Recent Decorative Project

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I thought I’d already posted this project. Apparently not.

So, catching up – My wonderful, long-term-client-turned-friend up and moved
to a new house after we’d finally finished all the work in her previous one.
I think she planned that just so we wouldn’t run out of projects.

This one exceeded our collective vision. Standing back and looking at it
completed gave us both goose-bumps. We’d been planning this for months and
knew we were going to love it, but seeing the results was still a thrill.

The over-scale damask stencil was custom designed and cut by me 🙂

1960s Javanese Batik

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My in-laws spent the mid-1960s to early 1970s in medical service on the
Indonesian island of Java. My mother-in-law returned to the US with a
collection of high-quality batik. A few days before leaving Virginia, I
spent a few hours scanning sections of some of her collection. I wish I
could scan the entire cloth so you could get the full effect. What you see
here are the small sections that fit on a standard 8.5×11 scanner.

Enjoy!

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The Great Escapes: Top 10 Pantone Colors – Fashion and Design News and Trends

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    The Great Escapes: Top 10 Pantone Colors

    The Great Escapes: Top 10 Pantone Colors

    by Rosemary Feitelberg

    Posted Tuesday September 7, 2010

    From WWD Issue 09/07/2010

    Escapism, a theme that first cropped up in Pantone’s most popular color schemes last year, is still going strong for spring. To try to help consumers forget their cares, designers tapped into hues often seen in Africa, India, Peru and Turkey. Honeysuckle topped the charts for the season’s leading color for women, followed by Regatta, Coral Rose and Beeswax. Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said, “This time, everything is a little more exotic. It really has to do with everything that is happening in the world. There is still a lot of concern about the economy and life in general. It is very natural that designers would have those things in their thought process as they choose their colors.”