Fabric Vintage Imperfect RARE Lilly Pulitzer double knit fabric Binky designed by Leigh Martin - 79" x 60" (2 yards 7")

79" x 60" (2 yards 7")

Please note: There are areas of imperfect screenprint registry!

Vintage 1960's Lilly Pulitzer polyester double knit fabric Binky by Leigh Martin - Screenprint div of Key West R Handprint Fabrics Inc C. If you know Lilly Pulitzer fabric, you know.

Please take a look at all of the photos. Along both selvage edges the screenprint registry is off and the print does not line up as it should. Down the middle of the fabric, the screenprint registy is OK and the image reads as it should.  Because of the slipped registry in the printing, the maker details on the selvage that would authenticate it as Lee Martin/Key West is not there.  One of the photos show the selvage maker details from a better quality printed piece of fabric of the same design. The better printed fabric is for sale in a separate listing.

In 1959, Lilly Pulitzer became president of her own company, Lilly Pulitzer, Inc. The company's main factory was in Miami, Florida, and the fabrics were produced by the Key West Hand Print Fabrics company in Key West.[2] Over 85% of Pulitzer's prints were designed by Suzie Zuzek, the designer for Key West Hand Prints.[3][4] From the 1960s to the early 1980s, Pulitzer's bright, colorful clothes were very popular, worn by people such as former classmate Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her daughter Caroline Kennedy; and members of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Whitney families.[2] After Jackie was featured in Life wearing one of Lilly's shifts, many preppy ladies followed her lead. The Jacqueline dress is one of Lilly Pulitzer's most successful styles. Lilly later stated that the first shift dress Jackie was photographed in was made of kitchen curtains.[5] By 1984, Lilly closed down the entire clothing operation.