Posts tagged ‘linen’
Borderline Fabrics is a London textile company producing “an eclectic collection of prints and weaves from 1730 to the present day for the upholstery and curtain trade.” This beautiful design from the 1930s by E.Q. Nicholson is called Black Goose, and it is available in blue and brown colorways on 100% linen. The U.S. distributor is Lucy [...]
{ Hollywood Grape } Neisha Crosland‘s intensely beautiful interior fabrics are the height of luxury, with lots of velvet, metallics, and embroidery. They are available, surprisingly, not to the trade only, but direct to consumers via her web store, along with gorgeous wallpapers, tiles, prints, stationery and office supplies, and silk scarves. { Firework Flower [...]
{ Beasties } Iconic British textile designer Celia Birtwell has a new collaboration with Uniqlo, so you can own and wear some of her classic prints at a great value. For the occasion I thought I’d share some of the fabrics available from her website. They are hand-screenprinted onto heavyweight linen (some on cotton). It’s [...]
Pickering International is a San Francisco-based wholesale company specializing in textiles made from sustainable and organic fibers. They have all manner of fabric types made from organic cotton and linen, hemp, bamboo, soybean, silk, wool, and other fibers (yak!). And blends thereof. These are just some of the prints and woven or knit patterns, but [...]
Amy Butler‘s Alchemy collection is very complex! At 46 pieces you could be forgiven to not keep them all straight, but they’re divided up further into a lot of different substrates. The Studio Collection contains 12 different prints in different fabrics, including rayon challis, sateen bliss, voile, velveteen, laminates, and linen rayon, aimed at [...]
Tamurakoma & Co. is more than 100 years old but this was their first time at quilt market. Everyone was abuzz about their collection by Sou Sou, calling it a “Japanese Marimekko.” These fabrics may be a bit of a hard sell to U.S. shops since they are narrow goods and pricey (~$80 yard retail), [...]
Zak + Fox is a new-to-the-scene textile and interior design company founded by Zak Profera. Fox is the alias for Zak’s dog Shinji. He writes about the inspiration for the company: “I loved the idea of a boy and his dog traversing the globe, unearthing ancient treasures, and bringing them back to modernity. There’s an [...]
Celina Mancurti is an Argentinian textile designer who now lives in Tampa, Florida. She is the designer of this eco-friendly linen collection that includes fabric yardage and fat quarters, and products sewn with them such as aprons, tea towels, and table runners. She screenprints her creations by hand onto 100% linen with water-based inks. Her [...]
{ Bellows } Studio Bon (aka Bonnee Sharp) produces interior fabrics that are screenprinted by hand in the United States. They are printed onto 100% linen, 100% cotton, or a cotton-linen blend. The fabrics are distributed by Schumacher. See the Studio Bon website for inspirational images and the Schumacher site to see more designs and [...]