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Depression Era Fabrics
In the early 1900s, small neat fabric designs in dark colors (black,
shaker gray, navy, solider blue, navy and dull red) were popular
for clothing and used in quilts. Solid mid-tone pastels were being
recommended by women’s magazine editors for use in ‘Colonial
Revival’ appliqué quilts.
Post World War I, German chemists had to give up their newest aniline
dye formulas as part of war reparations. Soon afterwards, America
textile manufactures began producing colorful cotton prints in lavender,
yellow, pink, soft blue, peach and green. The women loved these
new colors. The 1924 Sears and Roebuck catalog has mainly the dark
prints on their fabric pages with just of few of the newer pastels.
By 1926, the fabric selection features numerous pages of the lighter
fabrics with a only small section of the black, blue, grays and
reds for some of the older ladies who still wanted these more practical
colors.
Early print designs frequently had busy background patterns behind
the motifs. Textile manufacturers also introduced many novelty prints.
Later designs became slightly larger and brighter in coloration,
some with a printed ‘halo’ surrounding the figure. This
area of white which separated the design from the background color
was less costly for the manufacturers to produce. By the late 40s/
early 50s, a black outline around the design was prevalent and new
colorations were added, aqua, oranges and browns.
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Here is another textile history puzzle for your enjoyment! The words
can be general textile, clothing, printing and dyeing or quilting
terms. This particular puzzle also uses words from previous issues
of “A Thread of Textile History” as well as the general
information flyers (i.e. Quilt Styles) we put into orders. The solution
is available on our website’s homepage under ‘Crossword
Puzzle Answers, “Colors to Dye for”, until October 1,
2010. Have fun!
Happy stitches,
:-)
Margo Krager
ReproductionFabrics.com
http://www.reproductionfabrics.com
staff@reproductionfabrics.com
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