Modern Fabrics Turns One!

19 July 2008

Cake Ingredients: Maharam Names 462510 | Crimson On White
by Alexander Girard, 1957
Well folks, thanks to you we are pleased to celebrate Modern Fabrics’ one year anniversary! With your support, we continue to offer you sought after fabrics at reasonable prices, prompt delivery, and attentive customer service.

James + Ewa
Photo by Randy Harris for ReadyMade
You have helped us do something positive with these discarded fabrics. By incorporating these fabrics into your own projects, you have helped reduce demand for new manufactured goods, reduce waste, and reduce energy consumption. Thank you for all of your encouragement and support!

We would also like to thank several organizations and individuals who have helped us create, shape, and promote Modern Fabrics.


John Boatwright | programmer, animator/illustrator, all-around good guy!
Most importantly, we would like to thank John Boatwright of Winkbox. John is Ewa’s partner in their graphic and web design company. He has been instrumental in executing our ideas through his creative problem solving and technical savvy. John continues to keep our website and shopping experience running smoothly! Cheers John!

We would also like to thank ReadyMade’s editor Julia Cosgrove and photo editor Julia Diamond for recognizing our efforts and introducing Modern Fabrics to a national creative community. Writer Jodi Helmer and photographer Randy Harris exceeded all our expectations in capturing and presenting Modern Fabrics to you.


Randy Harris | Photographer
Most recently, Apartment Therapy’s very creative design blogger Kyle Elizabeth Freeman introduced Modern Fabrics to the wonderful AT online design community. When she is not writing for Apartment Therapy, Kyle is a Professional Organizer and Interior Redesigner who transforms our unsightly dead spaces into wonderful, welcoming and inspiring environments. You will be amazed by her before/after sequences of interior redesign projects on her Cloud 9 Organize & Redesign website. Thank you Kyle!


Finally, we would like to thank the numerous individuals who continuously help us locate sources of unwanted fabric locally and throughout the Southeast (and as far as Texas)! Thank you for your diligence and taking the time to contact us with tips and resources. If you folks were not concerned about these fabrics ending up in our landfills, Modern Fabrics would have a very difficult time rescuing them. Our hats off to you!


Thank you all!!!
James + Ewa Powell

— The Modern Fabrics Team

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Apartment Therapy Features Modern Fabrics!

8 July 2008

We are very pleased to welcome devoted readers of Apartment Therapy to Modern Fabrics!

Modern Fabrics was recently featured on AT, a website and community devoted to well designed and crafted interior environments.

“Employing fabric, like paint, is one of the easiest ways to dramatically change the look and feel of a space. Unfortunately the textile industry has one of the worst eco-profiles of all the houseware industries. Finding secondhand fabrics in any sizable yardage is difficult at best. Thankfully, a couple in North Carolina started a brilliant business to bring you reclaimed high-end designer fabrics at low-end prices…”

If you are not yet acquainted with Apartment Therapy, it will soon become your resource for creating smart, wonderful spaces. Below is Apartment Therapy’s mission which we find very refreshing!

The Apartment Therapy Mission:

Helping people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy by connecting them to a wealth of resources, ideas and community online.
What We Believe

A calm, healthy, beautiful home is a necessary foundation for happiness and success in the world.

Creating this home doesn’t require large amounts of money or space. It requires inspiration, connection to resources and motivation to do something about it.

The basic elements of good home design can be learned and achieved by all.

Simplicity and luxury are not mutually exclusive.

Our Goal:

To connect people to the resources they need to improve their homes, while reducing their reliance on stuff.

Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
November, 2007

Click on the link below to peruse Apartment Therapy’s latest features:

— The Modern Fabrics Team

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NeoCon 2008 Photo Set: Modern Fabrics

19 June 2008

This fabric is available in our store:
Oda by Kvadrat for |m|a|h|a|r|a|m|

Click on the images to open the Flickr photo sets.

Here are the latest photos of our visit to NeoCon 2008 in Chicago, June 7 – 12. Click on the images to open the Flickr photo sets.

Click on the images to open the Flickr photo sets.

We will offer several of the fabrics found on the showroom pieces in our store for purchase! Enjoy!

Click on the images to open the Flickr photo sets.

This fabric is available in our store:
Luna Textiles Pearls SPL-852 : Nacre

— The Modern Fabrics Team

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Charles and Ray Eames Postage Stamp

18 June 2008

Commemorative sheet of 16 42¢ Charles and Ray Eames stamps.

| Click image to order your stamps! |

On June 17, 2008, in Santa Monica, California, the Postal Service™ issued 42–cent commemorative stamps Charles and Ray Eames in a commemorative sheet featuring 16 different designs.

Honoring the husband-and-wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames, this commemorative sheet of 16 stamps was designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, and represents the breadth of their extraordinary body of creative work, which includes architecture, furniture, film and exhibits.

These stamps were designed by the remarkable Derry Noyes, who design many of the stamps for the US Post Office. The first inklings of this possibility were 10 or 12 years ago when we (I am wearing my Eames Office hat here) first answered a request for research images.

There is a wonderful familial connection there, as Derry is the daughter of Eli Noyes, who was an extremely close friend of Charles and Ray’s and the director of design at IBM.

Slowly over this time period it blossomed to a full on set of 16 stamps to celebrate the richness of Charles and Ray’s work. We see the Eames House, La Chaise, the Lounge Chair, Crosspatch, House of Cards, the film Tops and more.

- Eames Demetrios (grandson of Charles & Ray)

— The Modern Fabrics Team

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Modern Fabrics Hits Chicago:

7 June 2008

Ewa and I are in Chicago this week to visit family, take in the sites, scour NeoCon and the satellite galleries and shows, and enjoy the weather before things heat up!

We love visiting this town and getting re-energized for the coming season. I will report what we did and saw in the coming week.

— The Modern Fabrics Team

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