Textile Style: The Art of Using Antique and Exotic Fabrics to Decorate Your Home

by Caroline Clifton-Mogg

Book Overview

This volume is a showcase of designs and decorators use of textiles in their homes, with original ideas on using antique and ethnic textiles to create curtains, upholstery, bed dressings and cushions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821226843
• ISBN13: 9780821226841
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Fabric Fantasies

If you are a textile junkie as so many of us are, then Textile Style is sure to provide a fix. Lots of eye candy photos interspersed with interesting history and uses for various fabrics. The book opens with a gallery of designers and ends with a discussion of soft furnishings of every type. This book belongs in every design library.

Terrific book!

Full of ideas and facts about collecting and using textiles. Gorgeous photos. However, some ideas are highly impractical, such as laying a folded silk shawl over a chair seat or a sofa. As soon as someone sits on it, it will be wrinkled and in disarray. Some of the ideas are only for show. I would have liked more information on framing and hanging textiles, but over all the book is a worthwhile addition to my library of books on textiles.

Beautiful Fabrics, amazing Book

I recommend this book, the pictures are beautiful, the fabrics gorgeous. If you love the rich textiles, the baroque style, the silk and velvet, you won't be disappointed. This book deserves to be owned.

Exciting!!!!!!

For someone that is looking for exotic and exciting... this book gives inspiration again & again! You could even pull tidbits of inspiration from this book for a cleaner look if you know what you're looking for.

A Must for Textile Lovers

This is a fantastic design book. Beautifully photographed and organized in a sensible and intuitive way, anyone interested in design or textiles will love it. Most of the interiors pictured are in London, and there is a bias for that quirky British "more is more" style. So it you're looking for decorating inspiration for your minimalist home this book may not be very helpful. Otherwise, it's wonderful. I find myself referring to it again and again.