Always Textiles in My Life Story
I began sewing when I was 13 and won the school fashion contest for my bermuda shorts and blouse. Sewing dresses helped put me through college and working in India I designed textiles and became enamored of the block printing process, starting a men's shirt company using their textiles.
Though I loved working in 7th Ave. fashion houses the scheduling was impossible when having children demanded I be home by 6! So, I began looking into making pillows and after some time discovered the joy of a pillow made with exquisite antique textiles and beautiful trimmings from France and England. Eventually, Barbra Streisand put some of my pillows into her movie "The Mirror has Two Faces" and Bergdorf Goodmans began selling my pillows on the 7th floor. Pillow Works sales were excellent and the orders continued for 10 years, until Neiman's bought Bergdorf's.
Over the years my personal textile joy is with the hand made and hand loomed pieces from the past. Some will never be made again and even the techniques used to create them are lost to time, but certainly the skills required to make them are lost. And, this is the reason I enjoy offering them to you so that you too may have them in your homes and know that many are very unique and were not made by a machine. Or, if made by an old machine the process has stopped. For example, I have yet to find a contemporary silk brocade from India or China that begins to be of equal quality to the brocades made in France up to the 1970's. So, take delight in these rarely found textiles and when buying know that I too appreciate them as much.
