tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2762204794785249592024-03-14T01:11:29.894-07:00vintage fabrics for today's lifestylehellish designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721539634508010959noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276220479478524959.post-74960643288085096452011-08-10T05:20:00.000-07:002011-08-10T05:20:06.143-07:00Have a look at hellish designsHi<br />
I'm very flattered to have several followers of this blog particularly as it was a bit of a mistake!<br />
I wasn't happy with the result so began another blog<a href="http://www.hellish-designs.blogspot.com/">www.hellish-designs.blogspot.com</a> where you'll see both the apron post and a more recent one.<br />
Hope you don't mind swapping your allegiance..promise to update frequently..and thanks for your interest <br />
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hellish designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721539634508010959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276220479478524959.post-16173950434586511462011-07-28T02:52:00.000-07:002011-07-28T03:51:39.295-07:00A new use for cotton sacks from the 40s<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KnmVq8iP0HU/TjEx9WnyxTI/AAAAAAAAAA4/tr0VwfLcgK8/s1600/DSCF1961.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KnmVq8iP0HU/TjEx9WnyxTI/AAAAAAAAAA4/tr0VwfLcgK8/s200/DSCF1961.JPG" t$="true" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I, like several other designers, have been buying and using Hungarian linen sacks for some years now..see my title image.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I love this heavily textured fabric which is great for upholstery, cushions and bags and my heart lifts every time I come across a pile of sacks at a fair.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b_ugN4a1lhE/TjE_Dzvv8EI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Svbb7szwUsg/s1600/new+camera+249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b_ugN4a1lhE/TjE_Dzvv8EI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Svbb7szwUsg/s320/new+camera+249.jpg" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">However I was really pleased recently to come across an English equivalent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A friend and fellow dealer from the <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">north west</place></state> was selling some cotton sacks which she had found on a local farm. I have always loved text on fabric and indeed most items so was interested in these examples.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5vhg4E0WVbU/TjEymfynfaI/AAAAAAAAAA8/MhMRgJlaKEE/s1600/new+camera+243.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5vhg4E0WVbU/TjEymfynfaI/AAAAAAAAAA8/MhMRgJlaKEE/s320/new+camera+243.jpg" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is my favourite and presumably dates from the second world war or soon after when paper was in short supply. The laundry is packing washing in sacks rather than brown paper and requiring a deposit for this; I can remember as a child the laundry man calling each week for our candy stripe sheets and shirts in the days before automatic washers and steam irons.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The bib of the apron brilliantly frames the text; note the French sign on my kitchen wall..another passion</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jl3iNw-nsRs/TjEy23cWsWI/AAAAAAAAABA/oR1lpXo71fk/s1600/new+camera+240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jl3iNw-nsRs/TjEy23cWsWI/AAAAAAAAABA/oR1lpXo71fk/s320/new+camera+240.jpg" t$="true" width="240" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I like the soft blue in the printing on this sack; I’ve made a simpler apron from this as it was a smaller piece</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t7S3nvl49dI/TjEzYsDzGeI/AAAAAAAAABE/x2hwmJLdUiI/s1600/new+camera+250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t7S3nvl49dI/TjEzYsDzGeI/AAAAAAAAABE/x2hwmJLdUiI/s320/new+camera+250.jpg" t$="true" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sadly this sack is much more faded, a shame because the calf in the image is charming. Again an apron which I think is fitting making a practical item to use today from a practical piece from the last century</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’m going to take these aprons along to my next fair in Market Harborough..see fairs dates for August on this blog….hope I’m not alone in loving them</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uot1CKUMvjk/TjE0XNOBRhI/AAAAAAAAABM/W61XD2-KZMo/s1600/new+camera+246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uot1CKUMvjk/TjE0XNOBRhI/AAAAAAAAABM/W61XD2-KZMo/s320/new+camera+246.jpg" t$="true" width="240" /></a></div>hellish designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721539634508010959noreply@blogger.com5