Lu Summers (Summersville) has added a new hand-screenprinted fabric to her arsenal, called Loops. It’s a natural oatmeal-colored cotton with natural slubs and flecks of cotton seed. She says it’s an experiment in larger-scale designs for her. It comes in four colorways, and is sold by the 10″x14″ piece. Related posts: Scratch by Lu Summers [...]
Saffron Craig‘s next fabric collection, expected to be available for retail sale next month, is called Imaginary Flowers. So cool and Scandinavian-modern, yet very Saffron with the purple/yellow combo! Read her blog post to learn more about it, and to hear a harrowing tale about being a fabric manufacturer. By the way, she’s offering free [...]
{ African Royale } Take a bit of fellow South Africans Shine Shine, a little Timorous Beasties, and a little bit of Vlisco, and you have something like Fabricnation. That’s not to say they’re derivative, though! Fabricnation partners Jann Cheifitz and Jane Solomon are inspired by the South African landscape and by traditional African motifs [...]
Australian designer Pippijoe has just introduced a gorgeous new hand-screenprinted fabric print, Elka. Elka in the Storm colorway, above, is currently available in her Etsy shop. It’s printed on a hemp/organic cotton blend that is suitable for light home decor items and clothing. Elka also comes in black on hemp/cotton blend and 100% upholstery-weight hemp, [...]
Daisy Janie‘s Shades of Grey is now making its way to stores! Like her first major organic collection, Geo Grand, Shades of Grey is a fabulous, versatile group. Betsy of Bon Bon Atelier pointed out that DJ fabrics are a favorite of customers seeking fabric for men’s projects (or things like bedding that have to [...]
{ 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 } [...]
The hand-screenprinters are coming out of the woodwork! Hooray! Chomp Industries is Dana Fehsenfeld’s textile design business in Savannah, Georgia. She draws repeating patterns directly onto vellum and then (I assume) uses these as her positives for burning screens — very cool. She uses natural and sustainable materials for printing. She offers pieces of fabric [...]
{ Angelica – also see blue colorway } My recent post about Sanderson’s Fifties collection led to designer Fiona Howard, who designed for this collection and has also created textile prints and other surface designs for John Lewis, Ikea, and several other prominent companies in the UK and Europe. Ms. Howard also has her own [...]
Today brought the good news that Jessica Jones (who designed two collections, Amusement Park and Modern Flora, for J Caroline Designs a couple years back) is coming out with a new fabric collection, called Outside Oslo. And more good news, we have a new small fabric manufacturer on the scene! Outside Oslo will be produced [...]
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