{"id":472,"date":"2013-09-13T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/1950s-patio-prints-on-barkcloth-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:21:00","slug":"1950s-patio-prints-on-barkcloth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/1950s-patio-prints-on-barkcloth-2.html","title":{"rendered":"1950’s Patio Prints on Barkcloth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBarkcloth is a heavyweight, cotton fabric with a rough
\ntextured surface.  Do not confuse this
\nwith a textile made from the bark of various trees: breadfruit, fig and paper
\nmulberry found in South America and more frequently, Polynesia.<\/div>\n
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\nGrandma\u2019s barkcloth was manufactured in the late 1940\u2019s and
\n50\u2019s when fine fabric was scarce due to WWII. 
\nIt is usually associated with large-scale prints of tropical florals and
\nbirds.  These fabrics were bold in
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\nBecause of their terrific graphic qualities and the
\nsturdiness of the weave, barkcloth became very popular as an upholstery fabric,
\nespecially for porch and patio furniture. 
\nI remember seeing it on furniture in my grandmother\u2019s \u201cFlorida Room\u201d, as
\nsun rooms were often called, although she lived nowhere near Florida. Actually,
\nthe climate wasn\u2019t really sunny most of the time either.<\/div>\n
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\nToday \u201cpatio prints\u201d of barkcloth are very popular once
\nagain and vintage barkcloth is fetching surprising prices.  One word of caution, most vintage remnants
\nlived a prior life as curtains, draperies or upholstered pillows and
\ncushions.  If the fabric was placed in a
\nroom with direct sunlight and heat (they didn\u2019t call them sun rooms for
\nnothing) the textile will have become fragile and often fractures or splits
\nwill occur with reuse.  If you are
\nplanning on using this type of fabric for upholstery consider purchasing a
\nreproduction and save the vintage for pillows and small accessories.<\/div>\n
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\nOccasionally, one might find textured, heavy, cotton fabrics
\ndepicting a bucolic scene reminiscent of toiles, incongruous though it sounds, a
\nfinely etched design on linen or cotton compared to a printed scene on roughly
\ntextured fabric. These mid twentieth century fabrics were produced for the
\nmiddle class market by companies such as Waverly Fabrics and F. Schumacher
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Grandma\u2019s Bark Cloth Barkcloth is a heavyweight, cotton fabric with a rough textured surface.  Do not confuse this with a textile made from the bark of various trees: breadfruit, fig and paper mulberry found in South America and more frequently, Polynesia. Grandma\u2019s barkcloth was manufactured in the late 1940\u2019s and 50\u2019s when fine fabric was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}