#textile-design

#textile-design

Plaid bedding and home decor have shifted into something far more versatile than the dated tartans and checks most of us grew up with. Today's versions show up in brushed flannel bedspreads, softened wool grids, woven linen patterns, and washed color palettes that work in a cabin-inspired space and beyond. Instead of dominating the room, the best plaids act as a stabilizer: They give a space definition, add texture, and help solid colors feel more intentional.

The designers behind this clever piece, Fenna van der Klei and Patricio Nusselder, drew inspiration from the traditional craft of textile pleating, where fabric is carefully folded to create different shapes and volumes. It's the same technique that gives your favorite pleated skirt its structure or adds dimension to fancy curtains. But here, pleating isn't just decorative. It's doing all the heavy lifting, quite literally.

The world of Ralph Lauren Home has long included hallmarks of the American West: tooled leather, silver accessories, handmade rugs, and more. For its new Canyon Road collection, the iconic brand followed that inspiration directly to the source, teaming up with seventh-generation sister-brother Navajo weavers Naiomi and Tyler Glasses to create a range of furnishings that herald indigenous craft. The siblings now serve as the label's first artists in residence in the home category.

Splash captures the kind of moment that usually evaporates as quickly as it appears, the instant when paint leaves the brush and lands in an unplanned, perfect pattern. This design takes that impulse and fixes it in textile form, allowing a fleeting artistic gesture to live permanently within a space. The concept begins with the language of abstract art. The surface is scattered with color in unpredictable rhythms, as if created by a single motion of the arm and a quick flick of the wrist.

The collection of 17 mixed-media pieces showcases the transformation of flat paper into sculptural volume through a simple fold, highlighting the intersection of craft and materials.

When she arrived at campus that October morning, ready to chain myself to that tree, the only other person there was the man coming to decommission it.

"Her current endeavor can be described as a work of cartography, in the widest sense. The weavings model reality in the most abstract ways, combining scientific inquiry, aesthetics and technique, as all map-making does that tries to capture reality in spatial form."