{"id":60,"date":"2004-04-10T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/vintage-fabrics\/"},"modified":"2004-04-10T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T17:38:07","slug":"vintage-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/vintage-fabrics\/","title":{"rendered":"vintage fabrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSCN4409.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/DSCN4409.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love working with the old fabrics in my collection.  They each have a bit of history that I think about as I use them.<br \/>\nThe white windowpane comes from a badly damaged dress, found in the basement of the house in Woodstock- I aquired it during the clean out.  It was probably from around 1900- the corset age. It has some stains and damage, but I am working around and ignoring them.<br \/>\nThe stiff white fabric came from my Mom&#8217;s stash.  It was a brown sort of color on the top layer of the roll.  I put it through the washing machine and it is fine- it is a cotton &#8220;organza&#8221; (? I think).  It is stiff without starch- good for a petticoat.  The polkadots came from a bag of fabrics that my neighbor gave me when they did a clean out.  Judging from other things in the bag it was probably from the 60&#8217;s or early 70&#8217;s.<br \/>\nI am working on a dress for the gourd head girl&#8230; inspired by memories of a dress I had as a child.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSCN4417.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/DSCN4417.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am 4 in this picture- it&#8217;s my birthday and I am holding a gift from my brother Paul- it is a helicopter that he made and I am very pleased with it.  What doesn&#8217;t show in the picture is the large cloth red rose at the waist of the dress, the dotted swiss fabric- red dots on a white background, and the memory of the textures of the dress.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSCN4414.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/DSCN4414.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here she is, trying on the dress in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love working with the old fabrics in my collection. They each have a bit of history that I think about as I use them. The white windowpane comes from a badly damaged dress, found in the basement of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/vintage-fabrics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}