Cotton Fabric Illustrated by Eric Carle

We recently blogged about design influenced by beloved childhood books. We didn't mention Eric Carle specifically but you guys did! You knew what what you were talking about because this beloved author/illustrator has already stepped into our ring. His designs have inspired some fun and nostalgic fabric.

Can't remember Carle? Jump down to for more samples and to be reminded of his greatest work...

Carle's most famous work is probably The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Caterpillar fabric is available but we're more excited about the abstract designs.

We love the bright colors and bold, playful patterns. We're aching to see a chair reupholstered in the numbers, scribble, or color dot fabric. The fruit and junk food design would make great kitchen curtains.

All the fabric is 100% cotton and most patterns sell for $8/yard at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. If you buy, make sure to upload your creation to The Eric Carle Fabric flickr pool!

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LOVE this. It would be so perfect for a child's room.

posted by suziegoombs on August 7th 2008 at 6:20am
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this is incredible...i've always admired Carle's use of color and texture in his illustrations. Check out his home: Eric Carle's Modern Beach House

posted by Aaron on August 7th 2008 at 6:21am
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wow--thanks for this

posted by jen_g on August 7th 2008 at 6:32am
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Wonderful. Thanks so much for posting this! I want to do my son's room over- now I have a starting point!

posted by tjsmf on August 7th 2008 at 7:11am
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Awesome! A few years back I got to work with Carle on making some toys based on his books. (He's wonderful to work with, by the way) and we made these tiny little purses of the Very Hungry Caterpillar ... I kept wanting to make them out of different fabrics but everyone else was like, "no no no! let's make them beaded!" And in all fairness, the beaded purses did come out awesome, but the dots fabric above is exactly like what I had been picturing. I MUST buy some now, although I don't know yet what kind of project I'd use it for. I love the lime green numbers too. He has such fabulous texture to his work.

posted by ridge_van_winkle on August 7th 2008 at 9:27am
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WHERE was that food fabric when I was looking for something to make kitchen curtains??

posted by ehat on August 7th 2008 at 2:56pm
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