A couple weeks ago I went on a fabric-designing binge, fueled by my desire for 18th century historic prints. I designed a small collection based on my favorite sprigged muslins, Indienne block prints, and Chinese hand-painted silks, and uploaded them to Spoonflower.com, a custom fabric store that allows you to purchase designs on a number of difference materials, including cotton sateen, voile, and silk crepe de chine. I just received my samples in the mail and they’re lovely! Check out these designs and a handful of others in my first collection, with yardage now for sale on Spoonflower:
This print is closely based on this c. 1795 robe in the collection of the V&A (T.121-1992). The original design is block printed Indian chintz.
Here’s a hand-painted chinese silk polonaise from the Met (1970.87a,b), and my fabric swatch based on the material:
This is a blue organic vine pattern, from a gown in the Kyoto Costume Institute (AC7621 92-34-2AB):
There are more in the new collection, all researched and as close to original fabric as I could get. Use the cottons for jackets and caracos, or entire robes and gowns. Also, if you would like to request a fabric or a specific color change to one that I have already designed, just e-mail me and I will work on it for you!
16 Comments
Nycteris
March 8, 2011 at 1:42 AMWow, these are beautiful! Wonderful job. I wish I had the money! 😉
-Julia
Anonymous
March 8, 2011 at 1:53 AMOMG, I love them. Keep it coming!
Unknown
March 8, 2011 at 2:17 AMI love these, fabulous!
Berta Platas
March 8, 2011 at 12:13 PMYou have the coolest ideas, find the best resources, and do such excellent work! Kudos.
Unknown
March 8, 2011 at 12:31 PMHow exciting, but can't chat now must race over to Spoonflower to see you full selection.
Anonymous
March 8, 2011 at 2:31 PMWow! Just wow!
Edwina Sutherland
March 8, 2011 at 3:08 PMI had no idea there was such a service! It opens up so many possibilities! is the quality there?
Anonymous
March 8, 2011 at 11:44 PMwow, so lovely!
MeredithJean
March 8, 2011 at 11:46 PMGreat idea and gorgeously done. Now THIS is what Spoonflower is for!
Lauren Stowell
March 9, 2011 at 12:36 AMThank you everyone! I had fun doing these, and will do more. The price is high per yard, but that's the trade off for totally custom fabric. This is a great little site if you have to have and exact fabric match – try it for yourself, ladies, it's really quite a lot of fun and easy to use 🙂
Madame Berg
March 9, 2011 at 10:03 AMI'm so glad someone (and especially that is was you) finally used Spoonflower for what has always been its true purpose! I always wished I had the skills for it – now I don't have to!
Anonymous
March 10, 2011 at 7:18 PMFabulous!!! Spoonflower is far too big a temptation! Great designs, Duchie.
The Dreamstress
March 11, 2011 at 7:52 AMFabulous! Please show pictures of what your prints look like on real fabric – I can't wait to see how they translate!
Julie
March 26, 2011 at 1:36 PMI LOVE the two striped ones and that blue and white all-over… These are great!!
khowardquilts
March 26, 2011 at 3:34 PMGreat designs and a good use of Spoonflower. I'm khowardquilts there.
Mary
February 27, 2012 at 3:36 PMI've made my own fabric designs too and I'm waiting for the test swatches now! What do you think about the quality ? Is the first (18$) fabric efficient for historical costume for example? Are colors similar to what you wanted? As I'm french, shipping taxes + price/yard makes a very expensive order… I wanted to have a costume maker advice 😀
Thanks a lot!
Mary