Collecting Old Fabrics for Quilts and Mixed Media Art
In addition to, or instead of old quilts, some quilters collect antique or vintage fabrics. These can be very interesting to accumulate, whether you use them to make quilts, repair old quilts, or incorporate into fiber art. I’ve had two readers write me about their fasconation in collecting old fabrics. This got me thinking about the few I’ve accumulated.
I found my vintage fabrics stored among old quilt blocks in my childhood home, fabric scraps from sewing projects of my childhood (I may not consider myself vintage but perhaps my grandchildren and their friends do!), and some fabrics my daughter and I have discovered at thrift shops.
Also, we’ve found old feed sacks at yard sales. These I remember from childhood. My aunt and grandmother used them in their sewing and quilting. In the 1930s and 1940, some cattle and poultry feed distributors put the feed into cloth bags with designs printed on them. The farm ladies used these for their sewing.
It’s interesting, as well, to learn the origins and stories of old fabrics. Also, many quilt fabric stores now carry reproductions of these antique fabrics.
The book, Cotton Candy Quilts: Using Feedsacks, Vintage & Reproduction Fabrics, gives more information about this topic.
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