At its Brooklyn Army Terminal mill, family-owned EFS Designs creates luxurious hand-printed fabrics and wall coverings for designers and luxury brands. The company has spent three decades pairing New York craftsmanship with in-house screen engraving and custom hand-mixed color matching, including reproductions of historic textile designs. EFS also uses a 100% electric heat-setting oven and nontoxic water-based inks in its production work.
Tillett TextilesTillett Textiles makes hand-printed fabrics and wallcoverings, including readily available and bespoke archival designs. Its production uses hand-mixed colors, silk screens, drag boxes, and printing on linen, cotton, blends, and silk substrates in the United States.New York, NY
Carolyn Ray IncFor 40 years, Carolyn Ray Inc has turned a fine-art sensibility and observations of nature into original fabrics and wallcoverings for interiors. Its Rockland County, New York studio brings design and production together, handpainting and experimenting with materials to create richly layered surfaces, including made-to-order solutions and one-of-a-kind art pieces. The company’s award-winning work belongs to the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.YONKERS, NY
Chapas Textiles, IncFrom its Brooklyn studio, Chapas Textiles creates bespoke hand-woven fabrics for the interiors trade, tailoring each pattern, color and yardage to a specific project. Founded by hand weaver Tara Chapas in 2008, the studio draws on a family weaving tradition from Evoia, Greece, while its fabrics are made in the United States by trained American artisans. Its project-by-project collaboration connects interior designers directly with textile artisans, and a portion of profits supports small-business loans for artisans around the world.BROOKLYN, NY
FRET FabricsFounded in 2010 by artist and woven technical designer Julie Kaminska, Fret Fabrics is a Long Island luxury design house creating fabrics for professional interiors and restoring historic textiles, wallpapers, and trims. Kaminska’s background at the Scalamandré mill informs the studio’s unusual ability to recreate period materials from archival fragments or even black-and-white photographs. Its preservation work includes collaborations with Sunnylands, the Mark Twain House, and the White House.GLEN HEAD, NY