When it comes to home interiors and soft furnishings there really is a vast range of curtain and upholstery fabrics to choose from, all with varying attributes for certain applications.  To ensure you start your project off with the right foundations, you need to be selecting a fabric that is mos...

Five core fabric styles form the foundation for the vast array of curtain and upholstery fabrics you see on the market today; each presents unique characteristics and is manufactured using different techniques. You may be wondering why cotton and linen are not included here, this is because they ...

Fold Studio is a Sydney based studio designing and fabricating high-end contemporary folding room dividing screens. Stemming from a love of textiles, Pauline Ollman, founder and designer has an extensive background in the architectural and interiors industries overseas and in Australia and her st...

If you are seeking sumptuous tactility through dimension and texture, then bouclé is the fabric for you. Referring both to the yarn and the fabric made from the yarn, bouclé can be used for drapery, upholstery, or accessory fabrics and although traditionally woven from wool or mohair, it is now p...

We have a soft spot for sheep. For many, sheep are symbolic to New Zealand culture with the rearing of sheep being the backbone of the economy for many years.   Sheep farming was established in New Zealand by the 1850s and for several decades wool accounted for more than one third of New Zealand’...

As part of our wool series we hear from the helm of James Dunlop Textiles, Ben Moir, Managing Director. Ben was raised on a high country sheep station in the central South Island in the rugged landscape of the Mackenzie Country, an area synonymous with quality wool. Ben imparts his insight into g...

Christchurch based interior designer, Lisa Sinke, had a lightbulb moment one early morning.  She realised there was a gap in the market for bedheads that provide a boutique hotel bed-look and are easily purchased by consumers. Unable to find the kind of bedheads that matched her vision, she decid...

As part of our series around wool and the textile industry we focus on the design and manufacturing of woollen products providing an insight into how this amazing raw fibre is converted into highly acquired woollen fabrics for home décor and the interior design industry. Today we talk to one of N...