Continuing the discussion on colorful printed fabrics – today we look at Kathryn M. Ireland Fabrics, another boutique textile designer who designs and prints her fabrics in California. I love the riot of color and pattern in this photograph.
Kathryn M. Ireland Fabrics
These fabrics are all from Kathryn M. Ireland and no she is not the former Sports Illustrated model but rather an English woman who immigrated to LA. Perhaps you saw her on Bravo TV’s “Million Dollar Decorators”.
Kathryn is inspired by historic french textiles (she lived on a farm in France when she was young) and by Indian and Moroccan patterns. In fact most western textiles owe much to the millennia old tradition of printing fabrics in India. The pattern on the bed is based on a classic Turkish Suzani pattern found in woven rugs.