Maya Romanoff (1941 – 2014), American textile designer
2023-01-04
Maya Romanoff (1941- 2014) was an American Textile Designer. He studied at the University ofRead More →
Shirley Craven (b.1934) British Textile Designer
2022-10-03
Shirley Craven (b.1934) was a British textile designer. She studied at Kingston upon Hull and the Royal College of Art, London. Craven ‘pioneered an aesthetic more akin to painting than textiles’, breaking ‘all the rules’.Read More →
Junichi Arai (1932 – 2017) Japanese textile designer and producer
2022-09-27
Junichi Arai (1932 – 2017) was a Japanese textile designer and producer born in Kiryu, Gunma. As the sixth generation of a mill-owning family, Arai grew up with fabrics being woven for obis and kimonos. He held traditional weaving methods in high regard and the skills that only the human hand can have in the art of fabric making. Read More →
Helen Abson (b.1942) Australian Architect and Fabric Designer
2022-09-23
Helen Abson, who trained as an architect, is an Australian designer. She pursued architecture for five years; founded ZAB Design where she designed fabrics that exhibited a preoccupation for texture achieved through pattern and colour.Read More →
Margaret Leischner (1908 – 1970) German textile designer
2022-08-18
She began teaching weaving at the Bauhaus in 1931. She worked at the Dresdener Deutsche Werkstatten in 1931, designing woven textiles, and was the head of the weaving department at the Berlin Modeschule from 1932 to 1936. She worked as the head designer for Gateshead, a British fabric manufacturer.Read More →
Laura Ashley (1926 – 1988) British fabric and fashion designer
2022-08-17
Laura Ashley was one of the first British designers to experiment with the concept of lifestyle marketing. Her romantic vision of nineteenth-century rural life, adapted to modern domestic realities, inspired a generation of middle-class Britons who returned to country life in the 1960s and 1970s.Read More →
Minnie Macleish (1876 – 1957 ) British textile designer
2022-08-17
She collaborated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Constance Irving at London’s Foxton textiles and Amsterdam’s Metz store. Macleish was a prolific designer during the 1920s and 1930s, creating patterns for Morton Sundour fabrics.Read More →
Masakazu Kobayashi (b.1944) Japanese textile designer
2022-08-16
Masakazu Kobayashi studied at the University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan. He manifested traditional textile techniques and aesthetics in his work. Between 1966 and 1975, he worked as a textile designer for Kawashima. His 1982 fabric evoked komon, a textile dyeing technique which uses paper patterns with small motifs.Read More →
Tammis Keefe (1913 – 1960) American Textile Designer
2022-07-30
Tammis Keefe (1913–1960) was an American textile designer. She designed everything from dish towels to glassware in her airy Dorothy Leibis Studio. Her work can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt and the Fashion Institute of Technology.Read More →
Marianne Straub Swiss weaver and designer
2022-07-15
Marianne Straub began weaving as a child and later trained under Heinrich Otto Hürlimann Between 1928-31, at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich. Between 1932-33, she was involved with machine production, at Bradford Technical College.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 →
Angelo Testa (1921 – 1984) American fabric designer
2022-06-23
Angelo Testa (1921 – 1984) was an American fabric designer. He studied at the Institute of Design, Chicago, to 1945. As well as being a fabric designer, he was a painter and sculptor.
He designed the 1941 Little Man abstract floral fabric, widely published and hailed as a new direction in textile design. It all began, in fact, with a doodle. A free-form sketch with a dancing shape that intrigued its artist.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 →
Ray Komai (1918 – 2010 ) American Graphic, Industrial and Interior Designer
2021-11-29
Ray Komai was a Japanese American; he was a graphic, industrial and interior designer. He studied in Los Angeles at the Art Center College.
He settled in New York in 1944, where he worked in advertising and set up a graphic design and advertising office (with Carter Winter). J.G. Furniture created Komai’s 1949 moulded plywood chair with a split seat and bent metal legs. They produced his other designs of chairs, tables and upholstered seating as well.Read More →
Candace Wheeler (1827 – 1923) American textile and wallpaper designer
2021-11-29
THE MOTHER OF INTERIOR DESIGN
She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to women, supporting craftswomen, and for encouraging a new style of American design.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 →
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 →
Antonin Kybal (1901 – 1971) Czech Textile Designer & Painter
2021-09-24
Antonin Kybal (1901 – 1971) was a Czech designer in the Decorative and Applied Arts.Read More →
Australian Fabric Designer – John Rodriquez
2021-08-28
John Rodriquez became well known for his textile designs in the early 1950’s. He introduced a unique Australian Style. Read More →