Udd revitalizes traditional Indian apparel with bold patterns and near-electric hues. Next up, fabric by the yard? The audience could be huge.

Via Sound Horn Please.

Splitting its stock almost equally between ethereally light dohar blankets and weather worn kantha throws, Mela & Roam should satisfy anyone with an eye toward Indian bedding.

Polly Barton is one of eleven contemporary textile artists whose work will be featured in The Textile Museum’s upcoming exhibition, “Sourcing The Museum” (3/23/12 – 8/19/12). Under the direction of Jack Lenor Larsen, the show’s contributing artists were invited to create new works in direct response to the inspirational contents of the museum’s rich historical collection. Both new and old works will be on display, creating a visual dialogue that the museum subtitles “museum as muse”.

Above, Barton’s 35″ square double ikat called “Blue Veil“.

In the category of “wildly decorative flange detail” Julia B.’s “Calles” sham takes the cake. Scroll to the bottom of the company’s news page for a shot of the full pillow.

The work of textile designer Zina de Plagny (1914-2000) lives on in licensing to the fashion and interior design industry (e.g.  fashion Nina Ricci and Surface View). For tokens of her cheery aesthetic visit the e-boutique of her estate; here you’ll find the scarf pictured above.

Via Design Wonderland.

The website for Mark Sublette’s Medicine Man Gallery offers an amazing visual overview of Native American textiles and provides a glimpse at the steep prices attached to this highly collectible market. Many of the graphically bold works, like the 19th century Navajo blanket (partially) pictured above, are ripe for contemporary inspiration and application.

This wool tapestry by Alan Davie (shown cropped above) is a jewel among a handful of “Interiors” auctions containing carpets and textiles at Christie’s this month. Davie’s short Wikipedia biography describes a very full artistic life happily outside the mainstream. And at 92 it sounds like he’s still going strong: “Davie is currently working on a 40 metre watercolour which he calls his great masterpiece. He has sworn that it will be complete before he dies.”

Longtime decorative painter Idarica Gazzoni is now designing fabrics and wallpapers infused with old-world motifs and color palettes, like “Turkish Moon” on Tussah silk pictured above.

Via Elle Decor, March 2012.

Kinnasand, a well-established Scandinavian textile company, is doing interesting things with laser cutting and seaming — as shown with their Hikari fabric above. (Go to “textiles”, then “specials” for more examples.) It’s all about structure, draping and concept — enough to inspire passing thoughts of aspirational minimalism.

It’s hard to say what’s more alluring, the entirely re-imagined Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair or the Scholten & Baijings blanket on display.

Via Design Milk. In addition, here’s an interesting interview with the duo — and here’s a link to more product.