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“.

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.

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.

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.

The World Of Interiors has proved its worth yet again with this wonderfully illustrated and written article about (and by) octogenarian textile designer Wendy Bray; today her 1950′s era art-school portfolio is being joyfully rediscovered – and reproduced – by a new generation.

Holli Zollinger’s crisply designed fabrics communicate an intriguing sense of stasis; the suggestion of motion is offset by the stillness of symmetry and the eye is left at rest.

Sophie Duran, a self-described “conceptual designer”, has created a beautiful series of scarves using digital printing on crepe de chine and silk velvet. Titled “Undiscovered Wonders of the World”, the serene and dreamlike images become both more tangible and elusive when transferred to fabric. Because her website only gives a glimpse of the project be sure to email her for the fuller catalog PDF, if interested.

Victoria Larson’s fabrics evoke an easy-going indoor / outdoor lifestyle and are punctuated by strong color and graphic clarity. She uses organic cotton and sells patterns by the yard directly from her website.

It only takes a quick read through Linda Topic’s website to know her work is driven by an almost scientific curiosity about the materials she works with. As a result, what might otherwise be presented (merely) as “decoration” takes on the aura of “specimen” instead. Above, one of her felt blankets.