It's been 3 years since Stacy Waggoner and Kate Reynolds opened Studio Four in Manhattan's Flatiron district. I recently heard they'd expanded into a larger space flooded with gorgeous light, so I went in to see them. Their beautiful new showroom is … Continue Reading ››
Knoll luxe in New York City's D&D building is diminutive by comparison to other showroom spaces, but there's more here than meets the eye. It's a concentrated nerve center representative of the emerging technologies of no less than 8 countries in textile design. … Continue Reading ››
Boucle is first a novelty yarn, produced by spinning two threads of different tensions together. While keeping one thread taught, and allowing the second to remain loose, loops of slight variation form along the strand. Boucle as a fabric is made by weaving a common uniform warp thread with the filler weft being … Continue Reading ››
Crewel (the earliest examples of which are 1000 years old), refers to a basic broadcloth textile embroidered either by hand or by machine with a yarn to produce a pattern in relief. Thought to originate in the Mesopotamian crescent, crewel made it's way into fashion among the privileged in England and France by … Continue Reading ››