Rabbit Goody’s workshop, Thistle Hill Weavers, has spent more than 30 years preserving textile knowledge through a small custom mill in upstate New York. Its work combines Rabbit’s background as a textile historian and museum curator with old American industrial looms, producing historically accurate fabric for museums, designers and film productions.
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
Gretchen Bellinger IncFounded 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.ALBANY, NY
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
Testfabrics, IncFor more than 90 years, Testfabrics has carried Werner Klaas’s Pennsylvania textile legacy forward, earning recognition for the multifiber fabric he invented in 1940. The company still weaves that signature material in its own Pennsylvania mill, supporting repeatable colorfastness work for laboratories and textile professionals around the world.WEST PITTSTON, PA