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Vintage Fabric Style: Stylish Ideas and Projects Using Quilts and Flea-Market Finds in Your Home

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Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small

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Vintage fabrics are the latest trend and who can resist them? Antique quilts, funky 1950s tablecloths, fine old linens, intriguing scraps of velvet and lace...there's more available than you know what to do with. Now Vintage Fabric Style presents chic ideas and projects that incorporate these fabrics into beautiful home accessories to help create your personal style. Blending their specialties, textiles expert Lucinda Ganderton and stylist Rose Hammick gives step-by-step instructions for inspiring projects, such as transforming an old piece of patchwork into county-style curtains, making a luxurious comforter cover from old damask napkins, and turning old family cast-offs into a lovely baby's quilt. Photographer Catherine Gratwicke uses her background in textile design to focus on each project both close-up and in its environment. Vintage Fabric Style is so inspirational, you'll run out of hand-me-downs before you run out of ideas.

Hidden in grandmothers' sewing boxes, piled high in flea-market stall or hiding out in the back of your linen closet...vintage fabrics in every style, color and condition are just waiting to be transformed into beautiful home accessories. In Vintage Fabric Style, textiles and soft-furnishings expert Lucinda Ganderton and stylist Rose Hammick suggest a multitude of creative ways to use these treasures - from showing how to transform an old piece of patchwork into country-style curtains to making a sturdy apron from an old pair of jeans.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.9
EAN: 9781841724164
ISBN: 1841724165
Label: Ryland Peters & Small
Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Studio: Ryland Peters & Small


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Very little to offer and poor choices for expanded instructions. -
I wanted to like this book! But if you have craft experience, it's essentially useless. The few sets of instructions include: a drawstring bag, VERY simple apron, a duvet cover made from napkins, a baby quilt, a pillow cover (also patchwork) and handkerchief curtain...hm, more patchwork! You can get much better books on most of those very easily and have more than a double page spread of instructions or a single photo for inspiration. The drawstring bag does have a round bottom with piping but that's as complex as it gets.

There are 'hints' to keep separate scissors for paper and cloth, to wind embroidery floss on cardboard bobbins, and to store your vintage fabrics in a lovely antique cupboard!

So why did I pick this up and bring it home? Somehow I spotted the only 3 things of interest immediately and thought that was a fair representation of the contents. On page 64 there is a baby blue child's shirt cut down from an adult shirt. Handstiched with reverse seams (exposed raw edges). How current, how green! How lovely to find something vintage aimed at a boy child (possibly)! It's not even mentioned in the text, just the info in the photo caption. On page 81 a wool wrap for a french press coffee pot which matches the egg cozies on 78. No mention of fulling (making felt from previously woven wool vs felting which is done with unstructured fiber).

Published in 2003 but what was vintage then is still vintage. Just not a useful book. Thank goodness I can take this back.

Beautiful book. -
A beautiful book with great photos and ideas. There are instructions for a number of projects and an idea section in the back. Good for anyone who loves to look at photos of vintage items for inspiration.

love of vintage -
This book is somewhat interesting if you like looking at pictures, but don't expect too much inspiration if you are a seasoned sewer. And, if you take any decorating magazines you will have seen much better pictures than what is in this book. Definitely not a book you will want to keep for reference, because it is not detailed enough. A lot of outdoor ideas if you like to use fabrics in that way. Also ideas like: covers for hot water bottles, coffee pots, books, and clothes hangers. Make bags to hold laundry and toys. The rest of the book shows kitchens and bedrooms using towels and spreads with vintage, or vintage "look" fabrics.

Rethink Your Use of Fabrics -
I needed the ideas in this book to use the vintage lace that I'd collected and the stacks of old quilts hidden away in the closet. These were things that attracted me at flea markets and yard sales, but then I had trouble working them into my decor.
The idea of hanging antique clothing on the wall like a piece of art really appeals.
This is a great book for any fabric-aholic out there.

There are ideas for every room of the house -

Lucinda Ganderton and Rose Hammick's Vintage Fabric Style uses gorgeous color photos by Catherine Gratwicke to embellish the authors' discussions of incorporating vintage fabrics into a modern home. There are ideas for every room of the house, plenty of step-by-step projects, and plenty of insights on fabric qualities and project suitability. Bright photos everywhere make for fabulous examples.

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