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Vintage Textiles Inspired By Flowers For Decorating Your Home

Vintage Textiles Inspired By Flowers For Decorating Your Home

For a small summer gathering, here's a fun tablecloth blooming with flowers galore.  A showy cloth of daisies set on a green background.  It is a mid century 1950's vintage linen with little or no usage.  Doesn't it spell inspiration?  https://store.the-gatherings-antique-vintage.net/m...Love white on white embroidery with flowers?  This Victorian linen bedspread is a so i…
SOME BLOG POST ARE WORTH REPEATING  ~ Hardanger Needlework From An Era Long Ago

SOME BLOG POST ARE WORTH REPEATING ~ Hardanger Needlework From An Era Long Ago

Such as this Hardanger needle art ......Here is one FABULOUS 1920's bedspread! It incorporates lovely sprays of jewel tone flowers, tied with sun gold ribbon bows, embroidered on 22-count cloth fabric. Not only is the embroidery work absolutely stunning it also shares the limelight with insets and a complete border of Hardanger embroidery. Still, the show does not stop here, taking to the center s…

The Art Of Beautiful Needlework ~ A Spanish Drawn Needle Lace Tablecloth

This gorgeous vintage tablecloth was uncovered at an estate sale.  Still wrapped and folded with care, the cloth was a beauty to behold when discovered.  It is a handmade Spanish drawn needlelace tablecloth, or possibly a bedspread, measuring 65" wide x 102" long.  A very impressive size. The linen cloth is made of several different motifs, all put together into an extraordinar…

From The Sold Gallery ~ A Vintage Fabulous Hardanger Bedspread

Here is one FABULOUS 1920's bedspread! It incorporates lovely sprays of jewel tone flowers tied with sun gold ribbon bows embroidered on 22-count cloth fabric. Not only is the embroidery work absolutely stunning it also shares the limelight with insets and a complete border of Hardanger embroidery. Still, the show does not stop here.   Taking to the center stage, is a large round darn…