Tag: fabric & textiles | Apartment Therapy

Wool-Covered Walls: Cozy or Claustrophobic?

Bolts on a Budget: Freddy Farkel's Fabric Outlet

Tucked away in a quiet industrial park off Storrow Drive is the lyrically named and heavily stocked Freddy Farkel's Fabric Outlet....

Colored Burlap

When you think of burlap, you probably think of the good ole' feedbag tan colored burlap. Well, think again because affordable burlap comes in a spectrum of saturated colors too!...

Bemz Now Offering Replacement Covers for IKEA Poang Chairs

Let's face it, the IKEA Poang chair is ubiquitous for a reason. It's passably attractive, reasonably comfortable and a decent price. While IKEA offers a good range of cushion covers, Bemz now offe...

High & Low: Finding the Look of Josef Frank Fabric for Less

We’re not the first and we certainly won’t be the last to rue the high price tag attached to Josef Frank’s splendidly graphic and surreal fabric designs. Unable to pay upwards of $200 per yard...

Recycling Makes Good: Upholstery by Eleanor Young

Inspired by architectural forms and fragmented shapes, textile artist Eleanor Young recycles old or outdated furniture with conceptual, custom upholstery designs......

Wellfleet Waters: Indoor / Outdoor Fabric Made in New England

Yesterday we posted about Quilt Home, a great online source for fabrics you can use all over the inside of your house. Today we bring you Wellfleet Waters, a source for fabrics you can use inside a...

Quilt Home: User-Friendly Online Fabric Source

A friend of ours just turned us on to Quilt Home, an online fabric source. Sure, they carry a lot of the same designers that you'll find at Purl Soho and Repro Depot (two of our longstanding favori...

Textile Designs by Seema Krish

Boston-based textile designer Seema Krish recently launched her website with a preview of her collection of fabrics made by combining the traditional techniques of hand block printing, embroidery, a...

Modern Woven Textiles by Angharad McLaren

I'm in love with the neon colors and intricate woven patterns by Scottish designer Angharad McLaren. Inspired by sports and performance textiles like climbing rope and fishing nets, she repurposes e...

Sustainable Fabrics Inspired by the Sea

We love it when locally-made, environmentally-conscious products find their way into our mailbox. Add a dose of New England inspiration into the aesthetic and it really makes us smile. Introducing t...

11 of the Greenest Upholstery Textiles

We were delighted to open our Treehugger email this morning to discover an article listing their eleven favorite eco upholstery fabrics, including their criteria for a "green" fabric......

Using the "Wrong Side" of Fabric

As we mentioned in our Jamaica Plain Gem House Tour this week, one of the recent changes we made to our kitchen was sewing a neutral colored sink skirt to break up the intense amount of saturated co...

Castle Embroidery Art

Apartment Therapy has blogged before about Castle's lovely bedlinens but now we bring you their one-of-a-kind hand-stitched fabric art made by Castle's Australia-based owner, Rachel Castle, and her ...

What Untraditional Fabrics Do You Use?

We're always thinking about how to use textiles that were designed for other purposes in our home decor. We found this white vintage stool in the photo above, at Boomerangs in Jamaica Plain for $20...

The Stitch Room
Modular Textiles by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

We wouldn't be surprised to learn that many of AT's DIY readers were prolific fort makers as kids. We used to drape blankets across a set of orange velour chairs on wheels in our family's finished b...

iDye: Fabric Dyes for the Washing Machine

We have an old cotton slipcover waiting to be dyed, but just thinking of finding a space and a tub that's large enough for the fabric to not be bunched up, moving hot water across the floor, having ...

Amenity: Organic Holiday Textiles

Oh, Amenity, how we love you...now if only we could afford you. But there's good news for our fellow big-print, organic-fabric lovers! Amenity's new — very lovely — organic holiday line ...

Green Wall Art: Canvases from K Studio

When it comes to organic textile goods, K Studio is one of our favorites. We've loved their pillows for years but only recently came across these lovely stretched canvas pieces on Design Public......