Vintage Hand Block Printed Folly Cove Designers 'Story and a Half House' Pillow
Vintage Hand Block Printed Folly Cove Designers 'Story and a Half House' Pillow
A vintage, original hand block printed Folly Cove Designers textile, made into a pillow, in the "Story and a Half House" pattern, designed by Peggy Norton, in 1958, printed in cream on mocha cotton (the color of hot chocolate), showing a half cape house with a second story dormer (hence the 'story and a half' name), surrounded by a graphic array of little houses and flanked on each side by a band of larger and smaller little houses. The down filling and coordinating linen backing are new. The condition is bright, fresh and excellent overall. Two available. May be purchased individually or together.
Height: 9” Width: 15 1/2” Depth: 3 1/2”
The Folly Cove Designers were founded in Gloucester, Massachusetts by Virginia Lee Burton, the celebrated children's book author and illustrator who wrote "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel", "The Little House", and "Mabel the Cable Car", among other classics, which have never gone out of print. Production of these textiles ceased in 1968 when Virginia Lee Burton died. Examples of their work are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Cape Ann Museum, in Gloucester, Massachusetts and public and private collections worldwide.