Welcome to my new feature — apprising you of the latest additions to my shop each week. The biggest news about this week is that Lady Virginia Vintage is part of Etsy's Cyber Sale 2020. In my shop you can get between 10%-20% on almost everything in the shop with free domestic shipping on orders over $35. The one exception to our sale is that we couldn't discount our Robert Allen Ming Dragon … [Read more...] about Cyber Week Sale, 10%-20% off, Ends Dec. 2
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My Beautiful Ugly Packaging
"Beauty is as beauty does" — Chaucer in The Wife of Bath's Tale (c. 1387) (Originally "Handsome is as handsome does.") The other day an ad for "sustainable" branded packaging passed through my Instagram feed. The eye candy hooked me, and I clicked through. On their About page the company, Noissue, says they were founded ...to provide makers, brands and businesses of all sizes access to … [Read more...] about My Beautiful Ugly Packaging
My Birthday Buying Trip for Vintage Fabrics and Textiles
Like most of us, travel hasn't really been on the agenda this year due to Covid restrictions and Covid caution. I know for many folks it's been tough to not get out to see relatives afar, and tough to forgo travel jaunts of every kind. My own take on travel is to almost exclusively travel in my home state of Virginia, with a little travel further afield occasionally. Over 30 years ago I … [Read more...] about My Birthday Buying Trip for Vintage Fabrics and Textiles
How to Take Care of a Fabric Covid Mask
While people in East Asia and other parts of the world have dealt with wearing face masks during other pandemics, during flu season, and even to cut the personal impact of pollution for years, in America, wearing fabric masks during the Covid pandemic has been a totally new experience for most of us. Unless you work in healthcare and are required to wear disposable medical masks, chances are … [Read more...] about How to Take Care of a Fabric Covid Mask
Customer Profile: Meg Busacca and Her Amazing Masks
Editor’s Note: The second in an occasional series focused on Lady Virginia Vintage customers and their projects using our fabrics. See the other profiles here. Earlier this year I was thrilled when one of my Etsy customers, Meg Busacca, left me such a nice review: This fabric is one of my absolute favorites! I am so happy with it, it really is special. I love this shop! Who doesn't love … [Read more...] about Customer Profile: Meg Busacca and Her Amazing Masks
Book Review: ‘The Golden Thread, How Fabric Changed History’ by Kassia St. Clair
"The industry of fabric is older than pottery or metallurgy and perhaps even than agriculture and stock-breeding. Cloth is the original technology." So writes Kassia St. Clair in the introduction to her 2018 book The Golden Thread, How Fabric Changed History*. It's a pithy statement, yet with it she hints at a thesis that the book amply — and entertainingly — defends throughout: that cloth … [Read more...] about Book Review: ‘The Golden Thread, How Fabric Changed History’ by Kassia St. Clair
