Friday finds: fabric

Chiang Mai Dragon

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I guess I am a little slow on the uptake. It never dawned on me that Etsy would be a good source for vintage and designer fabric. It is in the category "Supplies" which seemed like a much more boring category, so I never gave it any thought or explored until yesterday.

Vintage fabric fat quarters

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The vintage fabric that I found really took me back to my childhood, reminding me of the smell freshly laundered sheets, open windows, and the sound of locusts in the summer. Pretty heady.

I just don't really have a project idea so I have not bought any.

Lee Jofa Ikat

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 Much of the fabric comes in small amounts that lends itself to pillow making.

Schumacher silk damask

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High end fabric abounds as does the grooviest of groovy vintage fabric.

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Lilly Pulitzer

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I had the idea to recover the much hated Indian pouf in a more pleasing fabric and I think Etsy might be the best source for something unusual.

With that idea, I went in search of more Ikat fabric and found a trove of real, woven not printed authentic Ikats.
The ones I am showing came from this shop.

 There are other sellers too. I found one with a pure silk multicolor chevron or flamestitch that was gorgeous but I can't seem to find it now.

Etsy seller Samarkand11 has many of these woven silk and cotton pieces. They are only 16-18 inches wide so they will not work for my pouf but I was thinking of a tablerunner--perhaps the easiest project there is.