whiptips: can I reproduce vintage fabrics while still respecting copyright?
Posted November 21st, 2006 by
kath_red
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Rebecca from in the bakery writes in with a good question about reproducing vintage fabrics.
I’m one of those fabric hounds. Aren’t we all? Sometimes I do come across gorgeous vintage fabric in the form of tableclothes or pillowshams and it seems a shame that once I cut it up that’s about all there is. How can one go about reprocuding vintage fabric while still respecting copyright? The fabric I find normally doesn’t have any kind of indentifiying features and I have no idea where to start.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:13 am
If we are talkign crochet my whole business is based on repairing and restoring vintage crochet , tatting, needle point finishing and things like that. Most of these items are well before the 1950’s and are out of copy write. Also if you reverse engeneer an item from a photo where you can not actually count the stitches then you have the same look as the original but the pattern is yours since you are not able to verify the exact number of stitches the original had.
Sunshine
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com
November 21st, 2006 at 5:13 pm
One of many good sources of info about copyright:
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
Tough, though, if you can’t find any identifying marks.
November 21st, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Amy Butler just posted some information on this at Quilter’s Buzz not too long ago