I don’t always know exactly what I’m looking for when I start investigating a particular pattern style. To be honest,...
As I mentioned in Part 1, there are some common themes that run through all of the Russian folk styles...
Pat Nugent is the founder and president of Patricia Nugent Design & Textiles, and a fashion and vintage textiles expert. She...
As the summer sun blazes down on those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, designing Christmas and holiday patterns doesn’t...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. I discovered Athos Bulcão (1918-2008) quite by chance, when I was...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. “Liberty Style” was the term given to a range of...
Pop Art Patterns is part of a series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. Like many other...
*Guest post by Julie Gibbons. This is the third in a series of posts on famous people who did surface...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. Shibori has been getting a bit of press lately; it...
Toile has been around seemingly forever; and although their popularity waxes and wanes a bit, they never completely disappear. They’re...
*Guest post by Julie Gibbons. Did you know there are (and have been) many famous people out there who did...
In this post Julie Gibbons explores the history of the ever popular damask pattern. You might be forgiven these days...
