Caring for your Vintage & Antique Linens & Textiles

Caring For Your Vintage and Antique Linens and Textiles—Part OneRemoving Stains and Washing Textiles and LinensThe one question that I get asked over and over whenever I’m doing a show is: “How do you get your linens so clean?” The answer is not very exotic: A lot of soaking and patience! Antique and vintage linens require gentle care, but in most cases, can be used and enjoyed for years to come.Soaking and washing will clean most linen quite nicely. Occasionally, there will be a spot or stain that...

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Good advice from a leading expert – caring for fine antique furniture

Good advice from a leading expert – caring for fine antique furnitureDecember 10, 2008If you have the good fortune to own fine antique furniture, you have a responsibility to preserve it for future generations. Mary Helen McCoy, founder and president of Mary Helen McCoy Fine Antiques, a director of The Art and Antiques Dealers League of America and one of only 15 U.S. dealers to be a member of the prestigious Syndicat National des Antiquaires, offers these tips for caring for antique furniture:...

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Hand Painted Photo Art

Home Page - Comprehensive Coverage in the World of Antiques » Features » Columns » Art Markets: Hand-painted photo art can fool the eyeArt Markets: Hand-painted photo art can fool the eyeNovember 12, 2008by Mary ManionAn interior colonial scene, Affectionately Yours is a hand-colored photograph by Wallace Nutting done by his studio circa 1915-25.Recently a customer brought what he thought was a painting...

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Vintage Music Boxes

I love vintage music boxes and some of the new ones today. I find they make great collectible gifts to give to a special person or for yourself. Music Boxes come in so many different materials. There are wooden ones, ceramic ones, glass and metal ones also.I love anything Victorian and when I come across one I tend to keep it for myself. Its hard to give it away unless its for a dearly beloved friend.I have a few that are also unique like a ballerina in a Wooden Jewelry Box, it is in the shape of...

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Every Place I Sell

This is a great tool from Auction Bytes, http://www.auctionbytes.com/ which is a great trade publication for online merchants. It allows you to show all of your venues where you sell on the web. You can sign up at http://www.everyplaceisell.co...

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Creative Shop Talk Sellers

Today i have added this excellent rotating banner to my blog. We are a group of sellers who have joined this great forum.here you will find many different stores, helps galore and great folks who are willing to give of themselves.Here is a place where you can learn many good tricks of the trade, and whatever you might be looking for in Vintage Collectibles Toys Collectible Books Vintage Clothes and Vintage Linens you are sure to find your favorite collectibles.So stop in and see for yourself what...

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Glass Baskets

I found this article and it is most interesting on Vintage Glass BasketsHome Page - Comprehensive Coverage in the World of Antiques » Features » Getting a handle on glass basketsGetting a handle on glass basketsJune 11, 2008by Carrie P. Jones This is an example of cased glass, also referred to as overlay in America. The basket’s clear glass exterior has a beaded and swirled ribbed pattern and its...

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New Year

Hi and Happy New Year to all from out-of-the-attic-4uhttp://outoftheattic4u.com/Things have been great this past year and hoping it will even be better for this new year coming. So many things have been happening for me. I did good in my auctions and hope to do better.I met many new people here and on the net.I aquired a new web site that I won from epro sales. Its my own lil niche, come and take...

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