{ 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 }
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.
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.
EmilyMe is one of the most unusual shops I’ve ever featured on True Up (previous post here). Her fabrics are hand-printed by a family operation in Bangkok that has been in business since the 50s. They print only about 30 yards of each design (taken from their archive of over 1,000 designs) on a cotton [...]
Though Japanese fabrics are now widely available in the U.S. and many other countries, there are still plenty of Japanese fabrics and textiles that rarely-to-never exported outside Japan. Last week I featured the Japanese shop Cotton Crayon, which is full of retro prints I’d never seen elsewhere. I found the link through Ayumi’s great blog [...]
Free to Grow 100% organic cotton collection by Nancy Mims (of Mod Green Pod) for Robert Kaufman has a companion collection of organic solids. We’ll be hearing more from Nancy soon! And speaking of organic, the much anticipated Geo Grand by Daisy Janie has started to arrive in the shops. I know what a journey [...]
I’m utterly captivated by Skinny LaMinx (Heather Moore)’s new print Cloud Birds. Keep an eye on her Etsy shop for yardage and products in seafoam and granny smith.
Polly Danger Notions makes bias tape (and more) from vintage and new fabrics. (via the Fabric Bar blog) Two articles about digital printing trends in fashion — Wall Street Journal, Khaleej Times. Sewing tips for sheer fabrics, on the Fabric.com blog. Superbuzzy just went to Japan, and got to see lots of new stuff that [...]
Joining the ever-growing list of Australian hand-screenprinted fabric designers is FippaFabric near Melbourne. These original designs are printed on a 53″ bamboo-cotton blend with solvent-free colors. I love these modern European folk-inspired designs and hope there’s more to come from this shop.
I love that I can still plug something like “screenprinted fabric” into Etsy on a whim and find a new-to-me designer. The U.K.-based Sarah Waterhouse has been printing fabrics for her range of goods since 2007, but only recently started offering the fabric itself for sale on Etsy and the U.K.-based Folksy. She uses environmentally [...]
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 [...]
Swanky Swell is the San Francisco-based company of Nina Jizhar. She just introduced four new designs, all screenprinted by hand on a 54″ wide medium-to-heavyweight organic cotton blend. Gorgeous!
The Norfolk, England based St Jude’s offers a small but powerful range of artist-designed, hand-screenprinted heavyweight linen fabrics (also available as cushion covers). They just added two designs: Hedgerow by Angie Lewin and Bird Garden by Mark Hearld. At £32-46 per metre (around $50-73) their fabrics are an investment, but I can’t think of many [...]
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