It's a balaclava weekend

Or just a stay inside and make candles, which is what we're doing...

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Marimekko ABC, 1968

Marimekko ABC fabric designed by Kerstin Ratia, 1968.

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Lore Leudesdorff Bauhaus weaving, 1923; New-Friends weavings, 2012

Placemat size. How great would an entire table look? (forget the plates of food)

From the book Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste

Related, the beautiful small weavings of Kelly and Alexandra of New Friends:

Also, Gunta Stolzl, 1928:
http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/2012/08/gunta-stolzl-bauhaus-weaving-1928.html

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Gunta Stolzl Bauhaus Weaving, 1928

From the book 50 years Bauhaus, 1970, prepared by Herbert Bayer et al.
related at GuntaStolzl.org

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A Navajo Indian Woollen Blanket

How fantastic is this? 

70"x59", $3600 

From Sotheby's Art at Auction, 1973

Related:
The best moment ever on Antiques Roadshow:

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Boro Sweet Boro

With a little help from us Urban Outfitters has boro'd the Japanese Boro Jean Quilt project from our book and made it into a cool hippie wall hanging. "Boro" is Japanese for rags, and is most often used in reference to the resourcefully mended, endlessly repaired indigo cotton futon covers of the farmers and fishers of Northern Japan. (See much more info here, and here was our primary source of inspiration during the original project). Our quilt version was made from salvaged old jeans.

Although Urban's is a slightly smaller size quilt it would also make a cool dog bed or a kind of tami mat or boro blankie for a kid.

The plum blossom-y peasant print on the back fabric (above) was also designed by us.
The middle photo is the Urban's sample, on top of our larger original, as it came to us to be okayed. The top photo is a spread from our book, taken near Linda's parents' house Long Island, Maine. The old hippie anthropomorphic shack being a "sweet home" ;-)




Home Sweet Home by Wary Meyers Denim Wall Art at Urban Outfitters

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The Point

Second hand needlepoints, always found for a dollar or two, and always making us ask "why would anyone get rid of this?" From top: the coolest tennis racquet cover ever, from a church sale. Obviously for a plumber, or a tennis pro with a wandering pipe; a nice colorful glasses case; a so sweet gift from a grandmother featuring an 8-bit sized Jack Russell; an old Union Jack pincushion; floating mushrooms; a funny Gucci purse, from an estate sale in Old Orchard Beach; two blue willow pillows; an old Princetonian eyeglasses case; a pink-and-metallic pillow from 1974; and Harry Nilsson's The Point, memorized by John from when he was a kid and now cued up on the toy turntable in our soon-to-arrive son's room (who needs "hickory-dickory-dock" when you have "Me and my Arrow".)

see also here and here

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Textiles

Click to enlarge each of these.

top: From a yard sale last weekend, 6'x5' wool patchwork blanket, backed in wool. The woman told us "a girl made it for my husband back in the 70's". It's in perfect condition- probably taken from the back seat of the Volvo wagon directly into storage. She said she'd take the 4 dollars and buy herself a martini.

Middle: Fantastic 8' Turkish runner from an estate sale. The edges are frayed but they can be trimmed and fringe added back on.

Bottom: From the 30's, an awesome crazy-quilting patchwork of denim and twills, with a few odd-shaped pieces within each square. 

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Beautility

1970's Sweet-Orr jeans from an estate sale in Connecticut a few years ago. Lovingly and Bohemianly embroidered with flowers, a rainbow, "Catherine" (Cat) and the Yes and Chicago logos, all boro-ed on for jean-life-extension. A near perfect object, with personalization, signs of use, and the golden hat trick of  hippie handicraft, typography, and utility. 

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R 97

From a thrift shop in Hialeah, Fl., $9.00 

An excellent job, R, whoever you are. Thanks.

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vintage fish pillow

with convenient built-in handle

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