Humans have used textiles for millions of years in pretty much the same manner.
Inspired by Philip Johnson and Rare Minerals, Jonathan Olivares Designs a New Textile for Kvadrat
Working with the Harvard Art Museum's Straus Center for Conservation, Olivares developed the textile after creating a specially-commissioned piece of furniture for Johnson's Thesis House.
HAWORTH & KVADRAT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Haworth, Inc. and Kvadrat are launching a new partnership at NeoCon and Orgatec to provide a global textile offering that coordinates with Haworth’s global product portfolio.
Lectra Unveils Cutting Room 4.0 and New Made-To-Order Solution for Fashion and Furniture Markets
Lectra treated Texprocess Americas attendees to the first glimpse of the brand new Cutting Room 4.0 at the official unveiling and ribbon cutting ceremony.
Wolf-Gordon’s New Collection Defies Conventions with Its Tactility and Luxury
Dutch designer Mae Engelgeer's three new releases in the Matter collection betray a fascination—seldom seen in commercial fabrics—with touch, richness, and contrast.
Moore & Giles Announces Partnership with Steelcase
The new collaboration will introduce two of Moore & Giles’ popular leather collections into Steelcase’s Select Surfaces Leather offering.
Camira Presents New CEU On How Wool Textiles Improve Office Health and Wellness
Camira is presenting a new Continuing Education Unit (CEU) entitled “Specifying Sustainable Fabrics to Enhance Health and Wellbeing.”
HBF + HBF Textiles Expands Team with Carrie Hahn as A+D Manager
Designtex has received the REPREVE® Champions of Sustainability Award
Since the introduction of this collection, Designtex has continued to develop and introduce additional products that utilize the closed loop concept and to support the sustainability movement with its Carbon Neutral Shipping commitment.
A look at the future of textiles
Design research agency FranklinTill presented the current color and material trends for the textile industry at Heimtextil in Frankfurt.
Watch: Made by Camira - Brand Film
Our fabrics are Made by Camira. Our expertise goes from farm to fabric and we handle everything in between. Watch our new brand film to learn more about what we do.
Textile Collection Makes the Office a Second Home
Friday Five with Mary Murphy of Maharam
Mary Murphy is the Senior Vice President of Design at Maharam, which she joined in 1992 after a stint at Herman Miller. The New York-based brand has been a prominent force in the textile world since 1902 and was acquired by Herman Miller in 2013.
Milliken launches website for newly-created Specialty Interiors
Milliken & Company, a leading global textile technology company, has recently launched a website designed specifically to highlight the advantages of its newly created Specialty Interiors business
Brentano Introduces Fall 2017 Collection
Inspired by the De Stijl movement of the early 20th century, Brentano Design Director, Iris Wang has created Fall 2017's GRID collection.
A Fresh, Bold Assortment of Color From Concertex
In an artful arrangement of coordinated color and design, Concertex introduces the new Faux Leather Source Book.
It's A Material World
Happily, the workplace is no longer tied to prescriptive ideas of how it should look or function. Corporations and start-ups alike are creating multi-purpose spaces in which people do lots of different things. Given the mobility and diversity of the people at work, we see a need for universal design and materials that allow everyone to function, to do what they do, whoever they are. Today, materials are not applied as specifically as before, rather we look for textiles that can be used across the office and on both the horizontal and vertical plane.
Chilewich Breaks Down the Design Process of the Grid Collection
The innovative New York City company has a way with patterns, colors, and textiles landing their collections ahead of the trends, thanks to their founder and creative director, Sandy Chilewich.
Innovations Design Studio Introduces Summer Collection
For their summer collection, the Innovations Design Studio asked, “What is architecture … is it form or function, shelter or art?” The eight new wallcoverings explore how Innovations fits into the broader architectural project with practical colorways and constructions. Among them, Prairie is Innovations’ most convincing vinyl interpretation of grasscloth to date.
London Chic by Wolf-Gordon Inspired by City’s Eclecticism
Wolf-Gordon continues its exploration of patterning inspired by one of the of the world’s most beloved cities in its latest edition of London Chic Type II wallcovering. The patterns in this collection reference the city’s regal luxury as well as its cultural diversity, and are certified to the NSF/ANSI 342 sustainability standard.