[h-cost] Victorian lace curtains (Re: What costume-related gifts did everyone get?)

[Christine Robb]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:12:19AM -0800, Lavolta Press wrote:
> In terms of what I'm doing, right now it's making drapes.  Or more like, buy
> curtain rods, return half of them because they're theoretically Arts &
> Crafts style but they're ugly, buy more rods. Buy brass electrical plates,
> return half of them because they are a lovely Art Nouveau style but
> oversized so would overlap the baseboards, buy smaller ones.  Order swatches
> for curtain material, half haven't arrived because the fabric store owners
> are busy this season. Meanwhile, kitchen contractor goes on vacation for two
> weeks. We won't actually be moving to Sacramento till March at this rate.
> 
> On the bright side, I found out that if you want more or less Victorian lace
> drapes (I'm not claiming 100% accuracy), try those Quaker Lace brand
> tablecloths that are all over eBay and Etsy every day, often at low prices.
> You can easily get them in 100% cotton. Just sew on curtain rings. Many of
> the expensive repro Victorian curtains actually look like tablecloths, with
> a large central motif and borders all around. Matching the shade of
> off-white for several windows in a room is a trick but can be done.

I haven't ordered anything from him, but he's well known in social
dance circles so some of you may know him too:
http://www.burrows.com/

He's done work at the MFA in Boston, tv shows, the list goes on.
Beautiful photos on the website and facebook...  I don't know my
Victorian lace curtains, but would be willing to bet these aren't the
tablecloth variety.

Fran, I expect you know about them already, but in case not,
Rejuvenation and Lee Valley both sell hardware that might be of
interest.

Christine
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Re: [h-cost] Victorian lace curtains (Re: What costume-related gifts did everyone get?)

[Lavolta Press]

When we bought our San Francisco house over 30 years ago, we papered my 
sewing room in J. R. Burrows William Morris wallpaper, still in 
wonderful condition and unfaded. I'm really hoping to sell to someone 
who sees the wallpaper as an asset rather than something weird to just 
paint over.  It doesn't conform to the decoration I see in most houses 
for sale, which tends to be beige, off-white, and modern.  As for our 
antique light fixtures, we're moving them all to the new house and 
putting up cheap replacements for sale.


The tablecloths actually look very good, although they are often heavier 
than commercial lace curtains. At $30 or so per tablecloth instead of 
$250 or so per curtain, they're a deal. Being next to sunny windows, 
they'll rot out and need to be replaced every few years. I've been 
dealing with that forever in our San Francisco house.


When we bought our San Francisco house, we got our hardware from a 
Rejuvenation print catalog, but I find their website hard to navigate. 
We've bought a lot of light switch plates and other hardware for our 
Sacramento house from http://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/, our 
cabinet hardware (kitchen, bathroom, and pantry doors) from 
http://www.rockler.com/ (if you search on terms like "stickley" and 
"arts and crafts" there's a lovely selection), and lots of antique door 
hardware and more antique light fixtures from eBay.  We buy antiques 
where we can find them, but it can be hard to get certain things as 
antiques when you want them. And we got some of our switch plates from 
this site: http://jamesmattson.com/collections/switchplates-bungalow-rose


Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com











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I haven't ordered anything from him, but he's well known in social dance 
circles so some of you may know him too: http://www.burrows.com/ He's 
done work at the MFA in Boston, tv shows, the list goes on. Beautiful 
photos on the website and facebook... I don't know my Victorian lace 
curtains, but would be willing to bet these aren't the tablecloth 
variety. Fran, I expect you know about them already, but in case not, 
Rejuvenation and Lee Valley both sell hardware that might be of 
interest. Christine ___ 
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