Printed Cotton Stripes 1914

by GGsSam on May 5, 2010

More Vintage Cotton From 1914

Printed Vintage Textiles Stripes 1914

Printed Cotton 1914

From a collection of vintage printed cotton fabric dated 1900 – 1920.

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Vintage Fabric Printed Cotton

by GGsSam on May 1, 2010

Florals 1914

Vintage Fabric Printed Cotton 1914 Floral

Printed Cotton Dated May 1914

Vintage Fabric – Printed Cotton 1914 -

From a scrapbook of vintage fabric and printed cotton textiles collected between 1900 and 1920.

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Vintage Cotton Fabric

by GGsSam on April 24, 2010

Vintage Fabric 1900 – 1920

From our collection of vintage 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 Fabric - Printed Cotton "Puppets" 1914

Vintage Printed Cotton Conversational "Puppets" 1914

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Virtual Portobello Market

by GGsSam on April 13, 2010

21st century Portobello Road.

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

Portobello Road London

ThePortobelloMarket.co.uk

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.

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Vintage At Oxfam Online

by GGsSam on April 9, 2010

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

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Vintage Wallpaper Samples 1962

by GGsSam on April 8, 2010

We’ve uploaded a page of wallpaper samples extracted from a Walpamur sample book dated 1962.

Vintage Wallpaper Abstract Yellow, Black & White 1962

Crown Yellow Black & White Abstract Wallpaper and Frieze 1962

Follow this link or the picture to see the full range >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Vintage Bakelite

by GGsSam on April 6, 2010

I’ve added a few pieces of vintage Bakelite to the site today including this rare Bakelite table.

Rare Vintage Bakelite Table

Bakelite Table - Mottled Brown

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Vintage Rag Trader SEO Success

by GGsSam on April 4, 2010

Vintage Rag Trader is a website built on the WordPress platform using the The Thesis Theme for WordPress. I’m very grateful to the developers of both wonderful pieces of software for the simplicity of usage they offer and deliver. WordPress is very simple to upload and to use and the endless variety of widgets and plugins make it into an extremely powerful tool for virtually any purpose. The Thesis Theme for WordPress has given me design options I may have been able to find in other, free themes, but I am very glad I bought it. Thesis has very powerful SEO properties built in and I have moved Vintage Rag Trader from nowhere in the Alexa world rankings – which means around two hundred millionth (200,000,000th) in the world to around one millionth (1,000,000th) in just two months.

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Vintage And Retro – Wallpaper Samples

by GGsSam on April 2, 2010

I will be uploading a few pages of wallpaper over the next couple of weeks.

Vintage Wallpaper Pink Abstract, Frieze & Depiction of Setting

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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Missing – But Not Dead

by GGsSam on April 2, 2010

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.

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