Layers of a Luxury Look
This week I accompanied my husband to a conference at a resort hotel in the Texas Hill Country. Through a reservations mix-up, we ended up in one half of a luxury suite! It… Continue reading
Category Archive: Household Textiles
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We Interrupt Spring Cleaning…
As I have mentioned before, after our daughters grew up and moved out, my husband and I downsized from our typical suburban home, into a cottage that his family had built on their… Continue reading
Flourishing in Flour Sacks
A year ago I did a post about a child’s flour sack dress that I picked up at an antique store. The dress intrigues me because the front and back are highly contrasting,… Continue reading
Check on Stripes
I’ve had these yarns for probably twenty years. I must have woven up all the pretty colors, and somehow all I have left are cottons and linens in the basic primary colors –… Continue reading
Textile Trends Trivia – the Answers
Yesterday I gave a little pop quiz. I’m a former teacher, I can do that. Let’s go over the quiz and see how you did! Q 1) The French artist was named Trouvelot… Continue reading
Textile Trend Trivia
While the tide of fashion rolls on, some innovations never catch the wave of public favor or profit. They end up as fashion footnotes. Here is a little quiz about textile trends that… Continue reading
On the Trail of a Textile Legend
In the late 1800s, Candace Wheeler was a textile designer, a business partner of Louis Comfort Tiffany, owner of her own design business, a writer, a founder of a rural artists’ colony and… Continue reading
Textile Toys
I like to use old toys for Christmas decorations. The red horse was handed down to me when I was a baby, from a neighbor of my grandmother’s. My mother restuffed it and… Continue reading
Christmas Cheer
It’s a little too warm to really feel like Christmas, but I am starting to decorate a little. One of my favorite decorations is this vintage fabric. I don’t normally decorate with gold,… Continue reading
Color Party, 1905-style
Working on the color blocks quilt reminded me of my favorite idea from that wonderful one-dollar bargain book, Bright Ideas for Entertaining, by Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott, 1905. Obviously these people were not… Continue reading