Laundry Basket Patent Canvas Print, Vintage 1893 Utility Room Wall Art

Description

This canvas reproduces an 1893 patent sheet for an oval woven-splint laundry basket, available at 11×14 or 16×20 and finished as gallery-wrapped canvas. As a laundry basket patent canvas print it pairs the basket’s three-quarter view, bentwood rim hoops and looped end handles drawn in full, with a second view of its X-braced bottom and oval rim outline, printed from the original drafting lines rather than a modern redraw.

The checkerboard splint weave and the bentwood rim are the plate’s real subject — flat wooden strips woven tight and bound by bent-wood hoops, with an X-brace strengthening the bottom corner to corner. It’s a small piece of household history, from an era when even a laundry basket’s joinery was worth putting on paper. Hung above a folding table, a shelf, or a laundry cart, it reads as genuine antique household art rather than a themed novelty piece, at home in a farmhouse mudroom or a more streamlined utility room.

Each canvas is made to order in our family-owned shop in NE Ohio, printed with fade-resistant inks and gallery-wrapped over sturdy stretcher bars. At 16×20 it commands a wall as a genuine statement piece for a mudroom or utility room; at 11×14 it settles just as easily onto a smaller hallway wall, with the image wrapped around the edges for a finished, gallery-style look. It’s the kind of vintage laundry basket patent print a serious collector recognizes as a real drafting sheet, not a reprint made to look old.

Hanging is simple: the canvas comes fitted with adhesive strips, so it holds securely without nails or tools and removes cleanly without holes or wall damage, whether the wall is drywall, plaster, or a rental’s fresh paint. Both the 11×14 and 16×20 sizes ship ready to hang, with a gallery-wrapped edge that suits a mudroom already gathering vintage household patent prints.

Choose a size and give a mudroom, utility room, or hallway a genuine piece of 1890s household history, ready to hang the day it arrives.

Every order is made and packed by hand in our family shop in Northeast Ohio. We use premium gallery-wrapped canvas, high-quality frame material and fade-resistant inks for both prints and canvas. Each frame is made to order and shipped same or next business day.

Crossroads Home Decor is built around one simple idea: to Inspire, Encourage, and Connect. If you have any questions about this listing or your order, please send us a message — we’re happy to help. Thank you for supporting a small family business.

— Eric & Susan

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