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About Vintage New England Stenciling
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In the sketchbook, I detail approximately 40 wall designs, including the exact layout and placement of the folk art patterns and motifs. Using the templates in my sketchbook, I am able to re-create these historic compositions. I make my home in the heart of North Reading, Massachusetts with my husband, Rich, and canine sidekick, Alice. All work shown on this site is the property of Vintage New England Stenciling. This site designed by Valentine Design.
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Vintage New England Stenciling on. Offering online purchase of. The tradition of Moses Eaton, Jr. and Rufus Porter. For my original artwork, I use only the authentic patterns created by Moses Eaton, Jr. These are the same patterns and designs found in his stencil kit and stenciled by him in the country homes, inns, and taverns of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. I stencil these patterns on vintage-inspired linen, giving the artwork a wonderful antique ambiance! The elegant weeping willow motif wa...
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Welcome to Vintage New England Stenciling - fine art based on Early American design
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Ike the itinerant artisans who roamed the New England highways and byways in the early 1800s, I also had my journeys. My travels were in search of the walls that these itinerants so skillfully stenciled with their bright and cheerful folk art motifs and designs…the walls that brought joy to the men and women who lived and toiled on the farms and in the small towns of rural New England. One of my first stops was to the Shelburne Museum of American Folk Art, located in Shelburne, VT. This museum is the...
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Welcome to Vintage New England Stenciling - fine art based on Early American design
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He history of decorative arts in America includes a colorful chapter between the years of 1778 and 1840 when itinerant wall stencilers roamed New England country roads, painting their colorful folk art in homes, inns, and taverns along the way. This period of time in pre-industrial America is known as the federal period. Beautiful flower baskets, graceful willow trees, wildflower sprays and simple vines plump with berries would adorn the walls in a wash of color. The lives of rural New Englanders wer...
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Welcome to Vintage New England Stenciling - fine art based on Early American design
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In federal period New England, between the years 1778 and 1840, the plain plastered walls in hundreds of homes were made cheery and bright with the lively folk art that sprang from the humble paint brushes of travelling artisans. Below, I detail many of the historic New England homes whose walls were stenciled with the iconic patterns attributed to New Hampshire farmer and artisan, Moses Eaton, Jr. Around 1820, Peter Dunn built a tavern in the Kennebec County area once known as “Washington Plantati...
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Welcome to Vintage New England Stenciling - fine art based on Early American design
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N 1977, Margaret and Edward Fabian of West Lebanon, NH began their journey back in time to study and document early stenciled walls in New England. With some assistance from the New Hampshire State Preservation Office and the NH Historical Society, the Fabians completed their journey…seven years and 25,000 miles later! Their travels took them to 460 homes, inns and taverns where they photographed and studied the early American wall stenciling therein. Their research was at times fraught with peril! My Sk...
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Let the artful legacy of 19th century American folk artist, Rufus Porter, and the rich traditions of his early painted walls, fill your home with warmth and charm. Period folk art and unique painted tables. Will inspire YOU to create interiors that are. Cozy, welcoming, and wonderfully reminiscent of a bygone era in New England. Please visit my website www.earlyamericanpainter.com. To learn more about my. Landscape murals in the spirit of Rufus Porter! This site designed by Valentine Design.
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Welcome to Vintage New England Stenciling - fine art based on Early American design
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You might be wondering how we are able to identify the walls stenciled by Moses Eaton, Jr. No written records have ever been uncovered linking various stenciled walls to him. However, the “discovery” of his stencil kit in the 1930’s has helped us to identify the walls that he most likely stenciled. During the years when Janet Waring was researching her book Early American Stencils on Walls and Furniture,. An interesting little circular motif with a multitude of tiny little petals was cut from paper that ...
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Welcome to Vintage New England Stenciling - fine art based on Early American design
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Ldquo;It’s a simple tool,” Mr. Toppan said once, holding a stencil up to the light to see it more. Clearly, “but it’s served the world well through many ages. And there’s nothing fancy. About it, for stenciling is as homespun a craft as weaving. Take what you know, the way. A woman takes the wool from her sheep and spins it for her loom; take the colors God has. Given us in earth and sky and flowering things; then use the good sense that’s your heritage.”. Ldquo;What do you mean by keeping true? After th...
