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This poppy pattern is taken from Plate XXXVII in Christopher Dresser's "Studies in Design", c. 1875.  The description of the plate is "Sheet of powerdings, adapted for wall-ornaments."  Well, off to the dictionary to learn that powderings are (in this context) "Decoration by means of numerous small figures, usually the same figure often repeated."  We originally turned this motif into a stencil for a wall ornament for a client's kitchen.  

Rufus Porter (1792-1884] was an artist, musician, teacher, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Porter began his artistic life as a decorative painter. He moved on to portraits and later began painting the murals that made him famous. He painted what he knew — landscapes depicting the farms around Bridgton, Maine, his childhood home, and seaport scenes of Portland, Maine, where he lived and studied as a young man.  His style is very recognizable.

This design for this floorcloth is based on a 5" x 7" watercolor provided by an interior designer.  The lovely, little watercolor depicts an abstract sky.  

This is the first Dresser pattern we worked with, clearly seeing how it could be adapted to stencils and how great it would be for a custom floorcloth design. We loved the original Dresser palette and the first piece we made with the pattern, a rather complicated U-Shaped design, employed this colorway. Several additional colorways have been explored as have different shapes, all working beautifully in this versatile design.

This pattern is from The Stencil Library, a great source for a wide variety of stencils in varying styles.  We choose this one for its arts & crafts bent and look forward to trying it with different placements of the tiles and assorted palettes.

This floorcloth is in our inventory and available for immediate shipment.

This floorcloth is based on an ornate floral damask design that creates a trellis effect.  The border is an organic leaf and berry motif, deliberately given a worn effect, and the corners are hand-painted fruits based on carvings on the buffet in the room where this floorcloth resides. 

This pattern is based on a series of classic European stencils from the early 1900s designed for ceilings.  Great ceiling designs are often great rug designs.  The scrolling pattern and floral motifs are lovely and the set includes a center medallion, corners, and side stencils all incorporating the same decorative elements. 

This floorcloth is based on another terrific stencil from The Stencil Library.  Is it Arts & Crafts or does it have more of a 70s vibe?  It is somehow both organic and stylized simultaneously.   The undulating vines, the leaves, the berries...simple, yet complex.  For us, at least, it is an enigma.

This lovely all-over floral pattern that is organic in its execution, creating a carpet of blooms, buds, and leaves.

This pattern is based on a tin ceiling design from the Wunderlich Ceiling Company's 1912 catalog.  Wunderlich was an Australian company that produced a fabulous array of tin ceiling designs, many of which are adaptable to rug design.  The examples of floorcloths shown here always use the central element of the wonderfully misshapen squares and art nouveau floral design, and then all or some portion of the other elements, depending on the size and shape of the floorcloth. 

This is a rare pure geometric pattern from Christopher Dresser.   It is another design that just begs to be used as a floorcloth pattern.  We more or less retained the original palette for our first effort on this one because the Dresser palette is just so good.  We look forward to exploring many palettes with this great design.