More Vintage Cotton
From A Collection Of Fabric Dated 1914
Printed Cotton 1914
From an album of vintage and retro textile samples dated 1900 – 1920.
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Printed Cotton 1914
From an album of vintage and retro textile samples dated 1900 – 1920.
See a selection here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Printed Cotton Dated May 1914
From a scrapbook of vintage and retro fabric and printed cotton textiles collected between 1900 and 1920.
From our collection of vintage and retro textiles, fabric swatch documents and vintage woven textiles, here is a selection of vintage printed cotton swatch documents from a scrapbook of vintage fabrics collected between 1900 and 1920.
Vintage Printed Cotton Conversational "Puppets" 1914
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Coming very soon, Virtual Portobello Road online. Some smart people are signing up dealers for a virtual Portobello Road Antique Market where each dealer will have a page of their own to post a profile, offer art and antiques for sale and keep their clients up-to-date with news.
Portobello Road London
About time too. The real Portobello Road Antique Market is under threat from developers, clothing stores, reproductions and tourist tat. Perhaps The Portobello Market online is the future for dealers still selling antiques.
It will certainly beat getting up at 5.30 on a Saturday morning to be in with a chance of buying a bargin.
At last we may be able to buy something vintage from Oxfam. For years Oxfam shops have been the last place to expect vintage & retro bargains as fewer and fewer of the publicly donated goods appear in their shops and more and more retail goods do.
But, from today, Oxfam is opening a vintage shop online and according to Sarah Farquhar, Oxfam’s head of retail, ” … the vintage site is an opportunity for us to share some of the amazing items we have donated to our shops with an even wider audience and to raise more money for our work around the world.”
I won’t be holding my breath for a bargain, but it will be nice to see Oxfam offering something vintage for sale somewhere.
Take a look at: www.oxfam.org.uk/vintage
We’ve uploaded a page of wallpaper samples extracted from a Walpamur sample book dated 1962.
Crown Yellow Black & White Abstract Wallpaper and Frieze 1962
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I’ve added a few pieces of vintage and retro Bakelite to the site today including this rare table.
Bakelite Table - Mottled Brown
Belgian chemist, Dr Leo Baekeland discovered a hard, brittle plastic substance around 1908 that he named Bakelite. Bakelite did not readily conduct electricity or heat and consequently it was used extensively in the manufacture of electrical products. It could be moulded into extravagant shapes, perfect for the period and probably most famously, for the manufacture of radio casings. It was once even considered as a substitute for metal in the production of the one-cent coin.
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I will be uploading a few pages of wallpaper over the next couple of weeks.
Beanco Catalogue 1939 - Abstract Stripes Design, Suggested Decorative Frieze & Depiction of Setting
From the Vintage Rag Trader collection of vintage & retro wallpaper sample books. These designs are taken from a Beanco sample book dated 1939.
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Vintage Rag Trader was down for more than 24 hours due to my stupidity. I not only deleted the site, I mangled it so badly it looked like it was savaged by a hungry bulldog. But, amazingly, we have been saved by a brilliant tech guy at Uk2.net, our hosting company. Even though I had deleted the database and made it impossible for premium backup to retrieve it, he was able to find a way and here we are again. Thank you Uk2.net.