Shabd Simon-Alexander creates tie-dyed textiles inspired by Hubble telescope images. (via Lena Corwin) Birds of Ohio, a vintage textile swatch service, notes the tie-die trend in fashion and has been blogging about dye techniques and traditions. While I’m still not convinced this is a trend I can embrace myself, I love seeing designers take something [...]
Fashion and textile designer Josephine Kimberling shares her favorites from the Fall/Winter 09 runway on her blog. Digital textile printing was featured in many designers’ collections, including Basso & Brooke (two looks above) and Dolce and Gabbana.
All of the sudden lots of people seem to be experimenting with overdyeing and bleaching commercial fabrics. Austin homegirl Malka Dubrawsky of A Stitch in Dye (shop | blog) seriously rocks these techniques. Above: her Twinkle Quilt, featured on a recent cover of Quilting Arts Magazine. There are so many possibilities here. By using resists [...]
To help kick off the new year, I asked fabric sellers, designers, and manufacturers the question: Where is the fabric world (or your corner of it) going in 2009? Today, Harmony Susalla, founder and creative director of HarmonyArt, producer and advocate of organic fabric and textiles: 1. I believe the days of bragging about the [...]
To help kick off the new year, I asked fabric sellers, designers, and manufacturers the question: Where is the fabric world (or your corner of it) going in 2009? Today, three more shop owners share their plans and predictions for the coming year … Kathy of Pink Chalk Fabrics wrote: 2009 is going to bring [...]
To help kick off the new year, I asked fabric sellers, designers, and manufacturers the question: Where is the fabric world (or your corner of it) going in 2009? Today, three shop owners share their plans for the upcoming year: Liza Prior Lucy is the proprietress of Glorious Color, the co-author/engineer of Kaffe Fassett’s quilt [...]
To help kick off the new year, I asked many fabric sellers, designers, and manufacturers the same question: Where is the fabric world (or your corner of it) going in 2009? Today, three designers share their plans for the upcoming year: Birdie Damask, from the Andalucia collection by Patty Young Patty Young, designer of the [...]
To help kick off the new year, I asked many fabric sellers, designers, and manufacturers one question: Where is the fabric world (or your corner of it) going in 2009? Here’s Linda Gaylord, owner of online fabric shop Volksfaden, sharing her wishes for her own corner of the world (Germany) and the fabric industry as [...]
Continuing the 2009 fabric forecast series, here is Vanessa of Retro Age Vintage Fabrics: 1960s bird print on cotton, from Retro Age Vintage Fabrics As mankind enters a new stage of requiring environmental and social renewal and revival the use of vintage fabrics and general old linens is only becoming more and more prevalent. We [...]
To help kick off the new year here on True Up, I asked many fabric sellers, designers, and manufacturers one question: Where is the fabric world (or your corner of it) going in 2009? Over the next week I’ll be posting the responses. Many told me shared news of their upcoming projects, and others talked [...]
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