Floral Cretonnes

Tulip quilt with a cretonne border

19th century

from Laura Fisher at Fisher Heritage

www.laurafisherquilts.com

I've done a few posts on cretonnes,

the end-of-the-19th-century 

version of chintz furnishing prints.

I've shown several pictorial fabrics:

circuses and hunting scenes, dogs and cats.

But, as in nearly every print style, florals were the most popular.

Mills in France, England and New England did an

impressive job on the cretonnes of the 1880s and later.

They had perfected the drawing style and the

color registration

Roses are always in fashion.

Some designs were highly mannered

with exotic flowers made more

exotic by the artists.

One classic cretonne style pretended to look like

woven rather than printed design.

We love cretonnes at Moda and have

done many reproductions.

Double Chocolate repro by 3 Sisters

Meadow by Barb and Alma for Blackbird Designs

Rhubarb & Ginger by Blackbird Designs

Edyta Sitar for Laundry Basket Quilts

Shooting Star by Edyta Sitar

Love Letters by Edyta Sitar

Mariner's Compass pieced by Roseanne Smith 

in my

Arnold's Attic collection.

Here's my latest cretonne reproduction,

an exotic floral called "Love's Token" from the Ladies' Album

line coming out in March, 2014.

Here's a link to the whole collection:

http://storefront.unitednotions.com/storefrontCommerce/search.do?searchType=keyword&keyword=ladies+album&emailAddress=