Probably the best masculine fabric print I’ve ever seen, from one of my favorite hand-screenprinted, artisan fabric purveyors St. Jude’s. It’s called Herring Moon and it’s by artist Jonathan Gibbs. It is available in three colorways on 100% heavyweight cotton, as meterage or as pre-made cushion covers.
Just two of the many new Spoonflower-printed fabrics from Alice Apple. I just love her! ( images from Alice Apple’s blog )
Lu Summers (Summersville) has added a new hand-screenprinted fabric to her arsenal, called Loops. It’s a natural oatmeal-colored cotton with natural slubs and flecks of cotton seed. She says it’s an experiment in larger-scale designs for her. It comes in four colorways, and is sold by the 10″x14″ piece.
{ Bows } Sarah Waterhouse has some new prints and new colorways of older prints. She screenprints these designs by hand with waterbed inks on environmentally friendly fabrics like hemp and organic cotton, and offers them by the piece through both Folksy (U.K.) and Etsy. { Pods } { Knitting } { Bird Brolly }
{ amor blue } Corita Rose, based in Dorset, England, makes gorgeous printed cotton velvets. They have several prints available by the meter, and also print fabrics for furniture, curtains, and cushions. { gypsy leaf } { white birds }
{ Mobiles } Because I haven’t been sufficiently jealous of UK people in the last few days, along comes Sanderson and their new Fifties collection, which includes archival prints as well as 1950s-inspired prints by contemporary designers. Check out the interior shots on their website to get a much better idea of the scale and [...]
U.K. screenprinting artist Lu Summers has a new fabric in her shop (Summersville), a clever/simple/cool pattern of different paintbrush strokes. It comes in a few colors including this darker teal. The 10×14″ pieces are great for small projects.
Central Texans! Here’s something to look forward to after being soaked by Hermine. The Austin Area Quilt Guild Show is September 17-19. It has moved to the Palmer Events Center so you know it’s going to be the biggest and best one ever. And Malka is one of the vendors! If you’d like a pair [...]
Well, it’s just turning out to be a British-centric week, isn’t it? Katy of I’m a Ginger Monkey is posting a series on U.K. fabric shops that offer modern, contemporary designer fabrics. Lots of new-to-me shops that will hopefully provide a boost the international sale alerts. The list so far: Backstitch Patch Fabrics The Fabric [...]
True Up’s favorite fabrics from Vicky’s collection Please tell the audience a little about yourself, where you live, your blog and shop if you have them, what you do when you’re not sewing … Hello I’m Vicky and I run Something Fine. I live in a town called Kingston Upon Thames in Southwest London — [...]
England-based Corita Rose designs gorgeous cotton and velvet upholstery fabrics and uses them for their custom chairs, sofas, curtains, and cushions. “Vibrant, tribal, heraldic, and folk emblems are our speciality,” says the website, and I couldn’t describe the fusion any better. Look for corduroy coming soon. via Volksfaden and Poppytalk
El Caminos in the West Wish You Were Here is a collaboration of husband-and-wife team Fiona and Ben O’Brien. On the side of their commissioned illustration and design work they sell a collection of art prints, cushions, fabric, and wallpaper (the latter produced through Studio Nommo). Feelgood by Numbers The fabrics are digitally printed on [...]
above two works by Emma Rampton Textile Design at Chelsea is (was?) a blog covering student work at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. It hasn’t been updated for two years, but there is still a lot of inspiration there. Melanie Bowles, co-author of Digital Textile Design (covered here last week), is a Senior [...]
Clothkits has their brand new 2009 catalog available for download. They’ll also send you one via post by emailing info@clothkits.co.uk. As always, their stuff just kills me. I have such a crush on them. I also recently discovered that Clothkits’ main designer Jane Foster has a website and wonderful blog. There you’ll find lots of [...]
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