“For anyone with a taste for motorcycles and retro product design styling, here’s the perfect lighting solution. Recycled from old motorcycle parts (and the occasional household appliance), Lamponi Lamps are designed and constructed by Milan born artist Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi, bringing sleek speedy and recycled design to your tabletop.” I think the one on the […]
Erin of A Dress A Day has started the Vintage Sewing Pattern Wiki! From the wiki: With this wiki, we are hoping to have one place where people can go to browse through vintage patterns and find: links to sellers who have particular patterns in stock reviews by people who have made the patterns links […]
Planning to be a flapper for Halloween? Donna Reed? Priscilla Presley? The Vintage Hair Archive is here to help! There’s a great collection of hairstyles from the 20s through the 70s, many with styling instructions. (Holy cow are they a lot of work! But what else is Halloween for?) Link.
While touring around Phoenix’s First Friday yesterday (a monthly art walk), I came across these collages by Ami Minnick. She uses vintage cards and ads from the ’40s-’60s to make these very precise and attractive collages. She doesn’t have a website; if you have any more information, post it in the comments! Larger photo available […]
image borrowed from eBay seller missionman4fishing Some of my favorite knitting patterns out there are vintage ones created by Knit-O-Graf. The motifs–which appear on everything from cardigans to Christmas stockings–are offbeat and playful with just the right amount of kitsch. Look ’em up on eBay today for some yarny fun. Link.
Unbuffered, acid-free tissue paper should be used for storing heirloom garments and fibers, just the same way acid-free photo albums protect your keepsake pictures from color change and decay. From the review on Cool Tools: For years I’ve been relying on inexpensive, unbuffered acid-free tissue paper to ensure some dear family heirlooms will remain in […]
Ohio Knitting Mills, the Brooklyn based store that sells beautiful vintage knits from 1947-1974, has just opened their new online store! I got a chance to check out the goods up close and personal at their recent trunk show in San Francisco. Check out the collection for men and women online here. Link.
