Painted canvas underfoot: OnlineFabricStore revives the colonial floorcloth
The store's one new tutorial swaps old, harmful recipes for modern supplies, and one viewer remembers seeing a floorcloth at the Emily Dickinson house.
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Make This Historic Craft with Fabric & Paint! | DIY Water-Resistant Canvas Floorcloth
Long before vinyl and laminate, households that could not afford marble or woven carpet painted a piece of canvas and put it on the floor. OnlineFabricStore's only new tutorial of the week brings that idea back in "Make This Historic Craft with Fabric & Paint! | DIY Water-Resistant Canvas Floorcloth."
The description does its homework. It places floorcloths in common use from roughly the 18th century, when they stood in for costlier floors, and notes that some early recipes called for materials now known to be harmful or hard to find. So the method here is a modern one, built from supplies a crafter can actually buy. The video even comes with a short reading list: journal articles on floorcloths in London homes of the 1700s, and nods to other makers who teach the craft.
The small comment section is practical and a little nostalgic. One viewer wants to know whether the plain canvas drop cloths sold for house painting would do the job, and another says she saw something similar on a floor at the Emily Dickinson house.
The floorcloth is moving faster than anything else on the shelf right now, well ahead of a late-summer sleep mask pattern and the second part of a mystery fabric box project. The channel as a whole ran a little above its usual daily pace, while the subscriber count held steady at about 326,000.
Among the craft channels nearest its size, the big weeks belonged to the sewing teachers at WHOLEHEARTED and Clara Threads, while OnlineFabricStore sat toward the quieter end of the group.
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Oh this is so cool! I saw somthing similar on the floor at the Emily Dickinson house recently.
@eilishh2353See it on YouTubeOH, love this idea, love love. Thank you.
@sharonw667See it on YouTubeThis is something I really wanted to try in the early days before computers that help you through the process today. Thank you so much for the tutorial. I did wonder if ordinary canvas at Home Depot used for floor protection during painting would work as well. Have a great week.
@margarertstewart9121See it on YouTube
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Brilliant!
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The videos drawing views on OnlineFabricStore right now
- Channel
- OnlineFabricStore
- Subscribers
- 326,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 130,170
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 990
- Views on its first day
- 585
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Emily Dickinson's home, now a museum, is in which Massachusetts town?
Dickinson was born in Amherst in 1830 and lived most of her life in the family home there, now the Emily Dickinson Museum.