{ Bulbous } These fabrics by legendary post-war Swedish designer Stig Lindberg are produced by Ljungbergs and are available for purchase directly from the Ljungbergs webshop, and from Funkis in Australia. They are a heavyweight cotton-linen blend and are about 60″ (150cm) wide. { Fruktlåda } { Melodi } { Tallyho }
Swedish company Bantie been in business since 2007 producing original, patterned textiles for the home and contract markets. Their designs, Ulrika Gyllstad and Emma von Brömssen, are printed on fabrics for all kinds of home decor applications, from cotton canvas and sateen to modal to Trevira CS voile (for sheer curtains). You can purchase fabric [...]
{ Designs by Lucienne Day. L-R: Graphica, Riga, Spectators, Trio. } The Centre for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art offers a commercial digital textile printing service, and, under the name Classic Textiles, reproduces designs from some of the U.K.’s most prominent and influential textile designers. Lucienne Day herself selected the 12 designs [...]
Unika Vaev, meaning “unique weave” in Danish, was originally a mill in Denmark but changed hands to the American ICF Group in the 1970s. Simple woven geometric patterns and textures characterize their upholstery fabrics. Though prints and large-scale woven patterns tend to catch our eyes more, personally I’m more into beautiful, durable, retro-feeling textures for [...]
Here is just a small sampling of some of the amazing textiles world-renowned designer Tord Boontje has created for Danish interior fabrics company Kvadrat. Kvadrat is partnered with U.S. company Maharam, who also distributes these fabrics. Above, Nectar, a polyester burnout curtain fabric designed by Boontje in 2005. The design was created by experimental software [...]
Organic interior fabric and wallpaper company Mod Green Pod has just introduced a special edition of their Anticipate design for 2011. It is a 54″ wide, upholstery weight, organic cotton canvas that is grown, woven, and printed in the United States (with nine colors, no less). See more on the mgp blog.
We already have Japanese Fabric of the Week on Mondays, and Digital Fabric of the Week on Thursdays … I am thinking that, for the new year, each weekday needs its own type of fabric-of-the-week feature. So I’m making Wednesdays Home Dec day, which will give me the opportunity to cover those high-end fabrics that [...]
I didn’t find out what was up with the similar names, but the Seven Islands (the U.S. distributors of Kokka and other Japanese textile brands) booth was also showing a high-end, multi-purpose (but home-dec leaning) collection called Cocca, from a Tokyo-based shop/brand of the same name. The pictures don’t really capture the prints’ scale or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
El Caminos in the West Wish You Were Here is a collaboration of husband-and-wife team Fiona and Ben O’Brien. On the side of their commissioned illustration and design work they sell a collection of art prints, cushions, fabric, and wallpaper (the latter produced through Studio Nommo). Feelgood by Numbers The fabrics are digitally printed on [...]
Cariad Red Jenny Lee-Katz is a Pennsylvania-based textile designer who was born in Wales. She started out hand-screenprinting her designs but worried about disposal of the chemicals and dyes used in the process. So she turned to digital printing, which allows the use of eco-friendly pigment dyes and virtually eliminates waste. She currently has two [...]
I am a huge fan of the U.K. company Sukie‘s textiles and paper goods (I just received their new Iron-On Craft Pad today). So I was excited to hear that in just a couple weeks they will have fabric available for purchase for the first time. The three designs were screenprinted in England on a [...]
Meet Me at Mike’s is having a week of Australian Fabric Designers, with two interviews each day. I thought I knew of all the indie Australian fabric designers, but Surface Art was new to me — and that’s not one anyone should be missing. Surface Art is owned and run by Moyra Proudfoot. The range [...]
British company Rapture and Wright has been in operation since 2002. The pair Rebecca Aird and Peter Thwaites hand-screenprint their own designs on linen and silk woven in the UK. Prices range from £60-70 per meter. They also offer handprinted wallpaper and finished home accessories. See distributors here.
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