photo source: Harrisons of Edinburgh

Harrisons of Edinburgh has an amazing selection of what look like quality fabrics (I’ve never had the opportunity to touch). It’s been around since 1863 (That’s almost 150 years!) and was started by Sir George Harrison (the lead guitarist for the Beatles, j/k). And If you’re like me and you enjoy looking at textiles, then check out their selection. The one shown above is my favorite because of the name. It’s called the multi-millionaire and it aligns with my future goals.

pierreponthicks:

product coming in early march

I enjoy seeing the material selection process. I also just really enjoy textiles; so much so, that last year I started a site (La La Llama: http://lalallama.com) that contains thousands of material swatch images. The goal of the site was to create an online system that held not only swatches but the materials that went into the textiles. I also wanted to bring attention to textile designers because I didn’t really see them focused on anywhere else. And I think that pattern design is interesting.

I haven’t done anything with the site lately because it’s slow and I can’t bring myself to code a better way to add textiles. Managing and setting up the site did teach me a thing or two about textiles though.