Showing posts with label TEXTILES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TEXTILES. Show all posts


Our Friday eye candy this week comes from Weecos, a sustainable online shopping site from Finland. Weecos enables designers from all over the world to showcase their wares via it's well designed platform and I've picked out a few highlights from my recent browsing session here. Scroll down for prints and patterns on everything from cards, cushions, and wallpaper to clothing, calendars and tea


I've got some seasonal Friday eye candy for us this week courtesy of Finland's Marimekko. Through these gathered images we can take a look at the various colourways and design details of their Kuusikossa fabric. Designed by Maija Louekari Kuusikossa is the Finnish word for Spruce.







































Also having a festive feel at Marimekko are the stylized Christmas trees of


It was 2013 when I last reported on Japanese fabric company Ottaipnu (reminder here). The textile label is the work of super talented designer Masaru Suzuki who creates these bold and beautiful designs. There have been lots of new releases at Ottaipnu since we last checked in and Masaru's work is now being celebrated in a Japanese book and a major exhibition in Fukuoka. Scroll down to enjoy


Talking of designers from Finland here we have some examples of the beautiful work of Minna Niskakangas. Minna has ten years experience in designing home products. She is inspired by different materials as wood, ceramics, metal, glassware and textile. Minna's current passion is pattern making which she does as part of the design team at Pentik, where Minna is responsible for the whole design


Our Friday eye candy this week comes from Debenhams where I recently had a look around their homeware department. I managed to find some surface in their ranges by Ben de Lisi and Jasper Conran. I also spotted some on trend bedlinen featuring marble and geometrics in neutrals and dusky pink. Here are my picks from the current offering....


























































Sian Zeng have teamed up with stylish sofa company sofa.com to create a range of children�s sofas and furniture. They are very proud to be a part of the launch of their first children�s range, which sees the brand�s beautifully made, high-quality pieces scaled down to pint-sized proportions. Sian has designed two new patterns for the project based on their classic Dino and Woodlands wallpapers,


And also from John Lewis some new arrivals from their "House" range of homewares. House is brand based on clean modern design at sensible prices and for AW17 you'll find some beautifully simple geometric designs.









































These beautiful Scandinavian designs are from the Jenny Wallmark Designstudio based in Sweden. Jenny works on all kinds of design projects from magazine illustration to surface design for kitchenware. I particularly loved her cushion designs in her webshop which you can see posted below or to find out more about Jenny Wallmark and inquire about freelance commissions you can go online here.






Bonnie and Neil is a luxury homewares brand from Australia. Founded by creative duo Bonnie Ashley and Neil Downie they offer a range of hand screen print linen cushions, textiles and artworks all made and designed in Melbourne. Stockists for their products include Liberty, Anthropologie and Heals. Here are some of Bonnie and Neil's lovely botanical and geometric designs with many more found


Charlotte Gaisford is a fabric and wallpaper designer who graduated two years ago with a Textile degree (first). She immediately started her own business and gathered plenty of press interest in her textile and wallpaper designs (Charlotte has a wallpaper design in The World Of Interiors magazine October issue). Charlotte first showed her work at New Designers in 2015 and is now exhibiting at


Designer Snowden Flood will be launching a new textile collection at the Decorex show in London on Monday. The collection takes Snowden back to her design roots, when she worked as a Textile Specialist in New York for an architect & interior designer in the 1990�s. She was responsible for finding weavers, printers, embroiderers worldwide, to manufacture the custom designs from her own and from


This week sees the Maison Objet show taking place in Paris and one of those exhibiting are Skinny LaMinx. I first featured Skinny LaMinx on P&P way back in 2007 when designer Heather Moore started out her business with an Etsy shop so it is brilliant to see how far she has come. Showpieces at Maison Objet will include 'Across the Sea' (above & below) and the 'Roof Garden' collection.













Harlequin has introduced Entity, an urban modernist design collection inspired by Architectural Fashion. The avant-garde has always inspired the Harlequin Studio and for her latest collection designer Becky Brown has keyed into the concept of �Architectural Fashion�. Entity is a geometric collection, which explores the interplay of light and shadow, negative spaces and the repetition and


Print & Pattern is about to go off on it's annual Summer break but before I do I noticed some of the new Autumn Winter 17 designs have started to arrive at Maisons du Monde. They'll be working to five major trends - Nordic Escape, 5th Avenue, Neo Cottage, Green Addict and So Blush. Two of those trends are already on sale and the first one I've featured here is 'Green Addict'. This collection


And I am rounding off the week with a selection of store snaps from TK Maxx. I spotted some interesting prints and patterns on cushions, stationery and greetings....