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From mossy velvets to light-filtering, linen open-weaves and paper silks, Rose Uniacke is delighted to present 38 new artisanal fabrics in 14 fabric families.

Seen above is the Rose Uniacke Club Amrchair upholstered in Mohair Velevt in Glade.

Although these are fabrics that come from a long tradition of making, taking inspiration, in some cases, from the archives of the specialist French silk mill, founded in 1850, or from antique linens in Rose’s own collection, they speak directly of the natural world from which their fibres came.

There are cobweb-fine silks, with names like Moonlight, woven with a specialist Japanese thread that disappears in the finishing, leaving a texture that is intermittently open to light.

There are paper yarns, made with manila hemp, spun in Japan and woven on traditional looms, in combination with raw silk. Again the result is a fabric that plays with transparency and opacity, a fabric that, if hung, will stripe and dapple a room with light.

Seen above is the Rose Uniacke Drawing Room Sofa upholstered in Textured Linen in Grain and silk curtains in Silkworm. 

There are nubbled linens with a deliberately irregular weave like soft bark. There are linens for upholstery, inspired by French grain sacks; durable Belgian linens developed with an artisanal mill which spins all its yarns in house. There are pigment-dyed textured linens, that resemble lichens on stone; and high-piled wool velvets that look like the deepest mosses.

These exquisite, artisanal fabrics in their range of soft colours and quiet complexity, bring the patterns and textures of the natural world into the home - all the sustaining beauty of stone and lichen and moss, all the peaceful energy of moonlight and dappled sun.

Discover the collection here.