HELP, Please!!!!!
On today's vintage piece I could use a little help.~~~I'm not sure what it is! This little piece measures 14'X36". My first thought is that it is a table runner and that's how it was sold to me. In looking at it and feeling it, I'm beginning to wonder if it's not a "fancy" tea-towel. The material is kind of coarse feeling (Almost feels like an old feed sack!) and each end is embroidered in the same pattern...Reddish/maroon flowers with blue bows. If anyone has an idea what it actually is, I would appreciate you letting me know. I bought it for re-sale in my shop and would hate to advertise it has a table runner and then have someone tell me it's a tea-towel! HA
posted by OLD CROW FARM @ 4:07 AM
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it could also be an antimacassar(sp?) or commonly known as a chair back cover. Very common in England in the 40's.
I think it is a "make-do" dresser scarf or table runner. Many times, extra fabric that was left over was used to make these things, especially if a family was not wealthy. From the looks of the simple embroidery on it, it could have been a teenage girl's practice item, put in her hope chest, and kept through the years. I do have some of these runners made from all types of fabrics -- from two towels sewn together in the middle, to long strips of damask tablecloths with the embroidery done at either end.
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Cora
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