A very interesting interview with one of England’s most famous Interior Designers called Tricia Guild.

Tricia built up the Designer Guild company over many years, and really led the field with her passionate use of colour, design and detail.

It was established in 1970 by Tricia Guild, and Designers Guild designs and wholesales furnishing fabrics, wallcoverings, upholstery and bed and bath collections worldwide.The company is headed and owned by brother and sister, Tricia Guild, Founder and Creative Director, and Simon Jeffreys, Group Chief Executive. The Designers Guild business philosophy is to combine creativity and innovation with the highest levels of quality: quality of design, product, service and people.

More information on DG HERE

A great amateur video taken by a guest in India which really captures life there.Here he took a tour of a fabric block-printing center and learned a lot about the textiles representative of Jaipur and the surrounding area of Rajisthan State, India
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This new video series gets right down to the basics of design in this fascinating back-to fundamentals series. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tackles real problems in real homes as he explores six themes: space, colour, light, texture and pattern, balance and order, and personality. In addition to his own in-depth experience of design principles, he calls on a colour forecaster, psychologists and a perception specialist to explain and show the science behind the how and the why of Interior Design.

Taking a real home where a design problem is all too apparent, he demonstrates some simple psychology and basic experiments in a ‘design lab’ back at the studio — and it’s all done without knocking down walls or spending large money.

Space comes under the spotlight in the first programme. Lack of space is a common problem in British house which, surprisingly, have 215 square feet less space than Japanese homes, with an average of only 1,291 square feet .

“The cardinal sin that the British indulge in beyond any other nation is the concept of agoraphobic furniture that feels it needs to keep its back against the wall at all times in case something unpleasant happens to it!” quips Laurence.

By painting the walls a paler colour, bringing the outside inside by strategically placing an eye-catching object outside the window and switching to light-reflecting flooring, the brain is deluded into thinking that the room is bigger. Suddenly, the crowded living room is calmer and seems larger — thanks to a little bit of science and the tricks of design rules.

Eye brain specialist Dr Ione Fine comments: “Half of interior design is illusion.”And on a practical note, Laurence shows why it’s better to buy a couple of two-seater sofas — because three people never sit on a three-seater!

An insight into what we do at Publisher Textiles. This video gives you an understanding of how timely the process of hand screen printing is. This particular design Botanica was done by Mark Cawood; it is a four colour print based on a poinsettia plant. This fabric is printed in-house in our Factory in Leichhardt, Sydney..Enjoy! www.publishertextiles.com.au

A great video by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on using colour in your home and the design rules to make it a success, filmed by the  BBC the video gives some great tips and advice on how to make the bets of your bedrooms and living areas.

Laurence refers to the use of colour in home decor as more than half of Britain’s top 10 colours are variations on cream and, much to Laurence’s disgust, magnolia is at No 1. His task in Design Rules is to transform a north-facing family dining room in a Victorian house which has fallen on “decorating hard times.”

Laurence is tempted by purple, which, despite being his trademark, has only been painted on walls by the designer four times over his television career. But Laurence also wants a wrap-around colour palette to really bring the room to life.

One thing that comes out is we in the UK need to be more bold and adventurous in the way we use colour and the effects of light as it hits the various shades.

Hope you enjoy and gives you some great Interior design tips.

Meet Emma Mawston, our Head Designer at Liberty Art Fabrics as she talks us through each design group in the new SS12 collection. Find out the inspiration behind each one, plus meet the Liberty Design Team as they share their favourite print from the collection with us.

The Spring Summer 2012 Liberty Art Fabrics collection was inspired by archives, antiques and costume. Colour palettes were based around mood boards created by eminent contributors to fashion, art and antiques, with prints giving a nod to the beautiful Glencot House in Somerset as well as Olympic motifs.

More on Liberty London HERE

Artisans in Rajasthan India create textiles using the ancient art of hand-blocking. So great to see the whole process from start to finish, they work so quickly but always accurate.

Rilli is among the ancient traditions of handicrafts in Sindh, the quilt made with colorful cloth pieces is used for bedding.

We just thought it was interesting for  any of our viewers in to home quilting, soft furnings for ideas and to inspire you. Some great patterns.

Their Liberty of London AW12 fabric collection is now in store, each print telling a different story.

This season the collection celebrates the innovation of the textile process through an exploration of the broad spectrum of textile techniques. The prints are inspired by historical and current textile design including block printing, weave, embroidery and needlepoint, as well as the latest digital printing techniques.

Go behind the scenes and meet the designers who created the prints in our in house studio – you’ll discover the secrets of what inspired their favourite print and how their original art work has transformed into designs now available to buy in store.

The third video in the BBC home interior design series covering Lights and Lighting . Being filmed in England this excellent film covers the particular British problem of poor light and being in the northen hemisphere in relation to Home Lighting and high quality interior design and the way it affects your home.

“Light is much more than something that lets you see. It affects the way we feel and directly influences our moods. To understand lighting you have to understand that it is more than just electrical fittings, sockets and bulbs,” says Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

His first challenge in the project house is to transform a north-facing Victorian sitting room. “You have to remember that the Victorians really didn’t trust daylight. As far as they were concerned, it was something that came into their rooms and faded their carpets or turned their ladies odd shades of brick. So they made these great barriers between them and daylight: heavy swags, tassels, fringes …”

Laurence offers practical advice and tricks of the trade for maximising daylight and transforming rooms with atmospheric and moody lighting.

The project kitchen poses a different type of challenge. Here, Laurence must create a flexible lighting scheme to cope with many different conditions. Using the unique studio Design Lab, he demonstrates how to blend three layers of light into a more stimulating, dynamic atmosphere.

The choice of bulb also affects the mood of a room, he reveals. Red- and yellow-tinted light creates an intimate, warm mood, while blue and green gives a cooler, serene mood. With over 3,000 different light bulbs on the market, Laurence asks why most people in Britain still remain loyal to the standard bulb.