Group of Ten (est. 1970) 🇸🇪 design collective promoting creative individuality
2022-07-16
Because its members had previous careers in the textile industry, they wanted to be free to promote their creative ideas. Read More →
A short history of wallpaper
2022-07-15
Before 1840, nearly all the world’s wallpaper came from France, where it was hand-printed, using blocks and sheets of paper to produce a limited line of patterns. Making wallpaper by hand was a costly process, and only the very wealthy could afford to buy it.Read More →
Gertrud Preiswerk 🇨🇭 Swiss textile designer
2022-07-10
Gertrud Preiswerk was a Swiss textile designer she was born in Basel. Between 1926 andRead More →
Oskar Petrovich Gryun (1874 – 1931) Russian 🇷🇺Textile Designer
2022-07-10
Oskar Petrovich Gryun (1874 – 1931) was a Russian Textile Designer. Education He studied atRead More →
Katsuji Wakisaka ( b.1944 ) 🗻 Japanese Textile Designer
2022-07-05
Katsuji Wakisaka is a Japanese textile designer. Between 1960 -1963 he studied textile design in Kyoto.Read More →
Jack Lenor Larsen (1927 – 1920) American Textile Designer
2022-07-02
He opened his workshop in New York in 1952 and received his first commission, from the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, for draperies for 1952 Lever House, New York. At this time, he began machine-weaving fabrics that had the appearance of handweaving; they were subsequently much imitated. Read More →
Peter McCulloch (b.1933) British textile designer
2022-06-29
In the early 1960s, he taught at the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall. Some of his textiles incorporated contrasting colors in small dots suggesting printed circuitry, as in his 1963 Cruachan fabric produced by Hull Traders.Read More →
Allan Walton (1891 – 1948) British painter, decorator, architect and textile designer
2022-01-09
He commissioned some of the most innovative screen prints of the 1930s, designed by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, as a principle of Allan Walton Fabrics. Read More →
Marie Teinitzer (1879 – 1960) Czech textile artist and producer
2021-12-07
Marie Teinitzerová was born in a little town near Pelhimov called kov. However, she and her parents soon relocated to Jindichv Hradec. In Vienna and Brno, she studied painting. She attended the School of Applied Arts in Prague from 1905 to 1906, then a weaving school in Berlin in 1906. Her research tour took her to Denmark, Sweden, and France, where she attended tapestry workshops in Paris. She returned to Prague in 1908.Read More →
Nanna Ditzel (1923 – 2005) Danish architect and furniture designer
2021-12-06
Nanna Ditzel, a leading Danish 20th-century designer, had also worked in furniture, textiles and jewellery design for many decades and has been one of the few women designers in the country to achieve celebrity status.Read More →
Alexander Girard (1907 – 1993) American interior, & Textile designer
2021-11-27
Alexander Girard (1907 – 1993) was a man of many design talents. He trained asRead More →
Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx (1902 – 1998) British textile and graphic designer
2021-11-22
Designs for London Underground seats. She studied painting and wood engraving at the Royal College of Art in London, as well as at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.Read More →
Margaret Simeon (1910 – 1999) British Textile Designer
2021-11-10
She worked as a freelance designer of garment and furnishings textiles. Allan Walton Textiles, Edinburgh Weavers, Campbell Fabrics, and Fortnum and Mason were among her clientele. She taught textile printing at the Royal College of Art.Read More →
Thomas Lamb – Industrial Designer – “The Handle Man”
2021-11-08
Thomas Lamb founded his textile design studio at seventeen, specialising in advertising, fashion, and magazine illustration. In the 1920s, his bedspreads, napkins, and draperies were immensely popular. Many New York department stores carried them, including Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, and Saks Fifth Avenue.Read More →
Fujiwo Ishimoto Japanese born textile & ceramic designer
2021-11-08
The natural world and its phenomena influence Ishimoto’s works. His designs have basic forms that are coupled with vibrant exterior constructions and lavish ornamentation. Ishimoto has won the State Industrial Arts Prize, the Kaj Franck Design Prize, and Honourable Mentions at the Finland Designs show in 1983, 1989, and 1993, among other awards. He was given the Pro Finlandia Medal in 2011. His ceramics and textiles have been featured in several private and group shows. Fujiwo Ishimoto has also designed opera stage sets and costumes.Read More →
Gere Kavanaugh American textile, industrial & interior designer
2021-11-04
Kavanaugh worked for General Motors as a stylist, primarily designing exhibitions to demonstrate autos and creating displays, model kitchens, and interiors. She was one of the company’s first female designers, called the “Damsels of Design” by design director Harley Earl. Read More →
Primerose Bordier (1929 – 1995) French textile designer
2021-10-26
Primrose Bordier (1929 – 1995) was a French designer known for her colourful and innovative home textiles. She studied at the Atelier Charpentier in Paris.Read More →
Marianne Strengell (1909 – 1998) Finnish Textile Designer
2021-09-27
Strengell is the daughter of Finnish architect Gustaf Strengell and interior designer Anna Wegelius born in Helsinki, Finland. Her mother, Anna, was the director of Hemflit-Kotiahkeruus. Read More →
Ruth Reeves (1892 – 1966) American Textile Designer
2021-09-23
Her works were influenced by current innovations in France, such as Cubism, when she returned to the United States in 1927. The American Designers’ Gallery in New York hosted Reeves’ debut exhibition, which featured textiles. Read More →
Boris Kroll (1913 – 1991) American Textile Designer
2021-09-23
In 1938, he founded Cromwell Designs, which began by weaving Modern furniture fabrics on a handloom with a bathtub for dying yarns. He began employing power looms in 1939. Boris Kroll Fabrics, New York, was founded by him in 1946. Cotton and novelty spun rayon was used.Read More →