Embellish Fabrics

10 Ways to Embellish Fabric

1. Opt for a contrasting welt on upholstery.
2. Add nail heads in a shiny or antiqued finish to chairs, ottomans, or sofas.
3. Personalize pillows, linens, and chair backs with a monogram.
4. Line the skirt of a chair with fringe.
5. Contrast basic fabric with colorful thread or twine in the seams.
6. Use metal grommets as curtain rings.
7. Glue or sew ribbon as a border for a decorative touch.
8. Make a pillow with fine fabric on one side and basic fabric on the other.
9. Stencil numbers or initials on curtains, pillows, or throws with fabric paint.
10. Don't do a thing―let the natural beauty of the material speak for itself.

Notice the Details

Formal dining room chairs have a more relaxed feel with neutral linen slipcovers. The half skirt still reveals each chair's turned legs, while simple ties add a custom dressmaker detail.

Learn to Love Burlap ...

Give burlap a chance, and you'll see why this often underrated fabric is a design favorite. No longer reserved for potato sacks, burlap packs intense texture at a gentle price.
Because it holds its shape well, it makes great curtains. Mixed with bright white walls and traditional antiques, it's an unexpected element that adds an organic touch.



Muslin

Hang a breezy fabric like muslin or gauze over a bed for an ultraromantic canopy. When hung directly from the ceiling, the fabric creates the illusion of more height and is a fresh, modern take on the traditional mosquito net.

Loosen Up

Make furniture stylish and family friendly with loose skirts or slipcovers. The beauty of this treatment lies in its simplicity: The chair or sofa can show off its silhouette and looks best when loosely covered in plain, unfussy fabric such as linen, cotton, or canvas. Plus, slipcovers can easily be removed and laundered.

Monogram It

Use monograms to turn basic linen or cotton fabrics into heirlooms. While initials are customary, you can use letters or names―or try something new: We've seen addresses, street names, and design motifs adorning everything from porch furniture to table linens.

Piana

The Loro Piana name has become synonymous with the manufacture of exquisite cashmere products. For six generations, the Italian maker has maintained access to the world's most valued raw materials, and in recent decades it has assumed a proactive position to replenish those resources as part of its business model. Today, those exclusive fibers found in clothing and accessories are available in a wide range of interior products, bringing the same sophisticated Loro Piana lifestyle into the home. "The Loro Piana Interiors fabrics were created to enable Loro Piana's customers to furnish and 'dress' interiors with the same refined quality and attention to detail as they dress themselves," says Pier Luigi, the current chairman of the company.
Originally from Trivero, Italy, the Loro Piana family started as wool merchants early in the nineteenth century. In 1924, the current company, Ing. Loro Piana & C., was founded by Pietro Loro Piana in Quarona in Northern Italy. By 1941, Pietro's nephew, Franco, had assumed responsibility for the company and after the war, the firm began to establish its reputation as a supplier of superior wool and cashmere textiles for a growing haute couture industry.
Whether it's a yard of fabric or a cashmere scarf, the common thread that links Loro Piana's textiles and garments is the use of the most exclusive fibers, sourced from three continents. With facilities in Mongolia and China, which is now the world's largest producer of raw cashmere, Loro Piana has control over every step in the process.Manufacturing begins with fibers that come from the adult cashmere goat. In Mongolia, baby Hyrcus goats provide a higher-caliber cashmere that is harvested from combing the soft undercoat. Since this is done between the ages of three and twelve months, it can occur only once. From this has come one of the company's proprietary fabrics, known as Baby Cashmere®, which is used throughout the line in both clothing and interiors.

Haute Couture Collection/Paris

It's MAGIC !

Floating lightness of a setting sun (SOGNI Orange),
Reflections of real and unreal images (SOGNI Mirror),
Profundity of a black lacquer (SOGNI Black),
Delusive intangibility of the entirely transparent version (SOGNI Crystal).
The materials are mirror, transparent and coloured polycarbonates, each version gives a very surprising and different rendering...
Each model has its own essential design, terse and resolutely in style.

Below the REF "CLEOPATRE", "ALADIN and "VENDOME', from the HAUTE COUTURE COLLECTION.


CLEOPATRE

ALADIN

SOGNI STRAW

This above photograph displays the straw marquetery tiebacks ref: "SOGNI Straw Marq', it is made in collaboration with the "Best Craftsman" of this technique in France. (like the 'LIVING TREASURES" of Japan honored for their preservations of ancient arts). When the best "Ouvrier de France" (best craftsman) in Straw Marquetrie demonstrates his love for the matter, she allows us to witness the birth of a brand new challenge, an unprecedented demand for quality, and an implementation of the French Savoir Faire. She applies the same tehniques as wood marqueterie to rye straw, a French XVIIth Century tradition and incorporated her design into numbers of cases, chests, boxes and nice pieces of furniture.

VENDOME

REMY LEMOINE ask Serge OLIVARES to dress his refined tie backs with his fabrics, accessories and ornaments.
The result is the.... HAUTE CUTURE collection of Tiebacks : Bright color velvets, Fur, feathers, ancient embroideries on silk, stones, crown of strass, embroideries, haberdasheries, hot pink braids? poetry of shades of anis green or aquamarine?.“


Featured Collection /Designer
REMY LEMOINE



Remy had the pleasure to exibit in the space designed by JANNA BULLOCK for Art, Architecture, and Design during The "2009 HAMPTON DESIGNERS SHOWHOUSE /NY" .
Will be displayed : the straw Tiebacks « SPIRA SPE » and the wrought iron curtain hanger « PORAM ».
This year's showhouse is located at :
179 David's Lane
Water Mill, NY.
From July 26 to September 6

Hampton Designers showcase


REMY LEMOINE PASSEMENTERIE D'ART/ PARIS 09 65 31 81 52
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As the other tiebacks in Remy's collection, he will rework the design with the craftsmen according to the design/decoration and wishes of the interior designer to integrate the design and color palette to their individual specifications. Creating a lovely design addition and great conversational piece to their custom decor.