SOLD : 33 metre roll of 80s document design glazed cotton chintz by Warners and Sons, ‘Culzean,’ c.1981.
Warner & Sons was a British textile manufacturer founded in Spitalfields and originally specialising in silk for the furnishing industry. It wove the coronation robes for both Edward VII and Elizabeth II. In the 80s it expanded into the exclusive production of chintzes for London decorators Colefax & Fowler, Jean Monro, George Spencer and leading American firms including Brunschwig and Fils, Lee Jofa and Cowtan & Tout. Warners archive of fabric samples, paper designs and documents was sold to Braintree District Museum Trust in 2004, returning to its original location of mill buildings in Braintree, Essex. Carrier/ UK postage charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5
SOLD; Gun Dogs, two pairs of fresh, greeny-yellow vintage cotton toile curtains
Vintage toile curtains of unglazed cotton chintz in near-perfect unfaded, unstained condition, 2 pairs for short cottage-type casement windows. The pattern of blowsy roses and floral sprays garlanding picture-vignettes of gun dogs - spaniels - and game birds. Cream cotton linings, ruffle tops, a yellow-green sage colour with citrus yellow and blue-green accents in the pattern. Printed with the legend, ' Bird Dogs, Currier & Ives 1957' Two /one pair are 52 cm wide x 84 cm long. Two/ one pair is 115 cm wide x 84 cm long; one of these has the hem let down and requires re-hemming.
SOLD: 8 yard length of antique buff coloured linen furnishing fabric printed with a naive folk-art design
Vintage ecru antique linen, printed with a house in a flower garden, dog, flower twining tree, chicken and floral motifs in a folk-art cross-stitch needlework sampler effect design in red, blue, greens and golds, probably 1940s or 50s, a perfect 8 yard length, measures 32 inches wide.
SOLD: Archive glazed cotton chintz by Colefax and Fowler, a perfect 6.5 meter length x 135cm, ‘Eugenie,’ c.1980
'Eugenie,' A Colefax and Fowler Design, copyright 1980: a classic full-blown, ' full-look,' glazed cotton chintz from the design studios of Colefax and Fowler. After John Fowler retired in 1971, George Oakes, the talented artist who had worked closely with Fowler on many private commissions, led the textile design studio. His chintzes drew on mid-to-late nineteenth-century documents alongside occasional Regency and 18th-century patterns, and undoubtedly greatly influenced fabric fashions in the 1970s and 1980s. The first collections included the renowned Bowood and Fuchsia chintzes, which retain their popularity and have remained in production ever since. 'Eugenie' is something of a rarity, no longer in production, a strongly patterned floral cornucopia with hydrangea branches , rose sprays and bright, muticoloured garden flowers, highlighted with white and deployed in densely undulating repeats. The ground is a neo-Victorian biscuit-coloured stipple on white cotton. All under a glazed sheen. UK Carrier/ postage charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5
SOLD: Laura Ashley vintage printed cotton, Hounds and Deer, c.1972, 90 x 50 ins.
One of Laura Ashley's new range of medievalising and document furnishing fabric patterns 'adapted from old tapestries and linens' printed in Wales and launched in c.1972, pre-shrunk and colour-fast. This design is shown on the bottom right of a contemporary advertising features carried by Homes and Gardens. This is the end of a production roll, printed in a cinnamon/ ochre/wet sand colour, measuring approx 50 ins wide x 90 ins long. UK postage charged at cost
SOLD: White cotton hanging with four lace panels of a fawn in a forest
In good condition, hanging or window curtain, measures 84 x 84 cm.
