International Home Textile Magazine – April’17

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3. Around the World
Inspiration
In almost all large cities in the world, people
from different ethnic backgrounds live together,
and leave a mark by sharing their different
backgrounds while cooking or making music.
They influence each other. We also travel a lot,
and bring home memories from our travels. In
this way we see a renewed interest and appreciation
in hand-made products, and old crafts
that are revived, or combined with modern
techniques. Also the different shades of wood
are important. Organic products such as leather
and suede, wood, fringes, irregularities,
old techniques sudh as shibori, wood work,
marbling, raffia, etc. are popular again. Natural
fibers are popular, such as bamboo, pineapple
fiber, seagrass etc. Sometimes we see an
unconventional combining of different weaves
and prints, of with animal prints, inspired by
African people, by Aboriginals or influences
from the Far East, especially Japan and China.
Indigo dyes, shibori techniques and other old
crafts regain popularity again. Chalk paint is
used to paint the house in an uneven way.
Colours
For this direction the colours are warm and rich
and remind us of earth colours, of clay and pottery,
or the autumn. As colours we see Amber,
Light Terra Cotta, Faded Beige, Bleached Blue,
Clay Brown, Warm Red, Peacock and Reddish
Brown. These colours can be combined as well
with the range of bright colours. Sometimes
a pink colour is added, or we see a kind of
tomato red. Brown is an important background
colour, light beige will be used to highlight a
product and may not be missed.