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…
Valentine's Day is a very special day of the year to share romantic feelings with someone loved. It can also be a sweet moment to share with family and friends. So when that arrow strikes your heart let it be full of passion and caring. Gifts given are usually candy and flowers but maybe this year you long to be inspired, especially if the recipient loves vintage....a whole…
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…
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, …
The beauty of elaborate details, along with fine workmanship, is so evident in the making of beautiful table and bed linens. Not only for one's self, but many gorgeous pieces were included in a daughter's trousseau. A customary practice from the Victorian time into the early part of the 1900's.Making of these items might start at a daughter's early age, so by the time of marriage…
Have you thought of adding antique & vintage linens to your home decorating style? You don't have to be a collector of antiques, to find a pretty little doily that would cozy up to that bed side table, to give just the right look. Or why not dazzle your dinner guests, setting your dining table, with a vintage tablecloth and napkin set. As a hostess, wear one of those pretty vintage aprons to…
