Antique Textile Dealers

30 Monday Apr 2012

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antique textile dealers, Antique textiles, antique toile, Old Roses

I’d like to thank a few of my favorite textile dealers for helping me get through a long winter and rainy Spring!! I couldn’t have done it without you!!! A few years ago, in Toile de Jouy Rouge here I first discovered “Les Piliers Fleuris”, showed you a few scraps I had found from UK textile dealer Sallie Ead in Rose Diet here…and was able to get both of these pelmets from Sallie a bit later from her Ebay site Lucia’s Wardrobe here.

Sallie also has a Ruby Lane shop called Lucia Collectables here. As is the case with most textile dealers….Sallie is wonderful! Besides selling big, incredible pieces, she always has alot of little affordable bits to assemble into sachets or pillows, to frame or to file into sample books (along the lines of these antique beauties here). While it lasts…you should check out this incredible rare French 18th century toile she has that tells the story of the French Revolution …here

The piece above Sallie’s toile is a lucky Ebay find from a few years ago from a non-textile dealer…probably the point at which I first fell in love with the blue/red combination.

I found this beautiful pillow from another UK textile dealer… Katharine Pole here and here. She backed a perfect piece of this toile with a 19th c French stripe…edging each corner with pompoms. Love Katharine’s finds! I’m always waiting eagerly for her latest offerings…love her assortment that includes clothing as well. Again, a lovely person to deal with!

The subtle backdrop to all this floriferous beauty…Wendy Lewis’s 19th century linen bed sheet. While Wendy’s Textile Trunk here is know for incredible antique pelmets, quilts, curtains…she is my go to place for bolts of linen, and this sheet is as lovely as her photograph of it was below. The blue ticking is a temporary fit…in my dreams someday Wendy will find another set of drapery panels like these blue striped ones here from a few years ago that so many of us fell in love with!

It’s hard to “see” and “feel” these incredible antique textiles online…but her linen always has the most incredible texture. Owning her textiles teaches me what to look for at the Alameda flea market. I envy those of you who can trot over to Brimfield or Chelsea or Battersea and see the textiles from all these dealers in person!

Very early ticking piece that Wendy just listed here…early 19th or possibly 18th. Just love ticking with toile…

My good friend Karin from La Pouyette has posts on linen that are incredible here and here. An antique dealer for over 30 years, at times showing at Battersea, her blog is full of gardening and antique information. She can occasionally be talked out of seriously beautiful linen and other textiles…like the initialed piece above that I’ve shown you several times. Another Sallie Ead quilted toile piece is temporarily cast over a Bella Notte pillow. Which brings me to the last item: for all you Bella Notte linen fans. Their outlet sale is this Friday and Saturday info here

Spring Warehouse Sale Hours

Friday May 4th &

Saturday May 5th

10am – 5pm

61-E Galli Drive, Novato, CA 94949

Outside…and roses…at last….

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26 Thursday Apr 2012

Posted by Trish in Flea Market Style

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Yes…I am still alive. I’ve been in the middle of a big landscaping project for weeks, my computer died on me, and I just haven’t had time or patience to decide what to replace it with yet. All my photo editing software and files are in limbo until I make the decision. So…I’m on the lam a bit…jerry-rigging my husband’s computer to get you some photos I took recently. When an impromptu rainstorm allowed me to escape my garden project… I drove down to Corralitos to pick up my big basket and spent a delightful drizzly afternoon with our Atelier de Campagne friends and their most recent finds.

As a textile junkie, I just had to pick up this vintage Louis XVI firescreen. The screens are used to ornament a fireplace in the off season…though Johan mentioned they’d make a great menu board. I generally like to keep my husband guessing as long as possible about what’s for dinner…so I’ll be going the fabric route. And look at those mirrors! Atelier manages to bring back the most beautiful mirrors from their grand tours of the French flea markets.

Loving this bit of rosy color amidst all the neutral patina.

And the “high/low” mix of damask and wicker and rough plank floorboards…

Large mill baskets with bits of mohair still stuck at the bottom. Atelier is always a great source for wonderful baskets….

