Pretty Printed Linens
Dots and stripes linen bundle at Seamstar UK. (via Donna Flower‘s Pinterest)
Posts tagged ‘linen’
Cabbages and Roses: Northcote Range
The U.K. company Cabbages and Roses is a popular home decor and fashion brand throughout Europe. (This season’s dresses are gorgeous — they’re going on my Pinterest Fall Fashion Wishes!) They have been producing fabric collections for the home for more than a decade, and their delicate, timeless designs are being brought to quilting fabrics [...]
Two New Fabrics From St. Jude’s
Painswick by Ed Kluz, available in two colorways. Nature Table (curtain) by Angie Lewin, available in four colorways. Both of these new fabrics are from St. Jude’s, and both are screenprinted in the UK onto a heavyweight linen union. { images from St. Jude’s }
Harvest Textiles
This is Totem, a hand-screenprinted fabric collection by Harvest Textiles in Melbourne, Australia. Harvest Textiles is run by three women — Jess Wright, Emma Byrnes and Lara Davies — who design and print these fabrics for clothing, home decor, accessories, sewing kits, and for their own sake. They also run screenprinting and textile workshops. Totem [...]
Cloth Australia
Cloth Fabric is probably the first Australian hand-screenprinting fabric company to appear on my radar. I realized I hadn’t checked in for a while and it turns out they have several new prints and other product lines going on. If you’re not familiar, Cloth is a small independent fabric company that has been operating out [...]
Tara Davy Textiles
{ Partridge } There is a new designer of hand-screenprinted fabrics on the Australian scene — Tara Davy Textiles. This collection is a collaboration between Ms. Davy and Kelani Fabric Obsession, so it’ll be sold through Kelani exclusively. Tara Davy is designer/illustrator in the magazine industry by trade. The two designs are printed in different [...]
Vanessa Arbuthnott
{ Nature Study } Vanessa Arbuthnott is a U.K. designer who offers fabrics, wallpapers, and home furnishings through her website and also through designer showrooms internationally. The simple, beautiful designs and soft colors sit right on the cusp between traditional cottage-style and modern. Fabrics are printed on a medium weight linen union (60% linen, 40% [...]
Fifi by Fiona Howard
{ 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 [...]
Ikea: PS Tott
I don’t think I knew that IKEA had linen amongst their fabrics. This simple dot (also available in bleached linen with black dots) is sold as a pre-cut panel, 118″x35″.
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
We have a long holiday weekend here in the U.S. and Canada, so I’m signing off till Tuesday. Enjoy the many sales and have a restful three days! What are your plans? I leave you with these irresistible graph paper fabrics (plain linen/cotton, laminated) from Nothing Elegant on Etsy. (via the Crafts Dept.)
Daily Swatch: Feathers
I couldn’t let this feathers theme go by without a nod to perhaps the most iconic feather print of all time, Liberty of London’s Hera. According to eBay U.K. seller The Airing Cupboard (who has two vintage versions of the print currently, including the c.1970s linen above), this peacock feather design was originally created for [...]
Shine Shine New Design
Meet Jackie. Her Boyfriend. Her hot date shoes. His truck? Or maybe Jackie’s? Jackie and her boyfriend communicate their feelings for one another via their relationship statuses on Facebook. I don’t think Jackie’s boyfriend stands a chance, do you? I love every detail of this fabric. It’s the latest of Heidi Chisholm‘s fabric designs for [...]
Spring Quilt Market 2010: Robert Kaufman
Have you met Emmie, Allie, and Kyle? I love these ladies. They’re Robert Kaufman‘s marketing department and I feel like we’ve become good pals. It’s funny because the three quilt markets I’ve been to, the RK booth has always had the same configuration and these ladies have always been sitting in the same spots relative [...]
Preview: Heather Ross’ Far Far Away 2
{ Meadow Colorway } { Plum Colorway } { Aqua Colorway } In case you missed it on Heather’s own blog, here is the full preview of the next iteration of her Far Far Away collection for Kokka. I’m already looking for the perfect dress pattern to pair with those roses. Unlike the first round [...]
Japanese Fabric of the Week
This is a “Hogushi-Kasuri” linen fabric new to the wonderful shop Lin-net, who carries a wide range of linen fabrics and even some original cotton prints. Kasuri (or Gasuri) is a type of ikat weaving (or Kasuri is the Japanese word for ikat, I’m not sure). In Hogushi-Kasuri, the warp yarns are put on the [...]
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