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Collecting Vintage Fabrics
Textiles can be used in various decoration themes, as collection for their pure beauty, or for displayed as arts. Secondhand shops and flea markets are a treasure trove of vintage quilts, laces, curtains, tea towels, and shawls. Here are some guides for choosing cloths of different colors and pairing prints and patterns.

Collecting Vintage Aprons
Aprons may be seen as artifacts of domestic drudgery, but they have become prized collectibles and the subject of a museum exhibit; on any given day, hundreds of vintage aprons and apron patterns are offered for sale on eBay.

Collecting Travel Souvenirs
Souvenirs can reflect sweet memories of trips you have actually taken or places you have always meant to go. The nostalgic collectible keepsakes can be anything from tablecloths, spoons, salt and pepper shakers, maps, regional magazines, local cookbooks, or old postcards.

Collecting Shaker Style Furnishing
Shakers are known for their clean, simple, and utilitarian designs. The Shakers introduced the pure-practicality style in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Collecting in General
Experts say that most people collect for 5 basic reasons.

Collecting European Enamelware
Enamelware was produced from the 1890s to the 1930s throughout Europe in Belgium, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France. Enamelware is molded at a high heat and then the hand-painted decoration is baked onto the base metal.

Collecting Charms
harm bracelets make wonderful gifts for mothers to hand down instant heirlooms, for daughters to make for their mothers, and for friends to start a life long tradition. As classic accessories, charm bracelets never go out of style. Vintage and antique charms possess not only charming looks but also quality craftsmanship and intriguing history.

Collecting Arts and Crafts from Thailand
Celadon is porcelain ware that was originally made in Thailand during Sukhothai period between the year 1282 and 1323, and was revived again in 1960s. Vases, lamp bases, and a variety of souvenir pieces are good buys. Complete dinner sets are also available.

Collecting Antiques from Thailand
Best buys on antiques in Thailand are Chinese porcelains and furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl, rosewood carving screens, snuff bottles, old Thai paintings, Burmese tapestries, wooden figures.

Collecting Delftware
Delftware has been around since 17th century, a time when flourishing middle-class were eager to furnish their homes with trendy imported porcelain from the Far East.

How to Shop for Treasures at Antique and Collectible Markets
The term antique implies that the item is more than 100 years old. If you are looking for unique one of a kind furnishing for your home, antique or vintage design furniture, jewelry, decorative objects, or artwork, try your nearest antique market.



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Collecting Vintage Fabrics

Textiles can be used in various decoration themes, as collection for their pure beauty, or for displayed as arts. Secondhand shops and flea markets are a treasure trove of vintage quilts, laces, curtains, tea towels, and shawls. Here are some guides for choosing cloths of different colors and pairing prints and patterns.

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Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting Vintage Aprons

Aprons may be seen as artifacts of domestic drudgery, but they have become prized collectibles and the subject of a museum exhibit; on any given day, hundreds of vintage aprons and apron patterns are offered for sale on eBay.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting Travel Souvenirs

Souvenirs can reflect sweet memories of trips you have actually taken or places you have always meant to go. The nostalgic collectible keepsakes can be anything from tablecloths, spoons, salt and pepper shakers, maps, regional magazines, local cookbooks, or old postcards.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting Shaker Style Furnishing

Shakers are known for their clean, simple, and utilitarian designs. The Shakers introduced the pure-practicality style in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting in General

Experts say that most people collect for 5 basic reasons.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting European Enamelware

Enamelware was produced from the 1890s to the 1930s throughout Europe in Belgium, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France. Enamelware is molded at a high heat and then the hand-painted decoration is baked onto the base metal.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting Charms

harm bracelets make wonderful gifts for mothers to hand down instant heirlooms, for daughters to make for their mothers, and for friends to start a life long tradition. As classic accessories, charm bracelets never go out of style. Vintage and antique charms possess not only charming looks but also quality craftsmanship and intriguing history.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting Arts and Crafts from Thailand

Celadon is porcelain ware that was originally made in Thailand during Sukhothai period between the year 1282 and 1323, and was revived again in 1960s. Vases, lamp bases, and a variety of souvenir pieces are good buys. Complete dinner sets are also available.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting Antiques from Thailand

Best buys on antiques in Thailand are Chinese porcelains and furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl, rosewood carving screens, snuff bottles, old Thai paintings, Burmese tapestries, wooden figures.

[Read the full Article]

Author:  | Published: 03-23-2010

Collecting Delftware

Delftware has been around since 17th century, a time when flourishing middle-class were eager to furnish their homes with trendy imported porcelain from the Far East.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 03-23-2010

How to Shop for Treasures at Antique and Collectible Markets

The term antique implies that the item is more than 100 years old. If you are looking for unique one of a kind furnishing for your home, antique or vintage design furniture, jewelry, decorative objects, or artwork, try your nearest antique market.

[Read the full Article]

Author: Sanida | Published: 06-19-2009


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