Barkcloth/bark cloth and mid-century interiors. Show me yours and I'll show you mine!

Here you go Linda.
Amazing stuff.
http://www.tvlamps.net/category.html


I like your green shade best.

 

This barkcloth has an interesting story. It's dated 1952 and was manufactured by Riverdale.
Associated American Artists was established in the mid-1930s to bring art to the middle classes. (AAA prints have been featured on "Antiques Roadshow" and can fetch high $$.) From 1952-57, AAA also offered apparel and interior decorating fabrics. The curator of the American Textile History Museum has written an informative paper on the subject (my particular fabric is not mentioned): http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1394&context=tsaconf. I've contacted her to see if she'd like me to donate a piece.

 

Thank you for posting that link, Donna. I'm printing out a copy for my own reference.

 

Too funny. I just pulled this barkcloth vintage chaise lounge or day bed cover from my stock to sell. It is very similar to the first print. I can't make out the name, Mar.... Fabrics.


These are my sun room curtains from the 40s.

 

The author of that AAA article, Karen Herbaugh, is working on a book, I believe.

Here's my favorite barkcloth:

 

And a link to a blog post I wrote on Pioneer Pathways:

http://thevintagetraveler.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/anton-refregier-part-ii/

 

I'd love to make that cityscape print into a dress! I supopose it's too heavy?

 

That city scape is great!
MJ--it's like Christmas everyday at your house.
Opening boxes from 11 years ago! You never know what you may find--sounds like fun!

 

I received such a kind reply from Karen, curator at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA, to my offer of a fabric donation! A portion of her email:

"I could hug you! That paper I wrote on the AAA fabrics was quite a while ago and since then I have documented over 200 fabrics. I also just finished a book chapter on the AAA textile designs as part of a larger book on the whole organization. Although, I have documented “Geraniums” from ads I have never found an actual piece of the fabric."

She also states that there will be an exhibition of the AAA fabrics at the museum in the fall of 2016. Luckily, I have a friend who lives in the Boston area so I hope to plan a trip to Massachusetts at that time and see the exhibition.

 

I bought the same jvc tv-radio at a yard sale for $20 too!!...I sold it.

 

Does yours have the hanging chain?

 

Mine had the chain.
I kept it for awhile but when I moved I parted with a lot of items I wish that I kept.
I was in a minimalist period--I didn't want any clutter.

 

I would have thought that would be the ulimate minimalist tv - floating in the corner!