The other week, I was thinking that I should revisit the fun of some bark cloth fabrics. I decided to go flea marketing and didn't have much luck. lots of boxes of boring fabrics or severely damaged goods, and I was starting to get discouraged when I came across a huge plastic bin of fabric odds and ends. The lady who sold them was a bit of a pain, nothing had an official price until I was done shopping, and I had some intuitive reservations on what I should get. I cautiously picked out some small fabric samples to find out how much they would be. Here price for small fragments was $25. So I was a bit disappointed and had to put some of them back. I couldn't justify buying random swatches for that price, even though I am sure they were worth it. As anyone who shops for bark cloth knows, some of the designs can get pretty high priced.
Finally, I put back some odds and ends novelty fabric swatches and just kept a few of the bark cloth pieces at $15. As you can see from these photos the pieces are small, but the designs are very cool. Definately worth picking up for my personal collection.
The Color schematic for this is also interesting and I may end up pulling some color swatch options out of this for an awesome color story for a future design piece. Does anyone out there know much about Bark Cloth? What is the signature design construction for this type of fabric?
I Definately want to research and get some books on the subject in the future and really learn from the pieces of fabric. I have also picked up another patterned Bark Cloth Swatch that I will post photos of at a later Time.
