This week’s Home Dec Fabric of the Week selection comes once again thanks to Modern Fabrics‘ weekly newsletter. It’s Designtex’s Alistair, an “extreme performance” fabric that comes in 12 colorways. (Modern Fabrics has Strawberry, top left, for only $18/yard, and I encourage you to follow the link to get the full effect of the beautiful [...]
{ 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% [...]
{ Moonlight in the Pines } OK, how have I managed to get this far along without ever hearing of Full Swing Textiles? Full Swing started out as a vintage shop in Newport, Rhode Island in the 1980s. In 1986, they purchased a lot of 16,000 yards of deadstock vintage barkcloth fabric. As that [...]
Now that it’s nice and springy, I’ve been dreaming about getting some grown-up outdoor furniture. Or, more likely, finding someone else’s outdoor furniture at a thrift store and giving it a facelift. So this outdoor Sunbrella fabric, featured in the Modern Fabrics newsletter yesterday, caught my eye. (I get a lot of my upholstery fabric [...]
Last week we looked at some of Unika Vaev‘s textured upholstery fabrics, now here are some of my favorites amongst their woven designs. Clockwise from top left: Balcón by Dorothy Cosonas, Calypso by Charmaine DeMarco, Cloverleaf by Charmaine DeMarco, Myth by Charmaine DeMarco, Windrad by Josef Hoffmann, 1906; Paradis by Josef Hoffmann, 1908; Comfort by [...]
Unika Vaev, meaning “unique weave” in Danish, was originally a mill in Denmark but changed hands to the American ICF Group in the 1970s. Simple woven geometric patterns and textures characterize their upholstery fabrics. Though prints and large-scale woven patterns tend to catch our eyes more, personally I’m more into beautiful, durable, retro-feeling textures for [...]
Sina Pearson Textiles is a NYC-based upholstery fabric company founded in 1990. Pearson herself studied textiles in the U.S. and Sweden in the 60s-70s, and those influences are evident in her designs today — especially in Coffee Berry, which was actually created from a papercut Pearson made for an undergraduate assignment in 1966. (See more [...]
We already have Japanese Fabric of the Week on Mondays, and Digital Fabric of the Week on Thursdays … I am thinking that, for the new year, each weekday needs its own type of fabric-of-the-week feature. So I’m making Wednesdays Home Dec day, which will give me the opportunity to cover those high-end fabrics that [...]
Style TV host/Interior designer Thom Filicia (who is best known for his role on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) has a new home decor fabric collection with Calico Corners. Thom Filicia Home has a mixture of prints, velvets, linens, jacquard weaves, tweeds, and more in six colorways. His collection follows Calico Corner’s first exclusive [...]
I feel like I’m betraying Quilt Market by my sudden interest in home dec fabrics, but I don’t think Quilt Market will mind. This eclectic and gorgeous bunch of prints is from the two Thomas Paul collections for Duralee. They are normally only available to the trade but Velocity has them for sale, retailing at [...]
I’ve been on a quest to better understand home dec fabrics so I can cover them more here. This led me to revisiting my local Calico Corners, which I remember being full of standard-issue stripes, damasks, and toiles in standard-issue jewel tones. Either they have moved their brand in a fresher, more modern direction, or [...]
Spruce Upholstery in Austin, Texas do stunning work with an amazing array of home dec fabrics, including True Up faves Mod Green Pod and Skinny LaMinx. They’ve self-produced this TV pilot in hopes that it will get picked up by a network. It’s a little bit home-makeover show, a little Ace of Cakes, a little [...]
Swanky Swell is the San Francisco-based company of Nina Jizhar. She just introduced four new designs, all screenprinted by hand on a 54″ wide medium-to-heavyweight organic cotton blend. Gorgeous!
I’ve received quite a few emails asking where to find cool upholstery fabric. The first place I always send people is Modern Fabrics. I’ve posted about them before but their recent newsletter containing an impressive array of new arrivals has prompted me to post again. Owners James and Ewa reclaim fabrics from the high-end modern [...]
Shadow Blossom Fabric by Suzanne Meyer Pistorius for Blugirlart On True Up we write mostly about quilting weight cotton prints, and that’s what a majority of our sponsors sell or make. It’s a given that we love it! But one of my primary goals is to branch out and explore other types of fabric, and [...]
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