Product Description

Vintage fabrics are the latest trend and who can resist them? Antique quilts, funky 1950s tablecloths, fine old linens, intriguing scraps of velvet and lace...there's more available than you know what to do with. Now Vintage Fabric Style presents chic ideas and projects that incorporate these fabrics into beautiful home accessories to help create your personal style. Blending their specialties, textiles expert Lucinda Ganderton and stylist Rose Hammick gives step-by-step instructions for inspiring projects, such as transforming an old piece of patchwork into county-style curtains, making a luxurious comforter cover from old damask napkins, and turning old family cast-offs into a lovely baby's quilt. Photographer Catherine Gratwicke uses her background in textile design to focus on each project both close-up and in its environment. Vintage Fabric Style is so inspirational, you'll run out of hand-me-downs before you run out of ideas.

Hidden in grandmothers' sewing boxes, piled high in flea-market stall or hiding out in the back of your linen closet...vintage fabrics in every style, color and condition are just waiting to be transformed into beautiful home accessories. In Vintage Fabric Style, textiles and soft-furnishings expert Lucinda Ganderton and stylist Rose Hammick suggest a multitude of creative ways to use these treasures - from showing how to transform an old piece of patchwork into country-style curtains to making a sturdy apron from an old pair of jeans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140372 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Review
Anyone liking pretty things will LOVE this book, full of colourful vintage fabrics used in a variety of different ways around the home and garden. Picked up at antique fairs, charity shops or plucked from family linen cupboards, these reams of prettiness can be used practically as gifts or just as pure ornament - draped over sofas and chairs, hung at windows, made up into cushions or bags, adding a vintage touch to your home. Whether you like floral chintzes, plain linens, intricate lace or 70s geometrics, the addition of these fabrics will add individuality to a home, stamping it with a personal touch gleaned from someone else's heirlooms. Lucinda Ganderton and Rose Hammick, accompanied by the fabulous photographs of Catherine Gratwicke, demonstrate the versatility these fabrics can offer. Simple projects are clearly explained and the photographs provide an endless source of inspiration. If you weren't overly interested in fabrics before, you will be by the time you've read this. - Lucy Watson

About the Author
Lucinda Ganderton is the author of The Complete Guide to Needlecraft, Applique, and the bestselling Stitch Dictionary. She has contributed to many magazines and books, including Home Furnishing with Fabric and Window Treatments (both Ryland Peters and Small), and played a leading role in Change That, a British TV series on crafts and interiors. She is a graduate of Goldsmith College, London, where she studied Fine Art Textiles.

Rose Hammick is a photography stylist whose work can be seen in interiors magazines such as Country Homes and Interiors and Homes and Gardens. She has contributed to several books, including The Scented Home and, for Ryland Peters and Small, A Handful of Herbs and Planted Junk.

Catherine Gratwicke trained as a textile designer, using photography as inspiration for her woven designs. She worked for a textile design consultancy as a photographer and designer before turning to a full-time career in photography. Her striking style, with its richly colored and painterly effect, has made her much in demand with magazines such as Marie Claire, Homes and Gardens, Elle Decoration, and Red. For Ryland Peters and Small, Catherine took the photographs for On Display and Global Style.

Customer Reviews

Not enough original projects, but very good
I liked this book very much - the pictures are well-done and the layout is beautiful. Very high design standards. I only wish there were more creative or new projects - things I have not already seen elsewhere. I have TONS of vintage fabrics, and there are just so many pillows and sack bags I can make (or need for that matter). There's room for another book with more projects, but this is a wonderful, attractive start

love of vintage
This book is somewhat interesting if you like looking at pictures, but don't expect too much inspiration if you are a seasoned sewer. And, if you take any decorating magazines you will have seen much better pictures than what is in this book. Definitely not a book you will want to keep for reference, because it is not detailed enough. A lot of outdoor ideas if you like to use fabrics in that way. Also ideas like: covers for hot water bottles, coffee pots, books, and clothes hangers. Make bags to hold laundry and toys. The rest of the book shows kitchens and bedrooms using towels and spreads with vintage, or vintage "look" fabrics.

Rethink Your Use of Fabrics
I needed the ideas in this book to use the vintage lace that I'd collected and the stacks of old quilts hidden away in the closet. These were things that attracted me at flea markets and yard sales, but then I had trouble working them into my decor.
The idea of hanging antique clothing on the wall like a piece of art really appeals.
This is a great book for any fabric-aholic out there.