Spring has sprung and with it a season of green color. March 17th is also St. Patrick's Day, a day of celebration, a day to wear green!
So, The Gatherings thought it might be fun to put together a collection of antique and vintage items in the green color palette. So here is what I found....green in many categories. Why not sewing notions for your creativ…
Happy New Year and let us welcome 2024. May it be a good and inspirational year for each and everyone of you! A few changes.........The
Gatherings Antique Vintage is starting the year with an update and
brushing up of the web site. I am sure you notice some slight changes
as you visit already. For one thing more pictures have been added to
the front page plus the blog is also featu…
Do you remember the Mother Goose ~ nursery rhyme story of three little kittens who lost their mittens and didn't know where to find them? Well, this post isn't about kittens loosing their mittens, but about dolly loosing her mitten. Oh dear, she didn't know where to find the one. She looked high and low and nary did it appear. So this one little mitten has languished tucked away…
The skill of entrepreneur of over 100 years ago, were no less a challenge, than from a person today, starting a home-based business. A small business require many of same qualities and attributes, as defined to be successful, in the year 1904, as in the modern world of today. The book Dainty Work For Pleasure and Profit, dated 1904, published by Thompon & Thomas, Chicago, …
Through the years of the Victorian, Edwardian into the 1920's, Art Deco period,gorgeous laces, trims, add ons ~ just pretties, were produced, Both by hand and machine for the embellishment of clothing, millinery and even household items. The beautiful hand made textile pieces, as well as many machine made, can be now, one of a kind decorative ornamentation. Inspired in a new way,…
Now tell me, how cute is this! I'm dating this wonderful bolt of cotton fabric to about the 1960's, however, it actually may be somewhat earlier.As you can see, it is a stylized print of a lion or cat printed in red outline ~ white face with red features on black fabric. Two sizes of the lions are on the fabric in an all over pattern. Animals face both ways on the length of the fabric. It is a cot…
