Posts Tagged 'textile'

Vintage Waverly Fabric Book & the Drapes of My Childhood

Published on April 27, 2010

We bought this vintage Waverly fabric swatch book at auction recently.  It was a true impulse buy.  I had not even seen it on preview.  But when the floor person was holding it up for bid, and flipping through some of the pages, I caught a glimpse of my childhood.

It’s funny, but if you asked me what the drapes in the living room looked like from when I was 5 until I was about 17, I could not have told you.  But when I saw the fabric it was a *zing* moment – I knew exactly what it was. …