{ African Royale } Take a bit of fellow South Africans Shine Shine, a little Timorous Beasties, and a little bit of Vlisco, and you have something like Fabricnation. That’s not to say they’re derivative, though! Fabricnation partners Jann Cheifitz and Jane Solomon are inspired by the South African landscape and by traditional African motifs [...]
{ Moonlight in the Pines } OK, how have I managed to get this far along without ever hearing of Full Swing Textiles? Full Swing started out as a vintage shop in Newport, Rhode Island in the 1980s. In 1986, they purchased a lot of 16,000 yards of deadstock vintage barkcloth fabric. As that [...]
French online boutique Anna Ka Bazaar (full disclosure: also a True Up sponsor) has a huge selection of new 100% cotton fabrics available for sale, and they ship anywhere in the world. These are beautiful, simple, easy, ultra-wearable geometrics and florals that can be used for all kinds of people projects — personally my favorite [...]
{ Folklore Fish interlock knit for Ikasyr } I found Finnish designer Hanna Ruusulampi through Spoonflower, which led me not only to her amazing online portfolio (see English version of the fabric portfolio here) but also to a treasure trove of Finnish fabric shops. Hanna designed the interlock knit design Folklore Fish for the shop/mini-manufacturer [...]
{ Bows } Sarah Waterhouse has some new prints and new colorways of older prints. She screenprints these designs by hand with waterbed inks on environmentally friendly fabrics like hemp and organic cotton, and offers them by the piece through both Folksy (U.K.) and Etsy. { Pods } { Knitting } { Bird Brolly }
The hand-screenprinters are coming out of the woodwork! Hooray! Chomp Industries is Dana Fehsenfeld’s textile design business in Savannah, Georgia. She draws repeating patterns directly onto vellum and then (I assume) uses these as her positives for burning screens — very cool. She uses natural and sustainable materials for printing. She offers pieces of fabric [...]
Print designer Josi Severson began offering her screenprinted organic textiles about a year ago from her studio Ten14 in Winona, Minnesota. Her prints are striking, monochromatic geometrics in bright colors. In addition to the in-stock fabrics, you can choose to have her designs printed on several different organic basecloths and in your color of choice. [...]
{ Fugi Floral } Designer and teacher Jenny Sauer has been hand-printing her modern home textiles for her brand Three Sheets 2 the Wind since 2004, but only recently has she added fabric yardage to the range of products. Each of these three vintage-inspired designs are printed on white or pebble 100% Irish linen, printed [...]
U.K. screenprinting artist Lu Summers has a new fabric in her shop (Summersville), a clever/simple/cool pattern of different paintbrush strokes. It comes in a few colors including this darker teal. The 10×14″ pieces are great for small projects.
Anna Ka Bazaar is an online shop based in France. They sell beautiful, simple clothing and textiles, toys, and accessories for babies, kids, and also carry gifts for moms. They also sell cotton fabrics by the meter that I’m assuming is custom-made for their product line. It looks like they ship worldwide too!
I feel like I’m betraying Quilt Market by my sudden interest in home dec fabrics, but I don’t think Quilt Market will mind. This eclectic and gorgeous bunch of prints is from the two Thomas Paul collections for Duralee. They are normally only available to the trade but Velocity has them for sale, retailing at [...]
Gorgeous handprinted and digitally printed geometrics from the Brookline, Massachussets-based Yardwork.
kalla Design features the hand-screenprinted fabrics of Hitomi Kimura. She prints out of her home in Ibaraki, Japan (lovely studio pictures on her blog here). This (falling hearts? leaves? petals?) print is available in a rainbow of colors in her Etsy shop.
We have a long holiday weekend here in the U.S. and Canada, so I’m signing off till Tuesday. Enjoy the many sales and have a restful three days! What are your plans? I leave you with these irresistible graph paper fabrics (plain linen/cotton, laminated) from Nothing Elegant on Etsy. (via the Crafts Dept.)
In addition to a range of textiles, homeware, and accessories (those rugs just kill me), Melboune-based designer Nicola Cerini also offers fabric by the meter. She further proves that Australia kicks the rest of the world’s butt in small independent textile design. Designs are printed on a wide selection of natural and synthetic basecloths ranging [...]
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