Collins Stripe: Dusty Blue Fabric by the Yard
All of our fabric and wallpaper is printed just for you, one order at a time. Nothing sits on a shelf waiting, and nothing is mass-produced.
Start with a sample. Tape the wallpaper to the wall, drape the fabric over the chair it's meant for, and see how the color and texture look in morning and evening light. Most decisions settle themselves within a few days.
Once your order arrives, we want you to love it. If you don't, for any reason, let us know. This applies to all retail orders. You have 60 days from delivery to reach out, and we'll reprint your items or you can return them for a refund. Your choice.
To start, email connect@vintagebotanica.com with your order number and a quick note about why you'd like a reprint or return. If something arrived damaged or misprinted, please include photos.
Hung wallpaper and cut fabric are still eligible, as long as the product comes back to us. Every reprint or refund requires the original product to be returned. Return shipping is yours to cover unless the product is defective, in which case we cover it.
Refunds go back to your original payment method within 5 business days after we receive your return. They cover the purchased items plus tax. If the product is defective, we also refund your original shipping.
We currently ship within the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and US territories. We ship to APO and FPO addresses and to PO boxes where the carrier allows it.
- Standard shipping is $9.99 per order for fabric and wallpaper
- Production takes 5 to 10 business days
- Transit takes 2 to 7 business days after your order ships
- Most orders arrive 2 to 3 weeks after you place them
Delivery to Alaska, Hawaii, US territories, and military addresses may take longer than the estimate above.
You'll get tracking by email as soon as your order ships. Orders with multiple items may arrive in more than one package as different products are printed in different locations.
Weather, holidays, and carrier delays happen. If your order is running past the estimate, get in touch and we'll look into it.
Lost or missing packages
If tracking shows delivered but your package isn’t there, check around your delivery spot and with neighbors first. Packages often turn up within a day. If it’s still missing, email us and we’ll open a claim with the carrier. If the carrier confirms the package is lost, we’ll reprint your order or refund it.
Questions
Email us at connect@vintagebotanica.com. We're a small team and we read everything.
- Most orders arrive in 2 to 3 weeks
Fine vertical striations create subtle tonal movement through the deeper bands of Collins Stripe, keeping the stripe from sitting flat or still. Sourced from plain striped silk set into the pleated skirt of an 1857–60 American evening dress at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the design isolates one section of that textile as an 8-inch repeat — bringing the movement and fine grain of the original silk to fabric and wallpaper.
Two soft dusty blues at different depths in inch-wide bands. Fine vertical striations run through the deeper blue, keeping it from reading as a flat fill. The paler blue sits flat. The small tonal difference between them means this reads as blue with structure inside it before it reads as a stripe. A vintage stripe in muted blue.
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The Source
Sometime between 1857 and 1860, Mrs. James Bonner Collins wore a silk evening dress to a White House reception for President James Buchanan.
Set into the pleats of its enormous skirt were lengths of plain striped silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art singles them out in its record of the dress, noting that the vertical stripes helped lift and elongate the silhouette.
They were not the showiest part of the gown. They are the reason this pattern exists.
Up close, the stripe is alive — blue shifting through fine vertical striations, bordered by narrow bands of cream and deeper color. One section of that striped silk is drawn here.
Collins Stripe began as the quiet part of a dress worn to the White House.
The Specifications
- Source: Evening dress, 1857–60, American. Silk. Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2009.300.953a, b, The Costume Institute. Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Beatrice Collins, 1973
- Repeat: 8 in
- References: The Metropolitan Museum of Art object record 2009.300.953a, b
The Cloth
Decor Chenille. A short, dense pile with a velvet-like surface on a firm woven ground. Fine striations catch the light as it moves across the room, deepening the colour. Substantial weight keeps a clean line on upholstery and gives tailored drapery a decisive fall.
- Composition: 100% polyester
- Width: 56 in printable (57 in full)
- Weight: 400 gsm
- For: Upholstery, cushions, headboards, heavy drapery
Cotton Linen. A fine, even linen-cotton weave. Colour prints cleanly while the woven surface remains visible, keeping solid grounds from going flat without softening fine linework. Light in the hand, it falls in narrow, supple folds and filters light rather than blocking it.
- Composition: 55% linen, 45% cotton
- Width: 54 in printable
- Weight: 250 gsm
- For: Upholstery, curtains, table linens, pillows
The Fabric
Decor Chenille
A short, dense pile with a velvet-like surface on a firm woven ground. Fine striations catch the light as it moves across the room, deepening the color. Substantial weight keeps a clean line on upholstery and gives tailored drapery a decisive fall.
- Composition: 100% polyester
- Width: 56 in printable (57 in full)
- Weight: 400 gsm
- For: Upholstery, cushions, headboards, heavy drapery
Cotton Linen
A fine, even linen-cotton weave. Color prints cleanly while the woven surface remains visible, keeping solid grounds from going flat without softening fine linework. Light in the hand, it falls in narrow, supple folds and filters light rather than blocking it.
- Composition: 55% linen, 45% cotton
- Width: 54 in printable
- Weight: 250 gsm
- For: Upholstery, curtains, table linens, pillows
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