Article: AGED FABRIC HAS NEW APPEAL.(AT HOME)

Byline: Barbara Mayer Associated Press

Most people redecorate when the furniture fades. But a growing number are redecorating because they want the soft, faded look of old fabric.

''Vintage decorating is not for the insecure, because there are no brand names,'' Lyn Peterson of New Rochelle, N.Y., says. ''You mix what you have with what you find.''

Like dented silver and mismatched china, old fabrics have charm. They also are hard to find, expensive and fragile.

Ms. Peterson is an interior designer and president of Motif Designs, a wallpaper and fabric house. For her clients, she will haunt yard sales, flea markets and thrift shops. ...

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