The Makers

Why we think KLS is cool AF

For those of you who haven’t yet been acquainted with our friend Kate Loudoun Shand and her wildly good textile line, please allow us to properly introduce you... You’ll soon see why we think she’s so insanely cool and genuinely one of the most talented textile artisans around!

“For me, so much of it is about the sensuality of the space… the smells, the textures around me, the overall feel.” Kate starts her day with a refreshing 45-minute walk along the English countryside, covered in green pastures with sheep and deer. Upon arriving to her office, she lights one of her favorite candles “to get the smell of the space right” and begins the workday—painting, reviewing samples, and corresponding with clients. Her current world in Wiltshire, U.K. is a far cry from her old neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, but this slower pace of life gives Kate and her husband and business partner, Chris, the opportunity to spend more time with their elderly mothers and extended family. Kate and Chris, along with their three children, George (12), Sophie (8), and Burt (6), have been back home in the U.K. for almost two years now, and Kate is enjoying her time as a beautiful blend of textile design and family life.

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.

The Magical World of Ottoline de Vries

Welcome to the world of textile and wallpaper designer Ottoline de Vries—a space filled with color, whimsy, and pure creative joy! Ottoline’s patterns are known for their bold color and composition, born out of her immense love of nature, art, and abstract shapes. Ottoline recently chatted with us about her design inspiration, industry expertise, and that super fun gig she had designing fabulous wrappings for a chocolate company in Amsterdam. While each of her patterns have a unique sensibility, all of Ottoline’s patterns radiate an absolutely contagious energy in the rooms that are so fortunate to occupy them. And we couldn’t be more excited to welcome her and her spectacular line here in our to-the-trade showroom.

Cabana Magazine's 'Masters and Muses' with Nathalie Farman-Farma

We were thrilled to see Décors Barbares designer Nathalie Farman-Farma on IGTV with Cabana Magazine’s editor in chief, Martina Mondadori Sartogo this past week. Martina and Nathalie discussed all things inspiration, from elaborately layered caftans to beaded Ukranian jewelry. Nathalie shared her deep admiration for the humanities, specifically her academic past with the study of classical antiquity, her present admiration for Russian culture, and her new interest in Japan and China. She credits the complexity of her multi-cultural designs to the beautiful cross-pollination of different geographic areas as a result of trade advancement. ‘It’s the trade really. These trade objects [costumes, jewelry, books, bits of ribbon and trim] went all over the world…,’ says Nathalie, as she shares her collection of antique textiles from endless different origins.

Nathalie Farman-Farma of Décors Barbares

We’re positively thrilled to welcome Nathalie and her charming fabric studio, Décors Barbares, to the showroom. If you’re not yet familiar with the line, you’ll soon come to realize why her fabrics have an elite AD 100 cult following.

Influenced by her Russian nanny, textile designer Nathalie Farman-Farma of Décors Barbares credits the majority of her inspiration to Russian culture—her collection of old Russian textiles, ribbons, art, embroideries, and porcelain regularly contribute to her creative process and design. Nathalie was raised in France with her French father and American mother until the age of 18. Expressing a love for fabrics as an adolescent, Nathalie would explore her French grandmother’s closets for tea dresses and other intriguing design contributions to the fashion world. As a young adult, she studied Classics at Brown and Columbia University before working as associate editor for The New Yorker.

The Lovely and Talented Brett Beldock of Brett Design

We’re all doing a major happy dance about the addition of the latest line we’ve hand-selected to join our showroom - Brett Design! If you’re not yet familiar with Brett Beldock and her fabulously creative wallcovering patterns, here’s the scoop.

New Penny Morrison Wallpaper

New Penny Morrison Wallpaper

We have long adored Penny Morrison’s gorgeous and extensive line of textiles, and are now equally smitten with her new line of wallcoverings. The image below features the sweet Flowerberry Wallpaper in Pink, just one of our many favorites—scroll through each pattern below to find the perfect colorway for your next project!

Carolina Irving: Spring 2020 Performance Collection

Carolina Irving: Spring 2020 Performance Collection

We are incredibly excited to share Carolina Irving’s brand spanking new Performance collection, which has just officially launched TODAY! We are in the works of getting all pattens and colorways set up on our website, but these fabrics are just too good not to give y’all a little sneak peek!

Clay McLaurin Studio: Spring 2020 Collection

Clay McLaurin Studio: Spring 2020 Collection

New collections from our showroom lines are always sure to put us in a super fine mood! And we couldn’t be more excited to share the spring 2020 textiles from our dear friends Clay and Todd of Clay McLaurin Studio. Tami recently had the opportunity to hang with the guys in their new LA Mills location so we’ll let them tell you all about what’s new…

COVID-19 Line Updates

COVID-19 Line Updates

While things are changing on a daily basis for our vendors, as they are for us all, please know that we are here to make your specifying and ordering process as easy and seamless as possible. Here in the showroom, we are working a normal schedule and are able to safely ship memos out on a daily basis. Quotes and orders are processed within 1 business day, as per usual.

A Chat With Seema Krish

We recently had the chance to meet with textile and wallcovering artisan Seema Krish in her light-filled San Francisco studio. Please allow us to introduce you….

This is just one of many short video clips we captured when we spent the day with Seema. Y’all should definitely check out her page on our website to view the others, including a preview of her brand new Spring 2020 Beachcomber collection. We are already completely and utterly captivated by her new patterns!

BONUS! Seema and her team have just launched their inaugural studio sale featuring small cuts of her textiles, quilt kits and pillows - shop now while the getting is good, and let us know what you score by tagging #clothandkindshowroom and #seemakrishtextiles on social. Happy shopping!