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.
Homes Teepee Erica Wakerly is a surface designer who seems to be best known for wallpaper, but she has a small collection of fabric too. Her fabrics are available on a variety of weights of cotton base cloth, and can be ordered directly from her with a few weeks lead time. Her wallpaper 02 collection [...]
Digital Iguana Bird Branch In addition to wallpaper and window shades, Glasgow textile studio Timorous Beasties produces fabric. Like Domestic Element, they subvert traditional textile designs like toile by using them to depict modern themes. They just go one step grittier and hardcore than DE with their devils, prostitues and heroin addicts, and iguanas. It’s [...]
Anemone Oliveira Textiles is a relatively new company based in Bristol, Rhode Island, run by sisters Dawn Oliveira and Deborah Olson. Their current collection, Ocean, is printed on organic hemp, hand silk-screened in New England with waterbased, Organic Trade Association-approved pigments. The weight is ideal for light upholstery, draperies, and pillows. In this post you’re [...]
Portobello Marilyn Patsy in green Rubie Green is a small company in New York City producing organic upholstery-weight cotton, run by former domino magazine editor Michelle Adams. The fabrics are high-end ($90/yard), but unlike most high-end home dec fabrics which are to-the-trade only, you can buy directly from the website. Delavan Stripe Tillinghast Mary in [...]
Serena & Lily‘s focus is on nursery design, but may of their by-the-yard fabrics would work anywhere. They offer prints on 55″-wide cotton sateen, and many solids and prints in pique, linen, corduroy, and twill. (via Ahn-Minh)
Via design*sponge: Alice Stevenson fabric at St. Jude’s, home of some drop-dead lovely artist-designed screenprinted fabrics. This “Treehouse” pattern reminds me a lot of Lucienne Day. See more pattern work by Ms. Stevenson in her online portfolio.
Fruit Tree — Green on White by Alexander Girard, from maXimo inc. Reference Library posted some original Alexander Girard fabric from eBay, and it prompted me to do a little Googling as I don’t know that much about Girard. maXimo inc. out of Albuquerque, NM (Girard’s home state) has Girard fabric (both screenprinted and woven [...]
I mentioned in my post about fabric hunting on eBay that people use “Eames” or “Eames era” to describe any vaguely midcentury fabric (and some that aren’t even vaguely midcentury, for that matter). Well here is some actual Eames fabric, spotted over at the esteemed Reference Library. It is a 1951 sample of “Sea Things” [...]
Through the April 2008 online edition of Readymade Magazine, I learned of Modern Fabrics, a North Carolina business run by couple James and Ewa Powell that rescues landfill-bound remnant fabric from furniture manufacturers and sells them at deep discounts. From their About page: We focus our selections around designer textile companies including Maharam, Pollack, Sina [...]
I’m pretty sure that I found Cloth through Kathreen, but that could just be because they’re both Australian. In any case, thanks! Cloth is a three-person company led by designer Julie Paterson that hand-dyes and silkscreens their fabrics. The fact that there are no prices on the website for the yardage or the beautiful products [...]
Starting in the early 50s, Lucienne Day brought abstract design to fabric. She and her husband Robin were a mid-century design power duo, often referred to as the British Eameses (only I think her textiles are far more interesting than those of her Yankee counterparts). Her designs were so groundbreaking and enduring that people still [...]
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