Posts tagged ‘u.k.’

Borderline Fabrics

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 [...]

Alice Apple

I’m a little late to pull the trigger on this post because Alice Apple‘s sample and remnant packs are already sold out from her Etsy shop, but maybe these images will inspire you to pick up some yardage from her Spoonflower shop. Related posts: Alice Apple: New Fabrics Alice Apple Digital Fabric of the Week [...]

Sarah Waterhouse

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 [...]

Neisha Crosland

{ 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 [...]

Felicity Miller: Charleston Farmhouse

I assumed Felicity Miller‘s new Charleston Farmhouse collection for Freespirit referenced Charleston, South Carolina, but no, it’s about the Charleston house in Sussex, England, the meeting place for the loose collective of creatives and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury group. The focus print drew me in when I first saw it in a booth at Quiltcon — the navy [...]

Celia Birtwell

{ 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 [...]

Leann Fanny

Leeann Fanny offers her hand screen printed fabrics on Etsy through her shop Little House Martin. She lives and works in Suffolk, U.K., also home to Ms. Lu Summers, through whom I learned of her! The fabrics are printed by the panel, on natural quilting weight cotton. Keep up with her on her blog here. [...]

Ben the Illustrator

The Ben the Illustrator Collection is actually a joint production of husband-and-wife team Ben and Fiona O’Brien. They offer fabrics digitally printed in the U.K., plus cushions and lampshades made from them. There are 12 prints available, printed on Cotton Half Panama (a type I’ve never heard of, and it’s not in my Dan River [...]

Imogen Heath

{ Viaduct and Starling } I saw Imogen Heath’s bedding on Bloesem and was excited to find, after following the link, that she offers fabric yardage of her designs as well. These digitally printed fabrics are printed on a 56″ wide, home dec weight 50/50 cotton/linen blend and are available through Not on the High [...]