Vintage Fabric Style: Inspirational Ideas for Using Antique and Retro Fabrics in Your Home

Vintage fabrics are the latest trend and who can resist them? Antique quilts, funky 1950s tablecloths, fine old linens, intriguing scraps of velvet and lace...there's more available than you know what to do with. Now Vintage Fabric Style presents chic ideas and projects that incorporate these fabrics into beautiful home accessories to help create your personal style. Blending their specialties, textiles expert Lucinda Ganderton and stylist Rose Hammick gives step-by-step instructions for inspiring projects, such as transforming an old piece of patchwork into county-style curtains, making a luxurious comforter cover from old damask napkins, and turning old family cast-offs into a lovely baby's quilt. Photographer Catherine Gratwicke uses her background in textile design to focus on each project both close-up and in its environment. Vintage Fabric Style is so inspirational, you'll run out of hand-me-downs before you run out of ideas.

Hidden in grandmothers' sewing boxes, piled high in flea-market stall or hiding out in the back of your linen closet...vintage fabrics in every style, color and condition are just waiting to be transformed into beautiful home accessories. In Vintage Fabric Style, textiles and soft-furnishings expert Lucinda Ganderton and stylist Rose Hammick suggest a multitude of creative ways to use these treasures - from showing how to transform an old piece of patchwork into country-style curtains to making a sturdy apron from an old pair of jeans.

Lucinda Ganderton is the author of The Complete Guide to Needlecraft, Applique, and the bestselling Stitch Dictionary. She has contributed to many magazines and books, including Home Furnishing with Fabric and Window Treatments (both Ryland Peters and Small), and played a leading role in Change That, a British TV series on crafts and interiors. She is a graduate of Goldsmith College, London, where she studied Fine Art Textiles.

Rose Hammick is a photography stylist whose work can be seen in interiors magazines such as Country Homes and Interiors and Homes and Gardens. She has contributed to several books, including The Scented Home and, for Ryland Peters and Small, A Handful of Herbs and Planted Junk.

Catherine Gratwicke trained as a textile designer, using photography as inspiration for her woven designs. She worked for a textile design consultancy as a photographer and designer before turning to a full-time career in photography. Her striking style, with its richly colored and painterly effect, has made her much in demand with magazines such as Marie Claire, Homes and Gardens, Elle Decoration, and Red. For Ryland Peters and Small, Catherine took the photographs for On Display and Global Style.