It’s time for part two of our Flashback Friday series with Barbara Brackman! Today, she’s discussing shirting prints and showing you some fabrics that we have in stock that were inspired by shirting!
Shirting Prints for Contrast
Shirting is an old name for a print design featuring small, simple figures on a light background color. Figures are set far apart to let lots of background show through so they read almost as a white or ivory. Several designers offer classic shirtings—- the perfect neutral to capture a period look: 1870-1920.
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| Antique log cabin block with shirtings as the neutral contrasting with darker prints. About 1880. |
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Woman wearing a shirtwaist dress, about 1900. Fashion demanded shirtings
for everybody so there were plenty of scraps for quilts. |
We’ll be back on December 31 with our next segment of Flashback Friday with Barbara Brackman!
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I love these posts…perfect amount of info. Thank you!
Good information. I love the shirtings and wish I could wear them! We have very little lovely style in our clothes now!Leggings is the go to and pretty prints are only for children. I will have to make myself a blouse with shirting print. After all, I am a quilter and my iron is my friend!
This is some wonderful info, thank you!
I love shirtings and can't stop adding them to my stash!!
Love the shirtings; never enough in my stash, so I'm always trolling for more everywhere I go. Thanks for the education you provide to us, Ms. Brackman.