Vintage & Retro - Vintage Rag Trader
I will be uploading a few pages of wallpaper over the next couple of weeks.
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.
Follow this link to see more vintage & retro wallpaper samples.
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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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If you have already read my article, “Vintage Lace Fabric” you will know that vintage lace is probably my favourite vintage textile.? So seeing a piece of vintage lace become an inspiration to a successful fabric designer was an exciting revelation – most ‘def.
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Lace - Brown Floral
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I was excited to read that a young man in Glasgow had discovered a warehouse stuffed with vintage & retro clothing, purchased in the 70′s and never sold, including a large stock of vintage Levis, Wranglers and Lee jeans.
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If you are buying and collecting, or buying and selling vintage & retro an invaluable source of reference is the Daily Mail Ideal Home series of annuals, produced from the late 1940s until the end of the 1950s. What was the best of contemporary design then is the most sought-after for the retro vintage look now. The Ideal Home annuals are very collectable, but still available from Amazon at quite modest prices.
Daily Mail - Ideal Home Book 1956
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Fabric stores are not normally known as hotspots of violent crime, even in Paris. Unless it’s a fabric store in the fiction of Lalie Walker, who has set her fictional thriller, Aux Malheurs des Dames in a fabric store in Paris. Unfortunately for Ms Walker, the fabric store she depicts is recognisably the most famous fabric destination in Paris and one of the most famous fabric stores in the world, the Marche Saint Pierre, Montmartre. Unfortunately because, the fabric dealers are not amused by her tale of a crazed killer, voodoo and mayhem among the fabric and textiles and they are taking action. They are demanding €2 million (£1.8m) in damages, claiming defermation.
The novelist is said to be “flabbergasted” and claims she ” … wrote the novel from an affectionate point of view.”
The “Kingdom of Fabric” owners, Village d’Orsel, claim that the thriller tarnishes its image. Robert Gabbay, director of Marche Saint Pierre, said that the business is a registered trademark. “No one can have anything to do with or talk about the Marche Saint Pierre without the permission of the owner and directors,” he claimed.
Ms Walker’s publisher, Francois Besse of Parigramme said: ” … the claims were unfair, abusive and crazy”. Emmanuel Pierrat, Parigramme’s lawyer added ” … the Louvre has not sued Dan Brown over his portrayal of a crazed killer committing murder in the museum in his book, The Da Vinci Code”.
Walker said she was shocked. ” … It means that every time you want to write a fiction you have to ask permission of the owners of the place,” she said. Adding: ” … it represents a big threat to our liberty.”
Life can be so much stranger than fiction.
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Quilts 1700-2010 opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London on the 20th March and I cant wait for this chance to see the V&A’s unseen quilt collection. Earliest examples include a sumptuous silk and velvet bedcover, with an oral narrative that links it to King Charles II’s visit to an Exeter manor house in the late 17th century. Recent examples will include works by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin and commissions for the exhibition by a number of contemporary artists including Sue Stockwell and Caren Garfen.
If you want to go, book soon. It’s been one of the museum’s most heavily prebooked exhibition ever. Quilters are flocking to London from every part of the globe. Groups are flying in from Oz, North America and South Africa.
Go to the V&A website to see details and book.
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iPhone has a very cool new app for its camera. Hipstamatic gives your camera facilities allowing you to add an antique look to snaps. A range of down-loadable digital lenses and flashes make black & white shots look grainy and vintage or give images a sepia tone, even a distressed appearance. Just a swipe of the finger changes lenses, flash or even film.
Instantly upload images to Facebook and Flickr with file-sharing and send, via email, directly from the app.
iPhone Applications now available on iTunes.com! Shop Now!
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Vintage photography owes a great deal to the work of Pascal Sebah (1823-1886). In 1873 Sebah opened a photographic studio in Cairo, Egypt. Here he produced beautiful studio photographs and some of the most well known photographic images of Egypt’s ancient ruins, landscape and people.
Follow this link to read the full Pascal Sebah article.
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There are very few albums of vintage photography that don’t include the work of the Zangaki brothers. The one thing we do know for sure, is that the Zangaki brothers, working between the 1860s and the 1880s created some of the best know and collectable vintage photographic images of the 19th century.
Vintage Photography - Egypt - Signed Zangaki
Click here or on the photograph above to see photographs by the Zangaki brothers offered for sale.
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