Founded on Gretchen Bellinger’s landmark 1976 collection, Gretchen Bellinger Inc. creates distinctive woven fabrics for interiors, from classic weaves to highly detailed embroidered designs. Based in Albany, New York, the company’s nearly five decades of textile design include fabrics held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts.
YOMA Textiles, IncFounded in New York’s SoHo district in 1987 by Kathryn Hinkle and Lee Olson, YOMA Textiles creates woven fabrics for residential, contract, and hospitality interiors. The women-owned small business is known for an integrated collection shaped by Olson’s design work and for developing custom fabrics, including new designs and exact color matches, through long-standing relationships with textile mills around the world. YOMA now operates from Manhattan’s historic Bennett Building and has built a nationwide network of designers, showrooms, and project partners.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