Florals, brocades, stripes and geometrics can take the most ho-hum space to another level, injecting movement and personality while softening hard edges and elevating the overall design scheme. “To me ...

In the tribal villages of Hazaribagh in Northeastern India, facades of mud huts are adorned with intricate floral and vine patterns painted by local women using a dark manganese coating and a pale ...

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Duro Olowu has turned his eye for richly patterned textiles to a new collaboration with the furniture and housewares brand Soane Britain. By Aimee Farrell When the Nigerian-born fashion designer Duro ...

When Fawn Galli, an interior designer, needed drapery for her floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Central Park, no ordinary fabric would do. Plain silk, damasks and traditional florals all lacked the ...

A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...

“My visual world is all about noticing small but exciting details,” says designer Rebecca Atwood in the introduction to her upcoming book, Living With Pattern (Penguin Random house, $32.50, available ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Curtains can be a beautiful way to soften up a room around the windows, where they also grant functional properties like privacy and light ...