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Snow mom
04-15-2014, 11:37 PM
I'm completely lost. We purchased a couple of yards of this fabric at a specialty quilting store (not big box) back in 2009 for my MIL to make curtains for DDs nursery. I'm scouring the Internet trying to figure out what it is but I know next to nothing about fabrics so can't even come up with good search terms. I'm fairly certain it's printed and that's truly all I know. I'm attaching a close up and a broader picture of the fabric. I think the color is more accurate in the close up. The pattern is small--the close picture is maybe 1-1.5" of fabric from top to bottom. Can anyone give me a hint of what this might be or what types of terms you might search to find it? Is there any hope of finding fabric which I both five years ago?

http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt233/lisasnow/imagejpg1_zps19c21008.jpg

http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt233/lisasnow/imagejpg2_zpse0994c46.jpg

ahisma
04-15-2014, 11:42 PM
Is there any information / text at the edges of the fabric, in the selvedge?

Snow mom
04-15-2014, 11:48 PM
Is there any information / text at the edges of the fabric, in the selvedge?

I don't know--it's been curtains for five years :duh:. I never expected to be looking for more.

BunnyBee
04-15-2014, 11:56 PM
Try a google search on that image. I can't do it from my phone, but there are several methods if you google. Yes, google how to google!

Good luck finding it. Maybe someone's de-stashing it on etsy or eBay and you get lucky!

amatahrain
04-15-2014, 11:58 PM
Is there any information / text at the edges of the fabric, in the selvedge?
This is what I was thinking. Also if you could get a higher resolution pic you might be able to do a google search. When I right click on the pic and searched google for the image I didn't get a match but I've had pretty good success in the past.

larig
04-16-2014, 12:04 AM
This is what I was thinking. Also if you could get a higher resolution pic you might be able to do a google search. When I right click on the pic and searched google for the image I didn't get a match but I've had pretty good success in the past.

I tried using tineye.com to do this (it searches the internet for images that are matches). I thought maybe if you could find a match maybe it would be a link to a fabric store. Tineye found no matches. :-(

ahisma
04-16-2014, 12:30 AM
Do you recall which fabric store? It's a long shot, but maybe a long-timer there may remember it. There are fabric swap groups on FB too, maybe try there?

jerigirl
04-16-2014, 01:32 AM
Is it just quilting cotton? It is going to be hard to find something so old without info off of the selvedge.

ETA: I would call that pattern "filigree"

jerigirl
05-01-2014, 01:44 PM
I came across this site today
http://www.missingfabrics.com/index.htm

Might be of help to you.