The Egrets have long been some of my most collectible of barkcloth fabrics...as most of mine are original to my collection 30 something years ago from hotels in Miami Beach...South Beach mostly...where these patterns were still hanging on windows in once grand hotels...as other antique dealers were hauling mid century Heywood Wakefield dressers and Eames era lamps...I was stepping over them for the draperies...they thought I was crazy...what would some early twenty something kid want with these old funky draperies...well...here I sit this many years later with still a large portion of my barkcloth hoard still intact...still coveted and protected in my possession...moving with me from apartment to apartment...Victorian to Victorian...to mid century ranch...me and my birds are still connected...after all these years...it is hard for me to part with them...I get a bit of a anxiety even putting them up...because I know there is no price tag high enough to compensate me for the story of my life at the time...the story of the fabric...and for decades of carrying them like a torch...so that others...like you...could own a piece of my story...a piece of a time from Miami Beach...a relic from the Art Deco 30's that can never be recreated...these pieces of art are much more than a simple piece of fabric...they are testaments to a time and place that once was...memories that can never be recreated...designers who have passed and who's only legacy is these timeless cotton icons...
This offering is for TWO YARDS and 8 inches x 37 inches wide...of an extremely rare variation of the egrets that came out of Miami Beach...it is unused unwashed stock that someone sewed a tiny 1/4 inch hem in the edge of one side...the other edge is original selvedge...a very large remnant of the most collectible of the Swirling Egret pattern of barkcloth...unused yardage...unwashed...and in flawless condition!! Bold hues of chartreuse...squash and lemon yellows...magenta berry red...dark merlot...BOLD ORANGE...lime...deepest darkest turquoise green...chocolate...with black and white accents on a fresh gray ground...this is a Spectrum Original Vat Print unsigned. Cool tones of grays with flamingo pink and caribbean turquoise...creamy lemon yellow...chocolate...with black and white accents. If you don't have this in your collection...what are you waiting for??!! :) I have 2 available.
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