Daily Swatch: Leaves
Pink, double pink, blue, and green leaves design, from the feedsack collection of Just-a-mere on Flickr.
Archive for September 2009
Liberty Art Collection
Cranford by Grayson Perry This year Liberty of London introduced its new Art Collection, “fusing the compelling work of six established British artists with the innovative creations from the Liberty Design Studio.” The current artists are Grayson Perry, Paul Morrison, Mike McInnerney, Michael Angove, Anj Smith, and Simon Hart. The designs are printed on their [...]
Decor8 Goes to Stoffmarkt
Holly at Decor8 takes us along with her Stoffmarkt Holland‘s stop in Hannover, Germany. She encourages the U.S. to pick up on this idea of a traveling fabric market — I second that motion! (image: holly becker for decor8)
Batik
COLOURLovers recently featured this extensive look at batik which included the video above. The processes shown here look nothing like what I imagined, and now I’m eager to try them out.
High As a Kite Fabric
It seems like every time I visit the Michael Miller site there is some new irresistible mini-collection. This print called High As a Kite is available in shops now. It coordinates with some of their stock dot and stripe designs. So sweet! And so violating my no-new-novelty-prints-on-white rule. Damn!
Daily Swatch: Leaves
The atomic 50s design era sure liked leaves. Leafy is from iheartlinen (aka Rashida)’s stash on Flickr.
Meet the Sponsors/Giveaway: Quilted Treasures
Two of the many tempting fat quarter bundles found at the Quilted Treasures Etsy shop: Cosmo Cricket’s Hey Sugar (left) and for-some-reason-hard-to-find-as-precut-packs Kona Cotton Solids (right) I would love to see more brick & mortar shops doing things the way Quilted Treasures does: catering to all tastes with a wide and well-thought-out inventory, and maintaining [...]
Preview: Flora & Fauna by Patty Young
Hot on the heels of Mezzanine, Patty Young just unveiled her next collection Flora & Fauna for Michael Miller Fabrics. Shown above is just one of the four colorways. As she wrote, it’s a departure from her previous two collections — it is much more organic, and the closest she’s ever gotten to conversational prints [...]
Textile Stew: Tea Towel Edition
ah-yi shares a linen tea towel bought at a flea market teapot tea towels from kris’s color stripes Collection tea towel by Anna of colour + sound — look for them in the future at her Etsy shop, madebyanna
Daily Swatch: Leaves
Wow. Lots of fantastic contributions to the True Up Flickr Pool for the leaf and tree theme! This atomic leaf design in yellow, black, and white comes to us from Donna Flower.
Show Us Your Stash: Feels Like Fall
Bring on the falling leaves and the pumpkins and the cocoa. A great stack of autumn colors from Ashley of Filminthefridge on Flickr. She writes on her blog about the fall quilt it’s becoming — boy, what a perfect combination. A nice pair of vintage prints in autumn colors from Kimmymade on Flickr. Her thoughts [...]
Twine Organic Fabrics
Twine Fabrics is a textile design company based in Cape Town, South Africa, putting out an assortment of designs on a blended basecloth of 55% hemp and 45% certified organic cotton. Twine is run by old friends Cara Rosa and Chloe Townsend, designers who share a love of “all things natural, quirky, and fresh.” Their [...]
Daily Swatch: Leaves
Vintage leaves hankie from catslye on Flickr. Happy autumn, northern hemisphere!
Daily Swatch: Leaves
The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. Please add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. Hooray, Fall is here tomorrow! Oh how I’ve been waiting for it. Let’s celebrate with a couple weeks of leaves and trees. The [...]
Japanese Fabric of the Week: New Echino
Thanks to Kelly at Superbuzzy, we’re getting a preview of the newest Echino fabrics by designer Etsuko Furuya. Though she’s not certain, Kelly assumes they will be printed on the traditional Echino cotton-linen blend — and maybe the oilcloths with make a comeback. What do you think? We’ll be sure to get more information at [...]
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