“Dara” is a new classic from Manuel Canovas. Produced in three colorways, it’s a traditional Indian hunting scene updated with enough graphic clarity and brightness of color to make it feel both timeless and modern.

Edit is a fabric line by Sharyn Storrier Lyneham, a former editor of Vogue Living. Her patterns are, in the very best of ways, different. They’re different from other things on the market and they’re very different from one to the next, within her own line. Several of her designs incorporate photographs of objects, architecture and nature but it’s her painterly Giraffes pattern above that I like the most. In the U.S., Edit can be purchased through Studio Four NYC.

It’s hard not to love a fabric company with a beloved pet in its name. Check out the stylish duo here, and their budding fabric line here.

The British furniture company Soane now offers a small selection of fabrics, the range of which will surely expand in seasons to come. Paw Print (pictured above) was inspired by an African fabric from the 1940′s or ’50′s and is hand-printed on linen.

In the U.S., Soane fabrics can be purchased through Jasper in Los Angeles.

The work of Suzanne Tucker, one of San Francisco’s blue-chip decorators, embodies a certain strain of old-school reserve and elegance done expertly well. As a result her fabric line is a microcosm of sorts — a kind of anthropology of persistent classical motifs including toile, animal prints and palms. It’s Downton Abbey 2012.

A handful of seemingly unrelated  references have led me repeatedly to The Bloomsbury Group this week — and most recently to a new fabric collection from Sanderson called Bloomsbury Canvas. Depending on both colorway and design the prints swing wildly between reservation and flamboyance. An example of the latter is pictured above.

Via Angel + Blume.

A perfect instance for the phrase “riot of color”, this exuberant pattern – called Amrapali – is from Designers Guild’s latest collection.

It may be no more than a micro-trend, but watercolor-like prints seem to be emerging from a range of fabric lines this year. A new 2011 pattern called Grenadines from Etamine is pictured above; other examples include Malvasia from Rubelli and Encantada from Elitis.

The Autumn 2011 issue of Cover is now in circulation and with it comes an article by yours-truly about the current trend toward vibrant, acidic greens in textile design. As featured in the article, one of my favorite new patterns for 2011 is Christiopher Farr’s Dancers, featured above.

Above, “Francesca” by Amanda Nisbet, part of her new fabric collection represented by Holland & Sherry. It’s a cross-over classic in three colorways.