40’s 50’s Stony Brook New York Mid Century Neighborhood Barkcloth Vintage Fabric Upholstery Drapery Pillows 6YDS Avail!

It is highly uncommon to find a actual textile devoted to a specific town...it makes this rare and iconic relic something of an extraordinary value on the collectibility scale...I would imagine someone with Stony Brook, New York as a soft spot...would be the rightful owner of such a commodity of rare genius...the colors are phenomenal...so bold and bright they captivate the eye...crazy electric lime...deepest darkest turquoise green...creamy honeydew melon green...pomegranate...dove gray...cocoa chocolate...creamy heather purple...with black accents on a strikingly clean and absolutely unused textured barkcloth from the 30's 40's...if you are one who loves these crazy old prints...or are a historian or textilephile...certainly any of the museums or cultural education centers for the town would be of interest in this rare old stock yardage!

This offering is for ONE YARD x 49 inches wide of a very uber collectible pastural landscape SIGNED "Design Stony Brook Vat Colors"...I have SIX yards available sold individually and extremely rare...if you google the town of Stony Brook, New York and search images...you will see that this is the exact historic village of the sweet little cottage hamlet of Stony Brook...right down the the town post office that even today remains the prized center of town...expext unused...unwashed and mint yardage. You can search to the ends of the earth for this stuff...and you will only find it here...a nice rare treasure. to read more on the enclave of Stony Brook...read more below.

Stony Brook, New York, is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island...it begun in the colonial era as an agricultural enclave...the hamlet experienced growth first as a resort town and then to its current state as one of Long Island's major tourist towns and centers of education...despite being referred to as a village by residents and tourists alike, Stony Brook has never been legally incorporated by the state...it is also home to the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages and the Stony Brook Village Center, a privately maintained commercial center that was planned in the style of a traditional New England village. The Long Island Railroad reached Stony Brook in the 1870s, creating an easy link between New York City and the community. Stony Brook quickly became a popular summer resort for city dwellers attempting to escape the hazards and stress of urban life. The establishment of the Stony Brook Assembly in 1909, also helped to draw more residents to the local area. A number of these newcomers constructed houses and cottages, many of which were either originally made for year-round use or have since been converted to such. Nevertheless, the majority of residences were local farmers and businessmen who depended on all necessities being in easy reach. Most businesses were then located on the compact plot that would become the contemporary village green. Unlike today, the shops in this area were utilitarian and haphazardly arranged.

Beginning in 1939 with the creation of his Stony Brook Community Fund, Melville used his wealth to begin the transformation of part of the hamlet into his idea of an idyllic New England village, the Stony Brook Village Center, with white clapboard buildings and quaint stores. The focus had been in the previous center of the village's commerce, which now consists of a village green and a crescent of stores embellished with stone walkways and seasonal gardening. To accomplish this, Melville moved many of the existing shops in the plot into the crescent and modified their details for consistency, a design model similar to that of Colonial Williamsburg. As a centerpiece to the crescent, Melville built the Stony Brook Post Office, decorated by a large eagle that flaps its wings to mark each hour.

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