Adirondack Textiles
ADIRONDACK STYLE
Evoking rusticity and relaxation through simple and elegant designs, vintage Adirondack furniture originated in the Adirondack Mountains of northeastern New York. The most famous piece is the Adirondack chair, which dates to 1903.
With its ample armrests and sturdy but comfortable slanted seat, the reclined Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee for his own country home. The postwar golden age of modern patio and garden furniture production — led by the likes of Brown Jordan, Knoll, Salterini and Woodard — was decades away at the time, and there were few pieces of furniture specifically created for outdoor use.
Lee, a Massachusetts-born Harvard graduate raised in a wealthy family, was no furniture designer. He merely needed a durable, rugged chair for afternoons in the sun while he was vacationing on Lake Champlain in Westport, New York, in the summer. The amateur woodworker used just one wooden plank cut into 11 segments that were jointed together for his now-legendary seat, which is said to have been made of hemlock, hickory or basswood.
The story of the Adirondack chair continues with Lee’s friend, carpenter Harry Bunnell, covertly patenting the chair and going on to produce it as the Westport Plank chair for a growing audience over the next two decades. Over a century later, the Adirondack chair has gone through several design evolutions while maintaining its popularity and basic form with slats of wood such as pine offering comfort both indoors and out.
The widespread demand for rustic Adirondack outdoor furniture was bolstered by the turn-of-the-century establishment of rural escapes to treat diseases such as tuberculosis. The low-slung Adirondack chair became common in these places of convalescence, allowing patients to recline and breathe in the country air. It also complemented the camp-style architecture that was prevalent in the Adirondacks for recreation as well as restoration, where rugged furniture with exposed wood and minimal carving filled interiors and wide porches.
Today, Adirondack chairs are made in a range of materials and can be found around the world, from ski resorts to lakeside piers, their durability and classic form making them an enduring favorite for spending time in nature.
Find vintage Adirondack chairs, benches, lounge chairs, decorative objects, folk art and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Adirondack
Navajo Yei Indian Weaving Pillows-Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Yei Navajo Indian weaving pillows with black wool backing in fine condition.The inserts are down & feather fill.Sold as a pair.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Antique Holmes County Ohio Amish Plain Crib Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique Holmes County Ohio Amish plain crib quilt with double inner borders.This purple crib quilt has black cotton sateen inner borders & a black sateen binding.The quilting is very...
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Navajo Indian Eye Dazzler Weaving Pillows -Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early Navajo Weaving eye dazzler pillows with leather backings and down & feather fill.Sold as a pair.
Category
1930s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Leather, Wool
Zabihi Collection Turkish Rug Pillow
Located in New York, NY
Pillow made from a vintage Turkish rug in reds and blues
17'' x 18''
Category
20th Century Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Foam
Set of Three Navajo Woven Delectable Mountains Jigsaw Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of Three Wool Navajo bolster pillows in a delectable mountain jigsaw pattern with beautiful colors.
The Golden linen backing is a thick linen/ the interior of the pillows are c...
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Linen
Mexican Indian Weaving Pillows, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These fine Mexican Indian weaving pillows are in fine condition with black cotton linen backings. The inserts are down & feather fill.
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Navajo Weaving Pillows Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Navajo Weaving Pillows. Custom made with antique Navajo weaving and a black linen backing. Pillows are made with zippers for cleaning an...
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Eye Dazzler Navajo Indian Weaving Bolster Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Navajo Indian Weaving eye dazzler pillows (Pair) Beautiful Colors of Black, White, Red, Taupe. This pillow is definitely and eye catcher. Feather and down insert and zippered casing.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Linen
Navajo Indian Weaving Eye Dazzler Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Navajo Indian weaving eye dazzler bolster pillow.The backing is a red linen and insert is down & feather fill.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
19th C Navajo Indian Weaving Storm Pattern Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C amazing Navajo Indian weaving bolster large pillow in the storm pattern. The backing is in homespun linen and down & feather fill.
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Large Navajo Weaving Pillows-Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These amazing eye dazzlers Navajo Indian weaving bolster pillows are a matching pair from one weaving.The condition is very good and sold as a pair.Minor age spots but not bad in the...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
20Thc Navajo Indian Weaving Pillow W/ Leather Back
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late but great Navajo Indian weaving pillow has a leather backing and down & feather fill.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Leather, Wool
19th C Mennonite Bars Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C Mennonite Piece bars quilt from Lancaster County PA.
