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Shown with the “Forest Maiden” tapestry, Paul Freeman once kept a 19th-century New England farmhouse warm during a cold winter by ironing his way through a large lot of vintage napkins and table linens.

- Mary Ellen Polson

He had been buying and selling antique textiles for more than 15 years when Paul Freeman began toying with the idea of reproducing Arts & Crafts textiles. A regular attendee at the Arts & Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, Paul explains that “people used to come in looking for textiles suitable for old Stickley pieces and so on.”