Vintage fabric and vintage goods

Beautiful antique French fabric,

Vintage wax wedding tiara,

Antique ivory pin wheel,

Vintage hexagonal patchwork pincusion

and packets of Antique French fabric dye.

All at 

the RAG RESCUE WEBSITE

tomorrow

September 2nd at 7am BST

Thursdays mix of antique and vintage fabric etc

RAG RESCUE

Another busy day here at Rag Rescue.I spent the morning getting orders ready for posting, such a lot today, thank you to all my wonderful customers. This afternoon I've started packing the antique boxes ready for the fair. Its a good job mum has returned home because I think every room has either boxes, paintings, Victorian scooters, French champagne racks, bobbin winders, large wooden mill spools or cart wheels in. That is before I start packing the Rag Rescue goods on Saturday afternoon.

I did have a lovely surprise this morning though, some wonderful Victorian and 1920's black beadwork arrived via our lovely postie. That will stay at home, I don't want it getting pulled about at the fairs.

I'm building up quite a list now of items people want me to find, so if you haven't already contacted me please do so before Sunday morning.

Busy preparing for more listings.

The fairs were very busy, I've never seen so many people visiting them. I'm not sure what happened to the recession, it certainly seem to be around last week.I did however manage to find time to go out buying and found some wonderful old fabrics which are now drying ready for ironing and being organised into scrapbags, squares and stash bags. I also came across two boxes of haberdashery hidden amongst a pile of furniture. It contained loads of tassels and packets of old sequins amongst other odds and ends. I also found some more old lace, collectors will be pleased to hear. All will be revealed in due course.

The other interesting thing was that I spotted a furniture dealers van from Scotland. I recognised the the name as we had seen the advert for them at the side of the road on our holiday last October. My husband spoke to the owners as we had spotted outside their stall, a wonderful carved wooden bear stool. Unfortunately we didn't buy the bear as he was over a thousand pounds but we did find out something interesting. During the course of the conversation my husband told them that we were looking for old fabrics and to our delight he said he had cases of old fabrics stored away. A trip to Scotland is now on our list of things to do very soon, I can't wait to rescue these fabrics from their storage. Fingers crossed that they are just wonderful and still usable.

More lovely items tomorrow

Click on THIS LINK tomorrow amorning and it will take you straight to the new listings page on the website. There you will be able to see larger photographs of each item. As you can see there is a lovely mix of vintage buckles, beads, buttons embroidery silks, vintage French fabrics and ribbon. A hat trim, lovely bunch of vintage flowers and an unusual Lux beadcraft envelope containing instructions on bead work motifs and it comes complete with the beads.

I hope tomorrow is a better day than today. First the dentist, then the hand brake on the van seized and now the washing machine has broken with the clothes still in it. Oh well hopefully that's the three.

SPECIAL ITEM

Lovely old English ribbon with a design of roses.

ANOTHER FABRIC SAVED

FABRIC THAT IS RECYCLED TWICE.

I bought a lot of French fabric at the Newark fair this time. I usually buy boxes of scraps but my friend from France was not at the fair this time. I therefore had to hunt around and to my amazement I found this wonderful fabric. Wonderful in two senses really. The pattern is beautiful and the fact that someone else or rather something else had liked the fabric also made it extra special in my eyes. They had liked it so much that they decided to take parts of it to their nest.
CLEVER MICE.
I managed to get the fabric at a reduced rate as the lady hadn't realised how badly chewed it was. I suppose she thought that her luck couldn't come along twice in a day in the shape of a crazy lady buying mice eaten fabric.

Not so crazy really. I had tested the fabric and found that the parts in-between the nibbles were strong, although the dark pink flowers had obviously attracted his/her attention rather more than the other flowers. I soaked the fabric for a few hours, dried it and ironed it and set about cutting it into pieces for scrap bags.
WASTE NOT WANT NOT.

LISTING MORE SCRAP BAGS TODAY - LOTS OF ROSY FABRICS.

STOCK UP YOUR STASH

I wanted to do just two things this week outside. Number one was to wash and dry all of the lovely fabrics I bought at the fairs and no. 2 was to get my husband cementing the wall in the garden.
It is so typical of the English weather, whenever you want to work outside it rains and rains and rains.

So the new fabrics are still drying inside and hopefully I will be able to get a few scrap bags cut for you tomorrow.
I've listed some more scrap bags that I had completed before the fairs and some large fabrics that were in my stash.
Hope you enjoy looking at the new items I am listing. I shall be listing every day this week.

KEEP LOOKING HERE
and stock up for your Autumnal and Winter crafting activities.