Category
19th Century North American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Mexican Indian Wool Serape Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
large Wool Mexican Serape pastel color pillow. This Mexican weaving pillow has similar tones to the pair also listed, a light toned color pallet...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Navajo Indian Weaving Bolster Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Navajo Indian weaving bolster pillow in a twisted post pattern.The backing is in a cotton linen.The insert is down & feather fill.
Category
1920s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
19th Century Brown and Blue Ticking Pillows, 3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These three ticking pillows are in brown and blue wide stripe ticking with cream ground. Collection of Three pillows.
Pair measures: 22 x 22
single measures: 20 x 20.
Category
19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Linen
19th Century Lady of the Lake Quilt with Chintz Border
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century fine pieced lady of the lake quilt with chintz border in really good condition. This is a new England quilt there is minor wear on the...
Category
19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Early Wool German-Town Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great modernistic German-Town pillow. Deep grays and a color pallet that give off a great sense of color and design. A beige center eye with red border. Beautiful red striped give mo...
Category
1920s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Four 19th Century Red and White Stripe Ticking Pillows, Collection of Four
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These 19th century candy stripe ticking pillows have a cream cotton linen backing. They are down and feather fill. Two pairs of pillows.
Category
19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Linen
Navajo Flame Stitch Wool Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wool Navajo Flame Stitch Pattern pillow with red linen backing. Great color in a flame pattern. Beautiful oranges and reds, whites and browns. Wonderful design.
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Linen
Zabihi Collection Vintage Small Turkish Rug
Located in New York, NY
Mini size mid 20th century Turkish Anatolian rug
Measures: 1'6'' x 2'10''
Category
Mid-20th Century Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Mexican Indian Weaving Eye Dazzler Bolster
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mexican Indian weaving bolster eye dazzle pillow in indigo blues and cream back round.The backing is in natural linen & down & feather.
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Mid Century Wool Tree of Life Bird Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid 2othc Hand made wool trees of life bird pillow. This vintage fabric has been repurposed into a beautiful pillow. The color full bird protecting the family tree from all harm. Dif...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection Lumbar Turkish Rug Pillow
Located in New York, NY
Lumbar size pillow made from a vintage Turkish rug.
14'' x 21''
Category
20th Century Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Foam, Cotton
20thc Navajo Weaving Bolster Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing Navajo Indian weaving bolster pillow in very good condition. The backing is in black linen. The insert is down & feather fill.
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Vintage Double Sided Ticking Pillows-Collection of Three
Located in Los Angeles, CA
20Thc Red & blue hand pieced ticking pillows,collection of three pillows.These pillows are down & feather fill.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Pair of Navajo Geese Pattern Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful beige background with multi color geese pattern pillow. This pillow is a great reminder if the what can be when showing reds black and neutra...
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Pair of Striped Navajo Weaving Pillows with Checker Corner Pattern
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Striped Navajo Weaving Pillows with Checker Corner Pattern. Deep red and blacks stripes provide a deep color contrast. The white background allows for the red and black color...
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Mini Pieced Diamond in a Square YoYo Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mini pieced diamond in a square yoyo quilt. The condition is very good and it is a large quilt.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
19th Century Postage Stamp Saw Tooth Diamond Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century postage stamp saw tooth diamond in a square and surround postage stamp ground. The center block is turkey red.
Category
19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
19thc Geometric Blue & White W/ Arrows & One Patch Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a fun geometric blue & white quilt with arrows and square surround. The condition is very good.
Category
1870s American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
19Thc Early Navajo Indian Weaving Pillows-Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc Early Navajo Indian Weaving pillows in great condition.The backings are in a soft chenile linen.The inserts are down & feather inserts.
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Pair of Mexican Indian Weaving Striped Elongated Kidney Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elongated Mexican American weaving pillows with wonderful blue white and gray colors. The back is made from a vintage linen. This elongated pillow ha...
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Linen
Navajo Indian Weaving Eye Dazzler Pillows, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Navajo Indian Weaving Eye Dazzler pillows - pair. Camel suede backing and zippered case. Feather and down inserts.
15 x 15
15 x 16.
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Early 20Thc Mexican Indian Weaving Pillows-Collection 4
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Collection of four Mexican Indian striped weaving pillows. Selling as a group of four.Down & feather fill. The backings are in black linen fabric.
Category
1930s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
19th Century Postage Stamp Doll Quilt, Rectangular Mounted
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19th century postage stamp framed doll quilt is in fine condition and is sewn on linen stretcher.
