by | June 30th, 2009

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Inspired by the tiny collection of vintage sewn clothing tags of artist, designer, and professor Kindra Murphy, here’s a slightly-less-tiny collection from all-round the internets. These are the sort of tags that are sewn in on the inside of the article of clothing by the neck. Take notice of the time and effort put into not only the design, but the design as it will be replicated in thread on the tag. Not an easy task! Especially since, believe it or not, they used to do this stuff without the computers and the whatnot!

Vintage Clothing Tags Collection Inspired by Kindra Murphy

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Pictures above are all from the blog of Kindra Murphy: Kindra is Here!

Contributions also from RetroAttic, keiichi Tamura, hihlostudio, SwanDiamondRose, Fontourist*, Flour Clothing, Vasiliisa, Boli & Xie, mod*betty, Sabrosa Vintage, Tigerluxe, and a couple unknowns.

Several of the above contributors have extended collections: check them out!

Undoubtedly kawaii!

  • http://drawn.ca/2009/07/01/vintage-sewn-clothing-tags/ Vintage sewn clothing tags » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

    [...] Enjoy this small collection of vintage sewn clothing tags over at World Famous Design Junkies. There’s something really special about these delicate little designs hiding behind people’s necks: Design in Thread. [...]

  • http://www.rightbrainresource.com/blog/archives/924 Right Brain Resource Blog » Blog Archive » Design in Thread

    [...] The World Famous Design Junkies continue to collect with this Kindra Murphy-inspired set of vintage clothing tags from a list of contributors. [...]

  • http://bunnysmokes.blogspot.com lindsey
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoppin Stephanie Toppin

    If you like Kindra Murphy, you’ll love this flickr group: Clothing Labels – http://www.flickr.com/groups/clothing_labels/pool/

  • http://alessak.com alessak

    I have a Vested Gentress dress! It has an awesome print on it: cartoon dogs wearing tricorn hats, log cabins, canons, and trees. Screenprinted in pink and green on white fabric. Sooooo cool.

  • http://twitter.com/k4v3rn4/statuses/3076967566 k4v3rn4 (Luciano F.)

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