Happy calico animals cotton, spotted at Nanagracy on Etsy. Related posts: Farm Animals From Lecien Happy Cats and Dogs Japanese Fabric of the Week: Floating Animals Kokka Labels and Ads Japanese Fabric of the Week: Jolis Copains from Kokka
Leaves, Marimekko-esque flowers, cars, and hippos — four different motifs, all brought together by diamondy-dotty stripes. These 100% cotton lightweight canvas prints (available individually or in precut bundles) were spotted at Fabricworm amongst lots of new fabrics from Kokka. Related posts: Kokka Trefle Scandi Prints Japanese Fabric of the Week: Jolis Copains from Kokka Kokka [...]
Fabricworm has an impressive array of new Japanese imports including these vintage-y cats from Kei in three colorways. Related posts: Happy Cats and Dogs Daily Swatch: Cats Daily Swatch: Cats Daily Swatch: Cats Daily Swatch: Cats
Japanese fashion legend Mina Perhonen (“I Butterfly” in Finnish) archives its fabrics on their website — do any other fashion brands do this? Looking back (all the way to 1997) it shows how ahead-of-the-curve yet timeless they are. Their collection always incorporates embellished/embroidered textiles as well as prints and wovens — too bad they’re not [...]
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 [...]
Ellen Luckett Baker (author of the blog The Long Thread, the book 1, 2, 3 Sew, and my kind helper outer at Spring Quilt Market this year) will be releasing her second fabric collection with (cue angel choir) Kokka! It’s called “Stamped,” and it’s inspired by the handmade, block-printed look. There will be six prints [...]
Keli saw a glimpse of these fabrics at Spring Quilt Market, but I didn’t realize till seeing them at Fabricworm and Matatabi that they were designed by San Francisco’s Dutch Door Press, who have been letterpressing and screenprinting their Penn-Dutch and Euro-folk motifs since 2007 on Etsy — I’ve always wanted to see them design [...]
Fabric Tales in Japan ships worldwide and has a nice selection of double gauze, including the Fruit Flowers collection above, Nani Iro and Echino, and some plain solids in white and natural (for your printing ventures perhaps?). Related posts: Daiwabo Double Gauze Help Japan by Buying Japanese Fabric Japanese Fabric of the Week: Nani Iro [...]
{ Rose } I’ve covered Kalla Design‘s hand-screenprinted fabrics on True Up before. She has made several of her designs available for sale on Spoonflower, including new ones especially for digital printing. You can find them in her etsy shop too. { Bird } { Katsura } { Casanay } { Nest } { Chevron [...]
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