Alyssa Thomas of Penguin and Fish has been one of my favorites since I met her at her first Quilt Market, three years ago. She was one of the very first to show modern embroidery patterns at Market and her whimsically wonderful, frequently oversized designs of critters quickly caught on—they’re simple enough for new embroiderers, [...]
It was clear that I had to post about Emily Isabella’s debut collection for Birch Fabrics today, because I couldn’t stop repeating “May Day! Yay Day!” in my head. Like all of Birch’s collections, Yay Day is printed on organic cotton. It’s available now at Fabricworm (from whence these pictures came) and other stockists. Go [...]
U.K. designer Sarah Waterhouse has a new collection of hand-printed fabrics, and she’s gone from printing panels to printing running meterage. These two new prints, Deco and Thunderbolt, are printed with organic inks on hemp and organic cotton. She says she’ll soon be adding an upholstery weight fabric too. All these are currently available through her [...]
Jennifer Moore of Monaluna drew on Indian style and motifs — elephants, lotus flowers, paisley, pomegranates — for her upcoming collection, Raaga. And of course, it’s 100% GOTS-certified organic. Related posts: Monaluna: Modern Home Fall Quilt Market 2011: Monaluna Fall Quilt Market 2012 – Monaluna Spring Quilt Market 2011: Monaluna Spring Quilt Market 2012: Monaluna
I subscribe to Nadja Girod‘s blog Smil and always enjoy her adventures in screenprinting and digital printing. She lives in Berlin and runs print workshops, and sells stuff through her online shop. Every time I scroll by a post I always say “someone needs to get this girl a fabric collection!” which I also said [...]
Modern Home is the newest collection from Monaluna, Jennifer Moore’s self-produced brand of organic fabrics. It features the awesome combo of midcentury clocks, sofas, coffee, and llamas, with popular and everlasting geometrics to pull it all together. Related posts: Fall Quilt Market 2012 – Monaluna Fall Quilt Market 2011: Monaluna Spring Quilt Market 2011: Monaluna [...]
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 [...]
Banksia Bloom is the newest GOTS certified 100% organic cotton collection by Saffron Craig for Fern Textiles. I know I’ve heard of these “kookaburras” and knew they were Australia-related but had no idea what they were, now thanks to Saffron I know they are birds that frequent rivers. The collection is also populated with Australian exotica [...]
{ images courtesy Birch Fabrics } Birch Fabrics is growing by leaps and bounds. Go Birch Go! Coming this season they’re expanding into new substrates and bringing on new licensees, including a very huge name. Jay-Cyn Designs will have three variations on a theme in three fabric types: organic quilting cotton, organic cotton canvas, and [...]
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