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Rice - Stix Fabric Samples

4/27/2017

 
As a quilter and quilt collector I am naturally drawn to fabrics. New or old, I love fabrics. One of the best ways to learn about fabrics is to study books on fabrics (and quilts) and study fabrics in fabric sample books. Over the years I have been fortunate to find some great fabric sample books.


Sample book dating to 1939 from Rice - Stix converters. Here they offer their "Topmost Fashions" line of cotton fabrics.
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Sample book from the fall of 1939, the year of the New York Worlds Fair.
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Solid fabrics in just about every hue. The "New York World's Fair Colors" are apparently the orange and blue at center bottom.
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Pretty, softly colored floral prints.
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Bolder or brighter colors here.
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Figures on bolder colored backgrounds.
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More figures on white this time.
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Large sized bold colored prints.

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    Welcome to my blog, Antique Quilt Studies.

    As a collector of antique quilts for over 20 years I have come to love everything about these wonderful textiles.

    Studying antique quilts has turned into an all encompassing venture, ever widening my fields of interest into other quilt related items like antique fabrics, textile history books, and fabric sample books.

    I look forward to sharing some of the quilt history I've picked up along the way as well as some of the items from my collections.

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    Laurette Carroll

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