Category
19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
19th Century Split Bars Quilt from Pennsylvania
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine split bars quilt was made in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and is from the third quarter of the 19th century. It is quite rare the colors on a chocolate brown ground. It is in very good condition. These quilts were typically made in that are in Pennsylvania. It is a Mennonite quilt...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Pair of Navajo Chinle Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Navajo Chinle pillows with small row of Eye dazzlers in a horizontal pattern. Beautiful colors with a matching linen backing.
Category
1930s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Set of Three Navajo Eye Dazzler Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wool Navajo weaving made into a pillow with crocodile leather backing. the inserts are down and feather filled for comfort and are hypoallergenic.
The largest pillow measures
27 x ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Leather, Wool
19Thc Fine Baskets of Chips Red & White Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing baskets of chips quilt is in a cherry red & white in very good condition. This quilt was found in Ohio and it is in fine condition.
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Navajo Indian Weaving Pillows -Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Navajo Indian weaving pillows in fine condition with cotton linen backing.The inserts are down & feather filled. Sold as a pair.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Rag Rug Bolster Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old wonderful reg rug made into pillows. Denim rag rug with linen backing to match. Wonderful age to the rag rug. Sold in pairs,
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
1940s Pictorial Pillow Of Woman stretching Arms
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful pictorial pillow of woman stretching out her arms. A sense of comfort is given when viewing this pillow. An eternal and undying sense of mothers love. Wonderful colors that...
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
American Indian- Navajo Weaving Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early Hand woven Navajo Indian weaving in soft mohair or lambs wool weaving. This pillow has such a soft feeling and has a soft suede leather backing. Fantastic !!!
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
20thc Yei Indian Weaving Bolster Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
20Thc Native American Yei Indian weaving bolster pillow. The backing is in cotton linen homespun fabric. The insert is down & feather fill.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Set of Three Navajo Jigsaw Kidney pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great set of three natural earth tone colored kidney pillows. Each pillows measures the same in this set. The large jigsaw pattern on each was chosen to specifically match each other...
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Pair of Red And White Navajo Chevron Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Red and white Navajo chevron pillows with gray stripes. This beautiful pair of pillows has great color in a subtle way. The chevrons are in a four patte...
Category
1930s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Linen
Set of Three German Town Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great collection of German Town pillows. These pillows are chosen and put together because of the way the weave has been woven. German town weaving's are some of the tightest woven f...
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Navajo Indian Weaving Saddle Blanket Pillows, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These black and white Indian weaving pillows are in great condition and sold as a pair. The backs are in black cotton linen.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Linen
Amish Ohio Baskets Crib Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ohio Amish baskets in multi colors. The quilting is very fine. The condition is very good.
Category
1940s American Vintage Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Vintage States Pendent Wool Felt Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This original wool pendant states pillow is all hand sewn like a handmade quilt. The detail is amazing and all the fringe is in very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Navajo Indian Weaving Pillows, Collection of Three Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These hand woven original Navajo Indian weaving pillows are in amazing condition.One has a suede/leather backing and others are in linen backing.Th...
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Navajo Indian Weaving Geometric Bolster Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This bolster pillow is 1 of 2 pillows that are on our site. The condition of this bolster is very good. The backing is brown cotton linen.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Long Bolster Size Turkish Jajim Pillow
Located in New York, NY
Pillow made from a Turkish flat-weave jajim .
Measures: 13'' x 38''.
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Foam
19Thc Paisley Bandana Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc Cotton paisley pillow with cotton linen backing in pristine condition.The inserts are down & feather fill.
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Antique Quilt-Tiny Pieced Postage Stamp Chain
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine tiny pieced postage stamp chain quilt is in pristine condition. This quilt is from the 1930s and made from old calico dress prints.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Amish Fan Quilt from Ohio, 1950s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic Ohio Amish fan Quilt from the 1950s. This has fantastic quilting and fantastic graphics.
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Navajo Indian Weaving Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This American Navajo Indian weaving saddle blanket was made into a large bolster pillow. This amazing birds in flight pattern is fantastic.
The ...
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Textiles
Materials
Wool
Adirondack textiles for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Adirondack textiles for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage textiles created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include folk art, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, cotton and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Adirondack textiles made in a specific country, there are North America, and United States pieces for sale on 1stDibs. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for textiles differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $780 and tops out at $6,000 while the average work can sell for $3,390.