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 [...]
{ Through Streets } Maria in Sydney, Australia handprints fabrics under the name Blueberry Ash. The linen and cotton fabrics are printed with water-based inks and sold on Etsy to a worldwide audience. Maria is also involved with the company Digital Fabrics, which I will have to add to the list of digital print bureaus! [...]
{ Beasties } Iconic British textile designer Celia Birtwell has a new collaboration with Uniqlo, so you can own and wear some of her classic prints at a great value. For the occasion I thought I’d share some of the fabrics available from her website. They are hand-screenprinted onto heavyweight linen (some on cotton). It’s [...]
Sister Parish was a interior designer and socialite famous in the 60s and on for her work on the Kennedy White House and for her take on the English country house look. I’m deducing that she was at least partially responsible for the quilt revival of the 70s. Today, her granddaughter Susan Bartlett Crater, and Parish’s onetime apprentice Libby Cameron, [...]
In the recent post on Banksia Bloom by Saffron Craig, Rebecca mentioned Utopia Goods as another textile producer featuring Australian flora and fauna in their designs. Flowering Gum, above, “features Bruce [Slorach]’s illustrated honeyeater birds feasting on the nectar of a feathered flowering gum nut. If you look closely, there are different varieties of honeyeaters on the backdrop of a subtle organic polka [...]
Leeann Fanny offers her hand screen printed fabrics on Etsy through her shop Little House Martin. She lives and works in Suffolk, U.K., also home to Ms. Lu Summers, through whom I learned of her! The fabrics are printed by the panel, on natural quilting weight cotton. Keep up with her on her blog here. [...]
Celina Mancurti is an Argentinian textile designer who now lives in Tampa, Florida. She is the designer of this eco-friendly linen collection that includes fabric yardage and fat quarters, and products sewn with them such as aprons, tea towels, and table runners. She screenprints her creations by hand onto 100% linen with water-based inks. Her [...]
Kelani Fabric Obsession in Australia commissioned these sweet prints from designer Tara Davy. Her first prints for the Kelani were on woven cotton and jersey knit, these are hand-printed on on a 55-56″ (140cm) wide 55% linen / 45% cotton blend. It’s cute how both have a swoopy thing going on, but two totally different [...]
Makumo fabric panels and goods are hand-screenprinted by Japanese artisan Miki Fukuyama. These designs just blow me away, as does her screen printing skill (two+ colors is hard!). Her style is unique, beautiful, and edgy but not alienating. I like how some of the conversational designs are layered in black over different background patterns (see Animal [...]
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