces giving the thumbs-up sign. i think this garment is from before or during WWII and i imagine the woman who made or wore this putting it on to help her face the world during those dark days.

tidbits

it's been awhile since i've updated, due to being discombobulated from moving and going back to my old job. no theme really today, but more of a color scheme:

this was a darling 40's dress on ebay. missed the bid ending.

love anything involving the alphabet- wish there were more pictures of the other letters.

too cool.

this is for my new CATS! two ex-feral cats named sonny boy and henderson.

yeehaw!

... giddy up, get 'er done, and all them other sayings. here we have a plethora of western-themed fabrics. this is appropriate since i had recently thrown a cowboys and indians party- observe:

i made my slim dress from a 1950s butterick pattern in a juvenile fabric from around the same period.

it seems like many of these fabrics were aimed towards kids. perhaps this has something to do with the popularity of roy rogers, gene autry and the general romance of the west back then.

i'm started to notice that there's certain color groupings for certain themes the more i post on here. for example, the circus colors leaned towards pink, turquoise, and yellow. here, the western fabrics are red, blue, yellow, green- very basic. which is why i particularly like this SEERSUCKER- gray, brown, chartreuse, tomato red.