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Undercurtains (Shears) at Hyde Hall

These shears have just been installed at Hyde Hall in Cooperstown, NY.

Wool Herringbone in Silver and Brown for Gum Tree Farms

Our client Franny Kansteiner of Gum Tree Farm has given us permission to show her jacket on our web site as an example of a from-farm-to-finished-project. Do check out their gorgeous website for a look at their luxury wool apparel and home products!

Call for Papers and Presentations for the 2018 Textile History Forum

July 27, 28 and 29, 2018, at the Marshfield School of Weaving, Marshfield VT

The Textile History Forum is an open forum for anyone doing research on any aspect of the study of textiles from prehistory to present day. For 2018, we are meeting at the Marshfield School of Weaving and will be especially interested in papers and presentations that relate to textile tools, textile process and textile availability. The Marshfield School has acquired many spinning wheels, looms and small tools from the dissolution of the American Museum of Textile History. Demonstration and research related to these tools will be part of the Forum, as well.

The Textile History Forum, which began in 1990’s is an informal but intense weekend of papers, demonstrations and works-in-progress open to any one interested in and enthusiastic about textiles, textile tools and material culture.

Written papers are published in our Proceedings at the time of the Forum, and are given to all participants as part of the Forum’s philosophy that discussion and active participation with others is the best way to explore our interests and further our research. Authors retain copyright of their papers and are free to publish elsewhere. Works-in-Progress and non-paper presentations are also included in the Proceedings.

Presenters from all areas of textile interests are encouraged to share their research; no formal academic credentials are necessary. We encourage anyone to submit a short one page abstract for review by January 15, 2018. Selected papers and details of presentations are due May 15, 2018.

In the past, the Forum has included papers about prehistoric footwear, contemporary fashion designers, historic dye analysis, ingrain carpet factories, coverlet weavers of Ohio, rose blankets, glove making, knitting traditions, weaving in Ecuador on traditional card looms, quilts, reed making, corsets and undergarments, white work, textile tools, labor in early mills, textile production in Lowell and much more.

S. Rabbit Goody began the Textile History Forum in response to the Dublin Seminar on New England Culture in the late 1990’s. It has met every few years since and published papers in the Proceedings, which is available to participants, libraries and by purchase to the public. The intent of the Forum is to encourage new voices to share their research in a scholarly but non-academic setting. At this upcoming Forum, we especially encourage those who have been doing research in traditional hand process to share what they know so that traditions are not lost. We learn more from each other and we learn the most over a good lunch!

Please think about presenting a paper or works-in-progress at the Textile History Forum at the Marshfield School of Weaving July 27 – 29, 2018.

Jasper Green Silk Basket Damask Special Sale

We have a very special fabric for sale. This is the basket pattern found at Hyde Hall that we reproduced for a client. It is 100% silk and we have had the fabric backed and stain-proofed, ready to be upholstered. The client cancelled and we are left with several yards ready to go.

We are happy to sell this by the yard at a greatly reduced price of $125/ yard. Its 42 inches wide. Please contact us for more information.

A Very Special Sale of Our Beautiful Fabrics

Help! We are overstocked with glorious fabrics that we have made for some very fancy customers, so we’re having a special overstock sale on Saturday, February 25 from 9am to 4pm at our mill.

Buy a yard or more of our historic or high fashion fabrics that are one of a kind at super sale prices! We really need the space so, a great savings for you and more space for us.

Our bundles of scraps for $10.00 are a great little surprise gift for anyone, and if you missed out at the Holiday Sale, we still have a few scarves, blankets, hand towels and placemats available!

My blanket of Courage

Please Join Us For Our Second Annual Open House

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Please join us for our second annual open house this holiday season, where you can take a tour of the mill, watch our historic looms run, see our current projects and buy holiday gifts from our showroom.

Open House Schedule:

  • Saturday, December 3, 9am-5pm: mill tours and refreshments
  • Sunday, December 4, 9am-5pm: mill tours and refreshments
  • Sunday, 2:30pm: lecture on Hyde Hall curtain fabrics

We are located at 143 Baxter Road in Cherry Valley NY 13320
Phone: 518.284.2729

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The 1751 Damask

Worsted and crepe cloak fabric

Reproduction Blankets on the Loom