Japanese Fabric of the Week: Yuwa Umbrellas
Umbrella fabric from Yuwa, spotted in two colorways at Contemporary Cloth (Sondra loves Yoshiko Jinjenzi too!) and in a great red at Bon Bon Atelier.
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Japanese Fabric of the Week: Petit Capuchon
Petite Capuchon is a sweet little near-dot print, offered in four colorways by Matatabi on Etsy.
Echino Fall 2011
There is a kind of dance in the design world over what the next “hip” animal will be. Seeing the Echino Fall 2011 collection, I imagine Etsuko Furuya popping and locking herself into the center ring and doing her classic moves. Birds. Deer. Owls. And everyone thinks, daaaaaamn, some say they’re played out now, but [...]
Yuwa Sweet Grid
Yuwa’s Sweet Grid has become as ubiquitous in my sewing projects as Kei’s Honeycomb Dots. You can stock up at Charm Stitch (aka Mira and Westie on Etsy).
Preview: St. Ives by Sarah Fielke
Open publication – Free publishing – More fabric Sarah Fielke and her husband Damian have put this little book preview together to introduce her second collection for Lecien, called St. Ives. (Click on the image to make it full screen, or else you won’t be able to read it!) It made me more than a [...]
Prints Charming: Daisy Chain
Prints Charming has a new home with Kokka for their volume-produced fabric collections, and I think it suits them perfectly! I say volume-produced because their roots are in hand-screenprinted fabrics — making them as well as teaching others to make them. In fact, Cath and Kirsten are touring the U.S. as we speak, holding embroidery [...]
Nani Iro A/W 2011
Nani Iro Autumn/Winter 2011 fabrics are out, and Miss Matatabi is the first shop I know of to have them! The collection marks the introduction of a new basecloth, cotton viyella, which Matatabi describes as a soft, lightweight cotton twill. Free patterns (in Japanese) for the collection here.
Kokka Luluca
Luluca is a mini-collection from Kokka on their new 61″ wide, lightweight 85% cotton-15% linen blend. This fabric is suitable for apparel, quilts, crafts, and light home dec. Spotted at Purl Soho.
Kokka Cotton Linen
Here’s a sweet little reproduction collection on a cotton-linen blend from Kokka. See the three other colorways on the Seven Islands site. I haven’t seen this in shops yet, have you?
Kei: Geo Style
Not sure when these will be out, but I’m loving this collection of (vintage reproduction?) small-scale geometrics from Kei called Geo Style. There are a few more prints, and all the prints come in several colorways, and you can see them all here.
Chico Hayasaki for Kei Fabric
I didn’t think that Kei Fabric had a website, but thanks to this post from Super Eggplant, I’ve been set straight. (The links on the front page don’t seem to work in Safari — here’s an internal link from which you can access everything though.) I’m excited that I’ll be able to keep better tabs [...]
Black & White Floral by Yuko Furutani
Here’s a simple black & white retro floral, from the Mono Cloth collection by Yuko Furutani for Daiwabo. It also comes in black on white. From Japan Lovely Crafts on Etsy.
Utako Yamada: Karel Capek
Utako Yamada is the Japanese illustrator behind a tea-centric product brand called Karel Capek, named after the Czech author who invented the term “robot”. These are not the first of Yamada’s designs to be put on fabric by Kokka, but it might be the largest and most cohesive collection to date. These fabrics are a [...]
Guest Post: Monica Solorio-Snow on Happy Mochi Yum Yum
Thank you all so, so much for all the kind words and wishes and welcomes for Theo! The sleep deprivation is really starting to set in but otherwise everything is going really well. Thanks for hanging in there with me! Today, I welcome Monica Solorio-Snow of Happy Zombie fame. She’s here to tell us all [...]
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