1950s
Vintage needlepoint: Designs & dozens of ideas from the ’50s, ’60s & ’70s
Based on one of the many traditional needlework crafts, these vintage needlepoint designs might just inspire you to get creative in all-new ways!
Based on one of the many traditional needlework crafts, these vintage needlepoint designs might just inspire you to get creative in all-new ways!
Try your hand at these traditional patterns for Americana quilts – the pride of America’s past, and adaptable for many uses today.
Here’s a collection of beautiful classic vintage stencil designs from the ’30s and earlier, along with patterns inspired by Greek, Roman, Persian and other classical designs.
Make bedtime wonderfully wild with these lion and elephant quilted comforters for kids, that can turn nights from hassle to heyday. See how to make them here.
Colorful retro kitchens from the ’60s, when it was an exciting new trend in appliances – an idea that’s been growing ever since the first tame departure from clinical white to pale pastels and subdued browns.
Get some retro decorating advice and see floors from 1950s homes featuring creatively striped and checkerboard flooring patterns with two or more colors.
In the ’70s, makers of these retro floral sheets & bedding styles came up with all kinds of bright, colorful patterns for some major flower power!
Here are six full-color fashion layouts – with 44 different outfits – as published in The Delineator during the summer of 1922!
For more classic fashion from the twenties, check out Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Book #3: Vintage Fashion from the Early 1920s and Vintage Women: Adult
This easy-to-make cardboard dollhouse is a project that can grow with your children!
Cheese doily pattern This neat pattern of D’Oyley (doily) is to be worked in ordinary square crochet, and forms a neat and appropriate ornament for
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? Here’s what ‘they’ thought in 1950 
‘The Outsiders’ movie: About the story & cast, plus see the trailer (1983) 
What did a typical 1950s suburban house look like? Feast your eyes on this fab prefab home built in 1958 
Woodstock: What people said the famous music festival was REALLY like (1969) 
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