Bookhou is a small, family business in Toronto, Canada emphasizing slow design. Arounna Khounnoraj designs the textiles and she has a new collection available now, that was created and hand-screenprinted with her studio assistant. Each of these beautiful prints is available in several colorways. They are online now and also at the brick & mortar [...]
Canadian artist/designer Vivian Ducas, aka C’est La Viv, has met with some wonderful successes in the past year — one of her designs was included dailycandy.com’s trends for 2012 and featured on the Today Show! She has added several beautiful collections and individual prints to Spoonflower since I last checked in — Zig Zag combines [...]
Mad About Patchwork is a longtime sponsor of True Up, and I was happy to get to know owner Pamela better via my Meet the Sponsors series. MAP is one of the few online shops based in Canada. BUT WAIT! Don’t tune out if you live outside of Canada — Pamela carries lots of stuff [...]
{ Mer Shell Tana Lawn by Liberty of London } Hyggeligt stands out not only for its unusual name — which you’ll learn about below — but for its colorful, sophisticated, focused inventory. Chantal Lynch is the proprietress of this Canadian brick-and-mortar shop, which is located in the Richmond Row District in London, Ontario. The [...]
Human Element by Billie Davids Camelot Cottons is a Montreal based company, repped by E.E. Schenck here in the States (E.E. Schenck reps a bunch of smaller companies and takes up a HUGE amount of real estate at market). Camelot specializes in paintings turned fabric prints. The scale of the Earth Elements collection was impressive. [...]
Repeat features hand printed fabrics and notions made by Arounna Khounnoraj (of Bookhou, which has even more lovely textiles) and Roisin Fagan (of Bespoke Uprising — ditto). Their latest design is Laundry Line — looks like it’s not on their website yet, but it is available through their Etsy shop. Keep an eye on their [...]
FLUF is a little two-person operation out of Toronto, Canada that produces its own sustainable fabrics. They started out in 2005 making pillows and eventually expanded to include other products. The fabrics are only sold wholesale (you can buy them online from lovely True Up sponsor Plum Project Studio) but they do offer their pillows, [...]
I made a beeline for the Camelot Cottons booth because I saw they had a line of Mr Men and Little Miss licensed fabric. Turns out that the artwork is still being finalized so I don’t have anything to show you, but Camelot has a lot of other interesting things happening — they’re definitely a [...]
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