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Vanessa Arbuthnott Fabrics and Wallpapers

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Vanessa Arbuthnot was founded 10 years ago, by its namesake. The company started off steadily but surely, with Vanessa designing fabrics and wallpapers in between looking after four children, rolling out the first orders on a table tennis table!

After some very good editorial coverage in Country Living magazine and the Saturday Telegraph followed by the Country Living Fair, business took off and she has never looked back.

Fabricsandpapers.com has been selling Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics and wallpapers since the early days. Vanessa Arbuthnott had always been hugely popular with customers, most especially with Emma’s interior design projects.

Her fabrics and wallpaper designs are original, traditional and brighten every room, making any house a home.

Her most popular designs at fabricsandpapers are: Lazy Daisy, French Ticking, Cow Parsley & Butterfly, Feather & Egg, Fern & Leaf and Wild Rose Linen.

Vanessa Arbuthnott’s new collection, Hand Painted.

Vanessa Arbuthnott has launched a new fabric collection after a recent visit to a small, traditional block-printing workshop.

The new collection entitled, Hand Printed is composed of three simple but effortlessly effective designs:

Life and Eternity A traditional paisley fertility symbol.

Butterfly Dance An enchanting butterfly motif.

Simple Ticking A broad ticking stripe.

The designs are hand screen-printed and hand block-printed on tactile and durable linen union, a blend of linen and organic cotton. The hand-printing process affords the designs an uncontrived, individual appearance and turns each metre of fabric into a mini work of art.

When speaking about her new collection, Vanessa Arbuthnott said: ‘I have a special affinity for hand-printed fabrics – it was, after all, how I created my very first fabrics more than 20 years ago! I find the little reminders that they have been printed by man not machine so charming: a small imperfection here, perhaps a not dead-straight line there all add to their enchantment and uniqueness.’

The gentle, relaxed style of the fabrics is enhanced by their understated colour palette, which comprises of evocatively named shades such as spinach, pigeon, sunflower, teal, brick, stone and charcoal.

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