Homespun Fabric, Location, Usage and Care Tips

Homespun fabric is in demand and hard to locate. The delightful antique fabric that our ancestors created by spending hours dying, spinning and weaving are highly coveted as a piece of American history. The antique, homemade, or rather homespun, fabric that you are able to locate is usually little more than a checkered remnant piece that has survived from a larger table cloth or bed sheet. Occasionally there is the rare find of a large piece of homespun fabric that has been properly cared for over the years and not deteriorated

Homespun fabrics can be located at auctions, antique shop, antique fabric dealers or perhaps even in your own cedar chest or attic. Sometimes people have valuables from yesterday stashed away and don't even realize it, or they are aware of the antiques but don't know how to display, use or care for the antiques.

Homespun fabrics, regardless of how small the piece of fabric may be, can be used as a display in a variety of different ways. Homespun fabrics are tough, you don't have to keep them stashed away, bring them out and use them as part of an eclectic interior design or country Americana decor'.

Use a homespun pillowcase as the back cover for an antique straight-back woven wood chair. Drape the top of the chair with a small homespun fabric remnant. If you have long narrow homespun fabric remnants, use them for table runners, a perfect compliment to a farm house table. Drape smaller homespun fabric remnants in groupings over a wooden towel rack or place a folded stack on an antique sideboard. Usage for these delightful pieces of American history are only limited to your imagination.

Any way you choose to use homespun fabric in your decor', just make sure it is not exposed to direct sunlight. Direct sunlight will fade the color of homespun fabric and there's no way to bring back the original color of the intricate patterned fabric once it is faded.