Have you heard of www.spoonflower.com? It's a site where you can design your own fabric or choose from thousands of others designed by others. After you find your design, you can choose to have it made in one of over a dozen fabrics. So you could have matching drapes and upholstery, for example. Sharon C.
-----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Lavolta Press Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:57 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is h-costume still going? I'm still here and have been since h-costume started. I am not sewing any garments because I have to make all the drapes for a 5,000-square-foot house my husband and I bought in June and have not moved into yet. (Not to mention a lot of time-consuming stuff like picking out paint colors and Arts & Crafts cabinet knobs.) Not a fixer-upper but lots of work being done, like complete kitchen remodeling, installing hardwood floors in several rooms that did not have them already, and painting. Then the landscaping needed work too. Everything takes longer than it was supposed to. The house is a 1940s Colonial Revival and we are furnishing it combined Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau style. Many features like oak flooring and a fireplace with green tile carry over quite well. The sellers took all the window coverings, which we probably wouldn't have liked anyway. Some of the windows are fairly strange sizes and we ordered historic reproduction custom-made roller shades for most of them. Which BTW turned out not to cost any more than most of the ready-made shades I looked at, and they're actually cotton instead of polyester. The challenge I am facing is getting the fabric for the drapes. It seems I want a fairly flat look, probably 1 1/2 times fullness. Since this is not a bungalow, I figured a general-Victorian-look brocade is OK, and I have a lot of that in my stash, though in many cases not enough for a window. And I had some embroidered linen I bought online that turned out to have motifs too large for clothes. For three rooms that only have one window, what with only 1 1/2 times fullness I managed to squeeze three windows' worth of drapes out of stash fabric. The rest of the fabric is proving to be a pain to find. So if anyone knows where to buy repro Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau drapery fabric in quantities up to 18 yards for a single room, I'd LOVE to know. It seems I can use a textured fabric such as dupioni or linen (preferably stenciled linen) if I have to, but I wanted to furnish some rooms with Art Nouveau brocades. Have to say I think the average "bungalow" decorating book (trendier than just Arts & Crafts) is somewhat misleading on recommending no drapes at all or maybe only sheer drapes if you must have something. The few period pictures mostly show the usual set of lace drapes, outer drapes, sometimes a valance as well. The Victorians and Edwardians didn't want the sun full on their faces at dawn, or the neighbors peering into their windows, any more than we do. Fran Lavolta Press Books of historic clothing patterns www.lavoltapress.com On 12/17/2015 9:36 AM, aqua...@patriot.net wrote: > You're welcome! > > I suppose people could say what they are working on. > > Right now I'm working on switching things to a new e-mail address. :-) > > So, the url below doesn't do anything. I suppose I could try the sub and > unsub options. Does anyone have the info for that? > > I tried "help" but the message bounced. > > Thanks! > -Carol > > > >> Thanks for letting me know you are all here. >> Monica Spence >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On >> Behalf Of Robin Netherton >> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:31 AM >> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> >> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is h-costume still going? >> >> I'm here -- but my first post saying so (from an alternate address by >> mistake) was rejected. >> >> >> On 12/17/2015 12:17 AM, Carol Kocian wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is h-costume still going? I’m trying to change my e-mail address for >>> it, but the link below does not work. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> -Carol >>> >>> >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> h-costume mailing list >>>> h-costume@mail.indra.com >>>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> h-costume mailing list >>> h-costume@mail.indra.com >>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >>> >> >> -- >> Robin Netherton >> Editor, Medieval Clothing and Textiles >> ro...@netherton.net >> voice: (314) 439-1222 >> Life is just a bowl of queries. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> h-costume@mail.indra.com >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> h-costume@mail.indra.com >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
