French vintage fabric and lace at the Rag Rescue website

Four more wonderful French vintage fabrics have been added to the Rag Rescue website this morning.

French antique fabric with a 1920s sunbathing scene

What a find this was. A great printed scene on a beach of three young ladies sunbathing on the beach.

I had a large piece of this fabric but there was quite a lot of staining in between the motifs so I had to cut them out to save the wonderful designs. This design would look superb if it was appliqued onto a cushion/pillow or bag. I think it is so unique that it would look superb framed.

This much smaller design was between the other larger designs, which have been sold.

French vintage linen fabric - Art Nouveau design - Jan18

 A superb Art Nouveau design on this vintage vintage or rather antique fabric. The fabric is in a strong state.

Lovely floral design.

19th century French fabric - F6

 There is a lovely design on this French fabric from the 19th century.

French vintage fabric - silk and cotton mix- Jan26

This vintage fabric has a wonderful feel to it as it is a silk and cotton mix, more silk than cotton, I think.

A lovely floral design of pink flowers and green/blue leaves.

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Here is a reminder of all the items that were placed on the website this past week.

 

Antique French toile pieces at Rag Rescue.

Wonderful pieces of antique French toile fabric for you today.

Great motif on this French toile fabric from 1805. It is part of 'Le Loup et L'agneau ( The wolf and the Lamb' design by Jean Baptiste Huet. The design was taken from Oudry's illustrations of fables.

This is a great addition to your collection or to be framed or used in one of your projects.

14cms/5.5" - 15cms/5.9" x 14cms/5.5"

 

 I just love the design on this French toile fabric. Can you see the little toy horse on the right hand side?

A lovely vignette of a dancing couple.

Man donkey and goods being transported along the river.

Vintage fabric scrapbags

Back to showing you some more French vintage fabric today. Here are the four vintage fabric scrapbags that have been placed on the website today.

Edwardian lace blouse, cherub fillet lace boudoir cushion cover and two vintage shoe trees.

Something a little different to what I normally sell.
An Antique French Edwardian handmade lace blouse, a lovely cherubs filet lace and white cotton boudoir cushion cover and two shoe trees ready for you to decorate.

Here is an example of what you can do with the shoe trees that I am selling today.

Take one of the pairs of shoe trees like this -

Paint the ends to a colour of your choice.

Make a tube of pretty vintage fabric cotton or silk and gather it on both side.

Place the gathered fabric over one of the shoe trees and pull up the gathering to fit the metalic centre piece.

You can add any embellishments you like.

Here is an example of an original decorated shoe tree being sold on Ruby Lane by Nancy Fancy Antiques. It costs $65 but the ones I am selling are only £5.50 and yours will be just as unique when covered as the Antique ones.

 

Vintage fabric squares for patchwork and sewing projects.

Today I am adding more vintage fabric squares to the Rag Rescue website. These are ideal for patchwork and small sewing projects.

Antique and vintage white work embroidered lengths and cuffs

A lovely piece of fine cotton lawn that has been embroidered and has holes to thread ribbon through.

63cms long x 6.5cms wide (24.8" x 2.6")
The embroidery is 2.5cms wide. (0.98")
£4.50

 A lovely pair of ladies cuffs that have been cut off some sleeves long ago. The embroidery is very neat.

I can see these cuffs used as they are or embroidered around in coloured threads and added to a modern dress or blouse.

11.5cms (4.5") deep.

At the top on the cut edge, the embroidery is 3.5cms (1.4") deep and at the bottom the closest to where the hand is the embroidery is 5cms (2") deep

£6.50

 A lovely piece of insertion embroidered whitework.

The piece is 1.11m (43.7") long and 12.5cms (4.9") deep.
The embroidery is 6cms (2.4") deep.

£5.50

More beautiful vintage French fabric at Rag Rescue today

Three more weeks of listing more items on www.ragrescue.co.uk. 

Today I have listed four more French vintage fabrics with superb designs.

Vintage French fabric with a variety of flowers - Jan24

Click HERE to see the fabric on the website.

 

Vintage French shabby chic floral fabric - Jan 35

Click HERE to see the fabric on the website .

 

Vintage French embroidered voile floral fabric - Jan31

 Click HERE to see the fabric on the website.

 

Vintage French cotton.fabric - Jan32

 Click HERE to see the fabric on the website

 

 

 

Using vintage haberdashery in your jewellry making projects.

I found this wonderful necklace this morning whilst browsing Pinterest. It has given me so many ideas. There are lots of similar haberdashery and lace items on my website I think I might use some of them to make a similar necklace for myself. Better be quick before I use them all. www.ragrescue.co.uk

Once Upon a Time Necklace by AllThingsPretty, via Flickr

The Metro advertisment brings lots of new customers to Rag Rescue

I thought I might be able to have a catch up week this week, as I didn't have anything new listed on the website. WRONG AGAIN. Since I had free advertising in the 'Metro' newspaper I have been inundated with new customers placing orders. Not that I'm complaining at all. Just love you all for liking what I do for a living.

I've been buying lots of new vintage fabrics and there is more to arrive next week I think, so that will keep me busy. I really must have a good sort out of my stock room as it is getting rather unworkable at the moment, with fabrics that need washing, measuring and photographing. I just wish we could have a couple of bright days to do some shots then the fabrics could be put away in my system.

Here are some lovely Easter bunnies for you to make with small pieces of fabric. You can use them to hang on some twigs for Easter or sell them. As you know there are lots of wonderful small pieces of fabric on Rag Rescue website which would be ideal for making these rabbits.

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Lots of French vintage fabric at thhe Rag Rescue website today

Not only have I added four more French vintage fabrics today, I've also topped up three more. They were sold so very quickly and customers did ask about more.

Todays listings

Block printed vintage French fabric, maroon background with cream flowers.

39cms x 24cms 4 pieces available uncut at £6.00 each.

web page HERE

 

 Beautiful 19th century French fabric with a bird in the design - jan 23

This is a lovely design of branches of trees with flowers and a bird, in pinks, lilacs, brown and green on a light grey background. The design is similar to a chinoiserie design.

38cms x 42cm. 2 pieces available uncut at £8.00 each

Web page HERE

 A lovely clean looking French fabric from the 1930's.

36cms x 30cms - £6.50

Web page HERE

 A lovely clean looking French linen fabric with a deisn of bunches of flowers including roses and forget-me-nots.

40cms x 34cms - £8.00

Web page HERE

The following fabrics were sold but I have added some more pieces of each.

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Antique French borders,braids and strip rolls at Rag Rescue

There are some lovely borders and strip rolls on the website this morning. 

Click on any of the photo's below and you will be taken to the page on the website.

Early 19th century French Toile de Jouy cotton border - Jan 4

 This beautiful length of early 19th century French Toile de Jouy cotton border is block printed and dates from around 1810.

Click HERE to be taken to the web page

 

 French Victorian fabric strip roll - Jan 1
This wonderful Victorian fabric was found underneath an early 19th century French fabric border.

Click HERE to be taken to the web page

French vintage fabric strip roll - Jan 3
The strip roll is 40cms long x 9cms wide
Uncut until required

Click HERE to be taken to the web page

 
Vintage French braid with embroidered kettles.
Unused braid, ideal for shelf edging or edging towels or tea towels.
1.38m long x 6.5cms wide.

Click HERE to be taken to the web page.

Vintage fabric squares for patchwork and small projects

I'm hoping to get some washing of vintage fabric completed this morning as they are piling up.
Today I've put some more lovely vintage fabric squares on the website. These are great, not only for patchwork but for any small project.