Bright, cheerful, clean, and crisp are a few of the words that could describe Sian Elin’s textile designs for pillows, yardage, and tea towels. Working from Wales, and inspired by design motifs from around the globe, Elin’s small business has garnered the attention of The Guardian newspaper for her local production practices.

Textile lines (and websites) as beautiful and inspiring as this one don’t pop up every day — so when they do it’s easy to savor every pattern, color combination, and artistic flourish with extra relish.

Via Architectural Digest.

Comma Workshop fuses text and textile into quilts that are minimalist and unabashedly “crafted” at the same time. The concept, design, and written content are all the work of Kerry Larkin who founded the company in 2010. Individual quilts are made to order and are produced by a network of quilters in Colorado who move at their own pace, taking in as much or as little Comma work as they like. For more about Larkin and the company click here.

Design Milk is currently featuring a really interesting interview with Aurelie Tu, the woman behind CraftedSystems. Not only are Tu’s products beautiful and innovative, her production process is also a testament to how contemporary design and socially (and environmentally) responsible manufacturing can harmoniously co-exist.

With the same quirky and whimsical sensibility of a Wes Anderson movie, Coral & Tusk textile designer Stephanie Housley and her husband Chris Lacinak make foxes, badgers, and bears come alive with distinctly human personalities.

British textile designer Eleanor Pritchard offers a beautiful collection of blankets on her website, describing them (justly) like a sommelier would a fine wine: Incorporating tessellating geometrics, bold stripes and reversible patterns this collection is woven in a palette which combines chalky neutrals, sharp accents and deep inky tones. The aesthetic is clean and contemporary with a nod to English midcentury design.

Via Colorful Beautiful Things.

Major color and pattern by British designers Sarah Parris and Howard Wakefield. See their website here.

This post on The New York Times about Tord Boontje’s latest endeavors quickly leads the curious to the designer’s own website — and to his full display of textile inventions. Nectar is pictured above.

The handwoven fabrics produced by Chapas Textiles bring hand and eye together in a synthesis of tactile and visual delight.  Here true luxury is clearly about the subtlety of color, pattern, and texture read up close.

April’s The World of Interiors has an article on mid-century British textile designer Eileen Guthrie whose work is now being revived by her granddaughter, Lucy Mackenzie, using Guthrie’s original label, Flockhart Fabrics. The first crop of re-instated patterns is bright, whimsical — and perfectly current.