This lovely piece was placed over the holy water font…

See the Atelier de Camagne site here for the upcoming events this weekend and next…more wonderful photos of their latest container finds on their blog here

The garden is beginning to explode and the new project is done…so hope to get you more photos soon!

Atelier de Campagne European Container Sale

23 Friday Mar 2012

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Flea Market, French Antiques, French curiosities, garden antiques

Can you believe it…it’s already been a year since last year’s Spring Atelier de Campagne container sale! If you come away with nothing from each sale, you nevertheless KNOW what’s going to be IN. Champagne baskets and metal dolly tubs and odd zinc collanders. I saw them here first. And then they were the “it” item. All at pre-1stdibs prices.

Here’s a view from last Spring’s sale. Always a fun event…the vignettes creating the perfect joi de vivre! The basket belonged to a famous touring vaudeville act and was picked up in London by Johan. I’ve been a bit like Goldilocks with Atelier’s baskets: an earlier one here was too big, the above one was too small…

And this was JUST right. Reserved for me! If you see anything on the incoming list here you can grab it pre-sale by calling or emailing (terms here)

A close up from last year…beautiful soft shades of gray, always plenty of mirrors and crystal…

More beautiful gray washed furniture setting off a group of blue polka dot pitchers….also coming in in green and….a mystery color…!

Vignette

For those that crave authenticity…. #18/249 Pair of Wooden Baluster Lamps

Always wonderful shutters….wooden baluster lamps…wonderful pillows and linens…

#18/192 Set of 12 Bistro Chairs

A full set of 12 bistro chairs….incredible find…
#18/132 Wooden Grape Carriers detail

Wooden grape carriers….

#18/075 2 Terra Cotta Busts on Pedestal

My favorites…terra cotta busts on pedestals. Can imagine them on either side of a set of French doors with a view to the garden beyond??

Container Unloading Sale April 7-8 More info here

Read Trinidad’s great new post about zinc on Atelier de Campagne’s blog here

Earlier posts on Atelier de Campagne:

French Country Hues here

Atelier de Campagne Sale here

Atelier de Campagne part 2 here

PS: I should add..photo 2 and 4 (and title photo) are mine, but all other photos are Atelier de Campagne photos! Especially love the Greek Athena bust and bistro chair photos. Pure poetry!

Ticking

27 Monday Feb 2012

Posted by Trish in Antique Fabric

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Antique beds, Flea Market Style, French ticking, Stripes

Ticking tones down florals and bumps up neutrals. I’ve been trying to work a few stripes into my decor, so dragged out a few collected antique and vintage pieces to sketch out an idea. This vintage mattress ticking has a nicely aged blue and ecru stripe. Can imagine it brought out a bit on the edges and lined with a nubby French linen sheet. I tucked a set of striped blue, pink and gold vintage cotton scraps under the French mattress.
I’ve been wanting to use the two striped patterns together since purchasing them several months ago. The peach striped floral silk is 18th century French and delicate. It could either be the underside of the bed hanging…trimmed with the blue edged linen pelmet…or I might risk a pillow.

I just purchased this floppy 19th century linen from the Textile Trunk to line the ticking. Really…a good photo get’s me every time…(yes that’s Wendy’s home in the background!…love that greige wood wainscoting!!). In the textiles I collect I adore pattern…but in decorating I have to dilute it with copious amounts of textured neutrals!!

All my vintage flea market finds…or flea market knock offs like the Aidan Gray pulpit spire above…are the little bits I use to try to add texture to my very neutral decor. (I picked up the vintage paperbacks from our friends at Atelier de Campagne here). I’m no longer apologizing for keeping my walls neutral. I love light filled rooms…and a tweak of vintage accessories and textiles can add the drama.

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If you’re a purist…there’s an incredible grouping of 18th century French chapel parts at Ambiance Antiques here which I have seen in person and wish I could squeeze into my home and budget! Wonderful!

Just a quick glimpse into what I’m sketching out at home….more on ticking later….

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Atelier de Campagne European Container Sale

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