Prints Charming has a new home with Kokka for their volume-produced fabric collections, and I think it suits them perfectly! I say volume-produced because their roots are in hand-screenprinted fabrics — making them as well as teaching others to make them. In fact, Cath and Kirsten are touring the U.S. as we speak, holding embroidery [...]
Nani Iro Autumn/Winter 2011 fabrics are out, and Miss Matatabi is the first shop I know of to have them! The collection marks the introduction of a new basecloth, cotton viyella, which Matatabi describes as a soft, lightweight cotton twill. Free patterns (in Japanese) for the collection here.
Luluca is a mini-collection from Kokka on their new 61″ wide, lightweight 85% cotton-15% linen blend. This fabric is suitable for apparel, quilts, crafts, and light home dec. Spotted at Purl Soho.
Here’s a sweet little reproduction collection on a cotton-linen blend from Kokka. See the three other colorways on the Seven Islands site. I haven’t seen this in shops yet, have you?
Hi! I am new to the fabric world and I was looking for some good tips on what is the best sheer or gauze fabric. I keep seeing the term voile used and organza. I want something that is really sheer and with a great color print. Any ideas where I can get this or [...]
Utako Yamada is the Japanese illustrator behind a tea-centric product brand called Karel Capek, named after the Czech author who invented the term “robot”. These are not the first of Yamada’s designs to be put on fabric by Kokka, but it might be the largest and most cohesive collection to date. These fabrics are a [...]
Ruby Star Spring, Melody Miller‘s second collection for Kokka, is now arriving in stores, and I can’t wait to get my hands on some. I love the pixelly designs and Melody’s inventive colorways. It’s a 62″ cotton-linen blend in a new lighter weight. “Bee” (center) is very large-scale (see this picture for reference) — the [...]
Folky/Pennsylvania Dutch/Scandinavian motifs have been a trend in fabrics for a couple years now. Are you tired of it yet? Not me. These prints are part of the new Trefle offerings from Kokka. Spotted at Fabricworm — there are a few other colorways, including black and grey, and a cute little mushroom coordinate.
Seven Islands is the U.S. distributor of Kokka fabric and other Japanese fabrics and notions. They were showing the new colors and patterns of Echino, which includes some favorite patterns in new colors: Some of the patterns are available on a woven nylon substrate, which would be great for bags or raincoats. Melody Miller‘s new [...]
These knits are part of the Nani Iro 10th Anniversary collection for Kokka. All the prints in this collection are stunning, but I just love how these all look together. Matatabi (disclosure: True Up sponsor) has them all, and has some nice up-close photos so you can see the pattern that is knitted into the [...]
Heather Ross just unveiled Far Far Away III for Kokka, which will be introduced to wholesalers at Spring Quilt Market next month and is expected to be in stores in June. Heather says there will be two weights of cotton/linen, one of them presumably is the lighter apparel-weight cotton/linen they’re using for Melody Miller’s Ruby [...]
Melody Miller has announced her second collection for Kokka, Ruby Star Spring, to be introduced at the Spring Quilt Market and available retail shortly thereafter. It’s a compact collection, three prints (Bee, Bloom, and Buzz) in three colorways apiece, and has the most wonderful colors and — my favorite! — pixels! Bee and Buzz have [...]
Here’s something new for all you vintage-European-folk-by-way-of-Japan fans — a bird and floral print on a hemp-cotton blend, from Etsy seller JapanKawaiiYa.
One of the new Kokka collections I was excited about at Fall Quilt Market was Yoshie Milk‘s. Her collage-y illustration style immediately reminded me of Lauren Child (who happens to have several designs in the Spring 2011 Liberty Tana Lawn collection!). Yoshie Milk’s collection is just now hitting the stores — it’s called Miriporun. It [...]
{ What’s in a selvedge? (How to spot the fakes on etsy) by rastis100 on Flickr; used with permission. } I interrupt this regular column to alert you to a problem that has recently come to my attention: counterfeit Japanese fabric. I found out about this when I inadvertently posted a ripoff print in this [...]
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