Barbara Brackman's America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890 provides some history on 18th and 19th century textiles, with example pictures of the prints and dyes used way back when. The information will definitely help me be smarter when looking over old fabrics and quilts. Although the sample swatch pics she put in the book can't cover all the fabric prints of two centuries, she provides enough for me to make comparisons, like so:
She also includes instructions to make several quilts from the era, which tempt me terribly. But I have another project brewing, so for now I'll just read and admire.
3 comments:
But you didn't say where that pattern falls in the dating!
Oops, sorry! Most of the calico fabrics are very close to what was being produced in the 1880's.:)
That's lovely! Then most of the other fabrics, even if they're not in her book, would probably be around that time or a bit later, I would think. I think brown in all its forms had a resurgence in the early 1900's.
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