HARRY POTTER HOUSEWARES, PART 10:
FABRICS, MORE LINENS, AND WALLPAPER

SPRINGS INDUSTRIES

Springs Industries, Inc., of Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA, is a major North American textile manufacturer and distributor. Springs held the license for the Harry Potter sheet sets sold in the US, as well as raw fabric (for sewers). The first Harry Potter set can be seen on the second half of the first Housewares page. The rest of Springs' items are on this page.

SHEETS

The other sheet sets Springs offered are the "In Flight" set (right); the Hedwig sheet set (below left); and this Sorting Hat flannel set (below right) with bizarre artwork of Harry getting sorted and Hogwarts house crests. The flannel set came with a vinyl storage case for travel purposes. The sheet sets cost about $30 and were usually twin sized (commond kiddie bed size).

FABRIC

Springs also distributed raw cloth to sewing and craft stores in North America. This product is aimed at the person handy with a sewing machine who wants to create a Harry Potter gift for a favorite kid.

Below are swatches of the fabric Springs offered. Sewing stores charged about $5-$7 a yard for this material.

Blue Quidditch players and team positions, and house crests	Harry gets the Snitch
Hedwig and HP logo, same as in sheets above	Blue harlequin (diamond) pattern with Hogwarts house crests
Navy blue with HP logo glittery silver sparkles	Hogwarts fabric panel, to be made into pillow

This fabric panel is offered as a wall hanging or quilt project. It measures about 34 by 45 inches.

WALL DECOR BY PRISS PRINTS

There wasn't much in the way of Harry Potter wall coverings on the market. However, Priss Prints, division of Hedstrom Corporation, Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA, had several designs based on the boy wizard. Priss makes a number of licensed characters on wallpaper borders and large vinyl stickups, such as Winnie the Pooh and Blue of Blue's Clues. The two Harry Potter wallpaper borders both dealt with his prowess at Quidditch and owls. The borders came in standard 15-foot strips and cost about $15. One style used an illustration by Warner Bros. artist Fred Bode, and the other by an anonymous illustrator whose work appeared on other products. The Fred Bode border (left) glows in the dark; a sample of how it looks appears below the borders.

The glow-in-the-dark effect of the first border style

Priss also offered these coordinating plastic "Jumbo Stickups" that continue the Quidditch theme. About $12.