Upcoming Events

HUGE Special Sale on Overruns!
Call for details - 518-284-2729

 

 

Rabbit Goody Announces Summer Classes at Thistle Hill

Our summer classes are over, but watch for more this fall!
Above, Rabbit and students in Weaving Historic Reproductions class

And please join us for:

Historical Workshops at Eastfield Village:
A Peek Into the Parlor 1780-1860
August 2-4, 2010
Eastfield Village
Nassau, NY

An historical look at where Americans spent their social time, covering architecture, lighting, decorating, heating, eating, furishings, and drapery from 1780 to 1860. Seminars at Eastfield are a summer tradition, and if you've never been to one, you owe it to yourself to sign up! They bring together enthusiasts in historic preservation, antiques, early crafts and trades, museum professionals, collectors, dealers--a great variety of people who want to study intensively together for a few days in an incredible setting: a collection of historic buildings and artifacts placed in a village setting where traditional trades are still practiced.
Teaching this workshop are experts on furniture, ceramics, textiles, lighting, decorative arts, fine arts, heating, and architecture.
Rabbit Goody will speak on Textiles as Furnishings in Parlors and Sitting Rooms 1780 to 1860. She will discuss how drapery, carpet, and upholstery create the soft features that help define a room and its uses. As innovation in the textile industry changed, so did the fabrics used to differentiate the parlor and sitting room from bed chambers, sick rooms, and nurseries. This 80 year span saw great changes in the availability of drapery, carpet, and upholstery.
Thistle Hill's Business Manager Jill Maney, together with her husband Jonathan Maney, will speak on All Manner of Fancy Goods: Decorative Arts in Parlors 1780 to 1860.
For information or to register contact Eastfield at 518-766-2422 or email Donald Carpentier at dcsapottery1@fairpoint.net

 

Textile Weekend at Old Sturbridge Village
August 14-15, 2010
Sturbridge, MA

Thistle Hill Weavers will be at Old Sturbridge Village for this fun celebration of all things textile.  Our owner, Rabbit Goody, will speak on the meticulous reproduction of a historic Venetian carpet in OSV's collection that we made for the Salem Towne House.  There will also be a Textile ID day, when you can bring textile treasures to Rabbit for identification and analysis, and a full show booth set up full of Thistle Hill's luxurious textiles, including bed hangings, carpet, window treatments, trims, fabrics, tassels, table runners, hand towels, and more!  For more information contact OSV at 800-733-1830 or visit www.osv.org