Textiles

Textiles for old house interior design, including period-appropriate carpets, rugs, floor coverings, pillows, bedding, table cloths, curtains, drapes, portieres and more.

Textiles

A review of the “unseen” floor coverings of early America challenges the myth that colonial homes were bare.

By Old House Journal

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They still make floorcloths.

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Fashions for windows in early homes run from the simplest homespun on a string, to fancier layered treatments.

At the Jonas More House, a large carpet is made of stitched lengths of birdseye carpet with a border in a Greek key design.

Textiles

A review of the “unseen” floor coverings of early America challenges the myth that colonial homes were bare.

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Gold accents in the Empire table are set against a warm, period blue in the dining room at Ames Plantation in Tennessee; trim is classical white. Photo: Robt. Ames Cook

Interiors & Decor

The cannonball bed, with distinctive turnings for both head- and footboards, dates to the 1820–1850 period. This reproduction is from Circa Home Living, as are the coverlet, blanket, pillows, and hand-painted plantation box.

Furniture

Unlike the kitchen, the bedroom is an easy place to indulge in historical decorating and furniture.

Cooper’s Pine Cone pattern is at home in rustic, cottage-style, and Arts & Crafts houses.

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A full guide to choosing and caring for lace curtains.

Vivid color in a striped Venetian wool carpet at the Bump Tavern, Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Photo: RIchard Walker

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Wool carpet is not only a historic choice for your home but an environmentally friendly interior flooring option.

Designer Barry Dixon applied batting and soft gray Rogers & Goffigon mohair to the walls of a New York City loft to absorb sound. The result is understated opulence.

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A newly reproduced list (rag) rug in the boys’ bedroom at Locust Grove (1792) in Louisville, Kentucky; S and Z twists in the stripes are common design elements. By The Weavery

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Carpets and rugs vary greatly in style and in cost. Here we take a look at various floor coverings in early homes.

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Rugs were an important part of Arts & Crafts houses. Far more than mere floor coverings, their colors, textures, and patterns helped integrate house and furnishings in the pursuit of a totally designed environment.

Floral tapestry pillows with deep ball fringe are the perfect counterpoint for a late-19th-century Renaissance Revival bed.

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While the decorative pillows may not be a necessity, they are pretty and comfortable which is perhaps why every generation has one.

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