Category Archives: Southern Textiles
Currently Reading – Gift from the Hills
I really hope you all are not tired of reading about the Crafts Revival of the early 20th century. I know the topic is not exactly mainstream “fashion,” but the movement was important to the time, and was really much … Continue reading
Filed under Currently Reading, North Carolina, Southern Textiles
Acme-McCrary, Over 100 Years in Hosiery
Several weeks ago I found this booklet, which was a 50th anniversary brochure published by the Acme-McCrary company of Asheboro, NC. Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of Acme-McCrary, as I had not either. But this booklet is the … Continue reading
Filed under Made in the USA, North Carolina, Southern Textiles, World War II
Print Engineering – An Example from Vera
What looks to be a huge factory printing mistake is actually the beginnings of a Vera Neumann blouse. Find the two sleeves, the two back pieces and the front and you can see how this worked. Sometime in the 1960s, the Vera Company decided … Continue reading
Filed under Designers, Made in the USA, Southern Textiles, Vintage Clothing
Crossnore Weavers
About a month ago I posted about a book I’d been reading, Miracle in the Hills, the story of Doctor Mary Sloop and her work in Crossnore, NC. Last week I finally had the chance to take a day … Continue reading
Filed under Made in the USA, North Carolina, Road Trip, Southern Textiles
What I (Almost) Didn’t Buy
I don’t talk a lot about my age here because I’ve never thought that it was terribly important. And when I was younger I always hated it when middle aged people made “old people” jokes as if they had … Continue reading
Filed under I Didn't Buy..., Novelty Prints, Southern Textiles
Currently Reading – Miracle in the Hills
I’ve written here before about the Crafts Revival Movement of the early 20th century. For the most part, this revival was instituted by women, much in the spirit as the more famous Jane Addams and her work in urban Chicago. … Continue reading
Filed under Currently Reading, North Carolina, Southern Textiles
Diane Von Furstenberg for Vogue Patterns – 1976
First, let’s talk about prints. There are some prints that you really don’t even need a label in order to identify them: Lilly Pulitzer, Pucci, Liberty. You might even add the 1970s knit prints designed by Diane von Furstenberg to … Continue reading
Filed under Southern Textiles, Too Marvelous for Words, Vintage Sewing
