With a product line populated by owls, elephants and birds – among other creatures – Ferm Living’s emphasis is on fun, especially for children and their design-conscious parents. For adults (and serious children!) they have a great assortment of strong graphic patterns for pillows and bedding. Their wares are best displayed in their print catalog.

Via Notes To A Further Excuse.

Lisa Fontanarosa, who represents Adam & Viktoria along with other exceptional artisans, describes the textile company this way:

Inspired by the secret gardens of children’s fairy tales, the Swedish duo Adam & Viktoria create textiles, decorative cushions, cubes, screens, and tables that dare to be different. Pre-Raphaelite colors: ruby roses, peacock blues, and brilliant jades combined with fruit and floral motifs pleasingly plucked from vintage wallpapers and Oriental rugs, turn them into painterly works that transcend time.

Definitely.

Via C Magazine.

Happy, hand block-printed bedding by Serena & Lily.

Via Elle Decor.

The Australian textile company Castle exuberantly expresses prismatic joie de vivre with their bedding, pillows, and textile art. Above, “7 Spot Sunshine” with felt on wool.

Via Claire Newell.

In her current collection entitled “Found Projections”, Dorte Agergaard brings bald photographic realism to the vehicle with which many of us try to escape reality entirely — the pillow.

With their simultaneously timeless and cutting-edge patterns for scarves, shawls and throws, Meghan Price and Lysanne Latulippe (the Canadian duo behind String Theory) construct meta-visualizations that explore “textile” as a concept both in theory and practice. In doing so the woven becomes the knit — and vice versa. Above, their String Theory throw in grey.

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.

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.

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.

Cascada, an Australian company, is one of the leading producers of Cashllama blankets, throws and accessories. Dubbed the “cashmere of the Andes”, Cashllama (TM) is the result of a patented processing technique that transforms the inner coats of Bolivian llamas into a fiber that (they say) is stronger, lighter and warmer than cashmere. — Now if only there was a texture app that allowed us to feel it through our screens…