This is a worsted wool ingrain carpet that we call Sandusky, circa 1850, installed in Castigon House in Madison, Indiana.
Reproduction chairs at the Schuyler Mansion covered in our copper embossed damask.
Another view of a reproduction chair at the Schuyler Mansion covered in our copper embossed damask.
Sarepta Brown Cotton from Louisiana is a natural brown colored cotton. The Acadian style is derived from French textiles and popular in the Southern Louisiana culture.
These are double bed size blankets woven from natural colored brown cotton and dyed cotton. A special project and each blanket is different.
A closeup view of a stack of Acadian style blankets.
Carpet woven for St. George Tabernacle, Church of Latter Day Saints
Carpet woven for St. George Tabernacle, Church of Latter Day Saints
Carpet woven for St. George Tabernacle, Church of Latter Day Saints
Carpet woven for St. George Tabernacle, Church of Latter Day Saints
We're very proud of our new jacquard loom that enables us
to weave worsted damask, silk and Figured Ingrain Carpet.
to weave worsted damask, silk and Figured Ingrain Carpet.
This all wool Venetian varpet is woven in "The Hartford Figure," a pattern from an early Connecticut weaver's draft book. Venetian carpets work very well on stairs, and they were often installed on staircases in period homes.
Here's one of our traditionally inspired Venetian carpets installed in a hall and staircase. You can have custom carpet and superior quality in a modern adaptation of a historic carpet design.
Our Venetian carpets can be installed on curving and complex staircases. Pie-shaped stairs and landings are no problem.
We can produce very close reproductions of historic carpet. This image shows a surviving original fragment (above) and our reproduction (below) as it is being woven on the loom. We custom dyed the yarns and matched the pattern exactly.
Geometric ingrain tape and fringe
Silk fringe
Tassel trim
White trim on the loom
White trim on the loom
Authentic reproduction coach lace
We wove this authentic reproduction coach lace for the restoration of a 1939 Cadillac interior. Coach laces were among the highest accomplishments of passementerie and very complicated to produce. They are really a type of velvet with raised pile and often more than one warp. We make all kinds of historic reproduction trims, by hand, including tapes, tassels cording, and fringes.
Pointed ribbon trim
A worsted baize, embossed with a bark moiré. This is a drapery and upholstery fabric in a deep, rich cinnabar color. It is being used as drapery in Liberty Hall in Frankfort, Kentucky. We've woven it in two weights: a single baize and a double baize.
Close-up of Thomas Jackson Diamonds diaper dimity in white cotton
This is a traditional Twill Block coverlet in cotton and wool fearing medium indigo blue and dark indigo blue. It is reversible.
An historic reproduction blanket.
This ingrain carpet is a documented pattern from the mid 1840’s. There are two documented color ways. One is blues and white and the other is in reds and greens. We have reproduced both document color ways.
In this image, the carpet is installed in the Columbia County Historical Society as part of a Civil War parlor exhibit. Notice that it is installed as an area carpet not wall to wall. This is more common post Civil War.
Guest towel in even-striped herringbone cotton dimity
Runner in green and blue figured worsted hearts and diamonds
This is a rainbow scarf in silk and worsted in a color scheme that was popular in the 1840's for drapery.
Lincoln Home front parlor drapery.
Lincoln Home parlor drapery.
Close up of crepe weave blanket in natural colors from local wool Spun by Battenkil Fibers.
This is the silk warp for the Lincoln Damask for the drapery in the parlors at the Lincoln Home in Springfield IL. The pattern is created largely by the by the warp colors so we had to get the colors correct in a thread by thread sequence.
Lincoln Damask reproduced from the drapery in the parlor of Lincoln's Springfield IL home. The warp is silk with worsted wool filling.
Lincoln Home Damask scaled to the jacquard at Thistle Hill Weavers
Embossed damask drapery in the Lincoln Home front family room.
Embossed damask drapery in the Lincoln Home front family room.
Reverse side of the Lincoln Parlor Damask. Silk warp and worsted filling.
This is a reproduction of the damask that was in use in the parlors at Lincoln's home in Springfield Il. We have changed the scale slightly to fit our jacquard loom harness.
The warp is silk and the filling is worsted wool.
John is both a weaver and loom fixer at Thistle Hill Weavers. Here he is weaving on the Beekman 1802 version of the Lincoln shawls. The big S6 was built by Crompton and Knowles. We brought it up from South Boston, Virginia out of the Halifax Damask Mill.
Stair carpet at the Thomas Cole House in Catskill NY
Stair carpet at the Thomas Cole House in Catskill NY
