Category Archives: antique/vintage textiles

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C-2 batiste collar $18

Antique textiles have always fascinated me.  The homeliest, most primitive hand embroidered dish towel, f primitive, utility quilts as well as museum quality bed covering, and elaborately smocked and embroidered christening gowns all call  me, to examine, to finger, to speculate as to their origins.

For sale from my collection are two vintage collars featuring exquisite Irish crochet.

Browse “A STORE” categories for items that interest you.  Payment can be made with personal check, postal money order or Paypal.  Send an e-mail to NCcabin@aol.com with your order, your shipping address and your method of payment.  I will respond with a total, including shipping and  sales tax for Florida addresses.  If you choose Paypal, I will send you an invoice.

I’m sorry that this is more tedious than the one click purchase option on other upscale sites. This is more like a yard sale––bargain prices, changing inventory, and limited quantities.   You might be surprised at some of the unique items I have in my stash/hoard/collection!

C-1 Irish crochet ladies collar $20

Quantities are limited.~~~~~~~~~~~

This Irish crochet collar is simply breathtaking.  The intricacy and detail of the pattern required a needleworker with a tremendous amount of skill and time.  The design is interesting in that the inner semi-circle has pointed corner, like a shirt collar.  It must have been intended to pin at the neck with a brooch while the longer piece went opened up in the traditional manner.  On a black dress or sweater if would be dramatically beautiful. Continue reading

Dirty Laundry

I’ve mentioned my good friend Sue Lord and all of her talents before (www.suelord.com).    Her ever -flowing creative ideas and strong influence on my sewing projects require that I give her credit and thanks yet again.

Sue designed the dirty laundry bag project. It was featured in one of the machine embroidery magazines and is included in her embroidery collection Gifts for Women.  This collection has something for everyone and is just fabulous.

Sue, ever the Southern gentlewoman, stitched her dirty laundry bag in feminine pastels. But the text is just suggestive enough to make me think of black lingerie.

The bag is made from ivory polished cotton with black doubleface satin ribbon running through the casing.  I almost always prefer ivory over white.  On this project, it softens the harshness of the black stitching.  Continue reading