Led by namesake owner and creative director Laura Weber, L.W. Pearl Atelier is a Manhattan textile studio creating luxury hand embroidery, machine embroidery and bespoke embellishment for fashion and interior projects. Its team brings more than 75 years of combined experience and has developed work for designers including Thom Browne and Marc Jacobs, with pieces worn by figures such as Michelle Obama, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga. The atelier handles projects from initial sampling through final production and received the 2022 CFDA FMI Grant and Nest Seal of Ethical Handcraft.
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Judy Ross TextilesKnown for refining a 2,500-year-old chain-stitch tradition, Judy Ross Textiles has spent more than 35 years working with master artisans to give handmade design a contemporary New York character. The studio develops custom textile pieces for interior designers and homeowners, pairing Judy Ross’s organic drawings with hand-dyed materials and careful embroidery.NEW YORK, 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
Atelier BolyarAtelier Bolyar is a New York textile-art studio creating hand-crafted felt pillows and large fiber art installations under founder and chief designer Kiril Kostov. Its work brings age-old textile techniques together with contemporary fabric manipulation, combining loose fibers, embroidery and hand-sewn adornment into pieces inspired by nature and historic decorative traditions. The studio also develops custom palettes and takes projects from an initial concept through production.NEW YORK, 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