Frances: The Whole 9 Yards fabric store in Portland had a great selection of Art Nouveau and Arts and Craft type drapery textiles last time I was in there. The good news is no sales tax in Oregon, the bad news, the store is in Oregon. They do shipping.
http://w9yards.com/ (503) 223-2880 Mon - Fri 10-6 Sat 10-5 1820 E Burnside St Portland, OR 97214 Good luck with your house. ----- -----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Lavolta Press Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:57 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is h-costume still going? I'm still here and have been since h-costume started. I am not sewing any garments because I have to make all the drapes for a 5,000-square-foot house my husband and I bought in June and have not moved into yet. (Not to mention a lot of time-consuming stuff like picking out paint colors and Arts & Crafts cabinet knobs.) Not a fixer-upper but lots of work being done, like complete kitchen remodeling, installing hardwood floors in several rooms that did not have them already, and painting. Then the landscaping needed work too. Everything takes longer than it was supposed to. The house is a 1940s Colonial Revival and we are furnishing it combined Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau style. Many features like oak flooring and a fireplace with green tile carry over quite well. The sellers took all the window coverings, which we probably wouldn't have liked anyway. Some of the windows are fairly strange sizes and we ordered historic reproduction custom-made roller shades for most of them. Which BTW turned out not to cost any more than most of the ready-made shades I looked at, and they're actually cotton instead of polyester. The challenge I am facing is getting the fabric for the drapes. It seems I want a fairly flat look, probably 1 1/2 times fullness. Since this is not a bungalow, I figured a general-Victorian-look brocade is OK, and I have a lot of that in my stash, though in many cases not enough for a window. And I had some embroidered linen I bought online that turned out to have motifs too large for clothes. For three rooms that only have one window, what with only 1 1/2 times fullness I managed to squeeze three windows' worth of drapes out of stash fabric. The rest of the fabric is proving to be a pain to find. So if anyone knows where to buy repro Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau drapery fabric in quantities up to 18 yards for a single room, I'd LOVE to know. It seems I can use a textured fabric such as dupioni or linen (preferably stenciled linen) if I have to, but I wanted to furnish some rooms with Art Nouveau brocades. Have to say I think the average "bungalow" decorating book (trendier than just Arts & Crafts) is somewhat misleading on recommending no drapes at all or maybe only sheer drapes if you must have something. The few period pictures mostly show the usual set of lace drapes, outer drapes, sometimes a valance as well. The Victorians and Edwardians didn't want the sun full on their faces at dawn, or the neighbors peering into their windows, any more than we do. Fran Lavolta Press Books of historic clothing patterns www.lavoltapress.com > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume End of h-costume Digest, Vol 14, Issue 54 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
