19th Century Patchwork/Reference Scraps

I recently bought a lovely batch of tiny French fabric swatches and scraps which inspired me to sort out a selection of small pieces of mostly 19th and some 18th century French printed cottons. All these pieces are small, some very worn but all are interesting pieces.

I have listed the first batch on my website, all range in price from £5.00 to £20.00, lovely little gems that are fantastic, unique reference pieces for study or perfect for cutting into tiny patchwork pieces for a special project.

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A Victorian Gothic window filled with Flowers

This is rather a lovely 19th century Victorian woolwork panel, the design mimicking a gothic mullioned window filled with florals.

It has been worked in wool on canvas somewhere towards the end of the 19th century, an example of Berlin woolwork, I think, where women could purchase a painted paper pattern to follow or later, pre-printed canvas to embroider. The reverse shows the much brighter sometimes slightly garish colours fashionable during this period as new dyes were invented and sometimes overused due to their newness.
The colours on the front are now more pleasing as they

have become more muted over time.

I like this panel a lot, it would have been framed and hung somewhere about the house, perhaps in a room without large windows to evoke the world outside, but perhaps it also had a religious or devotional undertone as the window imagery evokes Church stained glass windows and the flowers such as the lilies shown here were often used as symbols in religious iconography.


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New Antique & Vintage French Florals & Toiles

Imagine my excitement when a text from a dealer told me that they had just taken charge of a large batch of antique & vintage French fabrics and would I like to come and see them? Needless to say I didn't need too much encouragement, and ended up buying up most of what they had.

Here are some of them, a wonderful array of colour and pattern. Some are for sale through the website, others in my ebay shop, but it will take me a while to list them all!

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