posted on June 12, 2006 07:20:39 AM new
It's actually kinda related -- I have hundreds of textile patterns from the Bates Mill in Lewiston, Maine and one of my customers told me there was an article, or maybe a snippet in the February Country Home magazine featuring the framed ones. Would love to have a copy, or a scan of the article -- anyone here? I can't find a contact for ordering back issues on the web.
posted on June 12, 2006 07:56:07 AM new
I can't find the back issues available to read online. You might try the public library. I just checked amazon and ebay. I thought there was one. I guess I was wrong. The library might be your best bet.
posted on June 12, 2006 09:10:21 AM new
I subscribe, and I pile the issues I've read in a corner for a cousin of mine who visits a couple times a year. I'll check to see if I have the February issue. If so, you can have it!
posted on June 12, 2006 09:14:14 AM new
Wow! If you do, take a look and see if you would like a pattern in return! (The person selling them is getting something like $300 a piece framed ....)
posted on June 12, 2006 10:54:15 AM new
Birgit, alas! It's not here any longer; the cousin must have visited later in the spring than I thought, and I'm sure she now has that issue.
I'm thinking you might want to start a new thread here with a title something like "need February 2006 Country Home magazine." Someone might spot it and have it. Good luck!
posted on June 12, 2006 02:11:00 PM new
Thanks all -- I found one for me, but need a second one for a customer in Arizona to whom I just shipped another batch of patterns. Her shop copy was "borrowed" by a customer and never returned. It's a great add on for sales, since most customers can't visualize much of anything on their own....
posted on June 12, 2006 08:49:57 PM new
I've just gone through my 2/06 Country Home Magazine and don't find the article/snippet. Please provide a little more information - I'm dying to see the textiles. Did you get your second copy yet?
posted on June 12, 2006 09:15:19 PM new
The patterns are not textiles, but rather the paper guides or schematics that the mill used to set the looms with the threads of the coverlets. Each pattern is done in various reds, some yellows, on graph paper, miniscule dot by dot. Probably took days to do one set, and when they messed up, the artist or pattern maker cut and spliced rather than start over. Date from about 1960-90s when the mill closed. They're absolutely fabulous! Very popular coverlets in the 50s but company dates back to before Civil War. Best known for Martha Washington, but you guys might remember those cotton spreads with cacti, sail boats etc.
I just bought my copy today, and should have in a few days. Surely hope my customer was right about the date of the magazine! She is the one who alerted me when she paid for this batch. Here, a photo so you can see:
I tried them on eBay once, but I think they may be touchy-feely things, so I've been selling them at shows.
posted on June 12, 2006 10:39:54 PM new
On page 52 of the issue, Andrew Spindler Antiques shows off some ironstone and some framed "graphic watercolors." The red and white "watercolors" do seem to bear the likeness of your patterns. When you get your copy, please confirm/inform us the outcome. Connie
posted on June 15, 2006 08:47:37 AM new
Just got my magazine copy from eBay purchase -- and yes, that's them. Interesting to see how he did them -- and in a group, they do look pretty good although I probably would have preferred them framed with the white margins and pencilled notes. To each his own.
Here:
Thanks guys for your help! I will suggest my buyer check on eBay to get hers -- isn't eBay just too wonderful sometimes!
posted on June 15, 2006 09:20:04 AM new
I love buying magazines on eBay. A year and a half ago, I bought everyone subscriptions for Xmas - super cheap but we had low spending limits. Last Chrsitmas, I gave vintage magazines: a Time magazine with a small article and picture of my Grandfather in it and a Newsweek that had a picture of my Dad in it- bought up all that I could find!
