Traditional Printing Methods

Behind the Scenes: Textile Designer and Actress Clare Louise Frost

Actress, textile designer, world traveler, antique collector, producer—Clare Louise Frost lives a spirited and energetic life. “I feel very lucky that I get to do the work I love,” says Clare, as she chats from TAMAM, the East Village shop that she co-founded with textile designer Elizabeth Hewitt of Tulu Textiles and antiques dealer Huseyin Kaplan of Karavan. As we talk, Clare is surrounded by an arrangement of alluring goods from her travels throughout India, Morocco, Afghanistan, and Turkey. From Vintage Uzbek bowls to Indian Lehenga skirts to an array of hand-embroidered textiles, each shop item in TAMAM tells its own story. Patterns from Clare Louise Frost’s textiles line, one of our to-the-trade showroom lines, can be found throughout her shop, covering pillows, adorning slippers, and printed on highly-coveted silk scarfs and sarongs.