faded fabric

Sometimes a really, really damaged quilt is still incredibly beautiful. This is one of those times.

The quilt was sent to me for assessment and my thoughts about what to do with it. It has much fabric damage, both faded colors and lots of tattered, dangling, and missing fabric.

I think the tan fabric was likely dyed with an early synthetic dye. Fading of colors to this kind of tan, often called dun, was common with the experimental new dyes in the later part of the 1800s, as the fabric industry tried to find new dyes that were stronger colored ...

added by Ann 2 months ago. under antique fabric , antique quilt , applique , faded fabric , hearts , prince's feather , quilting , synthetic dyes , textile conservation

Finding just the right fabrics to restore a vintage or antique quilt can be a challenge. The chances of The Exact Match are slim. It's almost always about finding fabrics that blend in as unobtrusively as possible. This is true whether using vintage or modern reproductions.

Sometimes fabrics that blend perfectly into the existing set of fabrics seem to fall into my lap, but sometimes a lengthy search ends up with settling for the better of several options.

My restoration of this Lone Star quilt (1930s) serves as an example of the fabric search stage of quilt restoration. I ...

added by Ann 3 years, 9 months ago. under antique fabric , buckeye beauty , capital t , faded fabric , grandmother's flower garden , quilt repair , rose wreath , sampler quilt , vintage fabrics

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