Bird Print Fabric

Bird Print Fabric

Vanessa has created several bird print upholstery fabrics, our feathered friends being one of her passions in life! She even has binoculars in her bedroom and bathroom windows ready to catch glimpses of the nesting Kestrels and Red Kites in their barn’s nesting boxes.

Small garden birds must be the most amazing creatures, taking weeks to create the most beautiful and intricately woven nests. Vanessa has the nest of a long tailed tit in a honey-suckle climber next to her kitchen window.

The very first bird design Vanessa created over 20 years ago now, is Cockerel and Spot. This bird fabric was inspired by the hens and cockerels in her garden. The Cockerels are very friendly ones, with stylised foliage, comb and wattle, they toss around the fabric and are interspersed with spots.

Another bird fabric, Dawn Chorus, was drawn with very simplistic garden birds showing their delightful markings of spots and stripes. This 1950s style curtain fabric is inspired by mid-century designers such as Lucienne Day. It is possible to use these designs in both children's rooms and adult spaces.

Another one is Bird Hop, which was created by Vanessa's younger daughter, Flora, and depicts a characterful and friendly bird. She created this shape by cutting straight into a piece of paper without drawing first, so this crisp spontaneous line is the result.

Song Birds fabric shows a small garden bird sitting amongst the foliage of hedgerow Dog Roses. This bird was inspired by a visit to Arbuthnott House in Scotland where I saw a very old woven silk covering a chez-long with this beautiful black bird on it - this is also available as a Wall Covering.

Branching Out and In Full Flight are two bird print fabrics that were inspired by lino cuts and printmaking. They show flying stylized birds set within a leafy trellis. These two are quite similar in design and come from the same collection, the Artists', with the Branching Out being the smaller pattern repeat of the two.

Swallow Dive and Up in the Air are soft coloured blue designs from the aptly named Sky Collection.

All these designs have interest and fascination for children and adults alike. The beautiful colours of these bird fabrics mean they can be used in all rooms in the house, whether it be vintage printed curtains in the bedroom or for the playrooms and children’s bedrooms.

These blind, upholstery bird print curtain fabrics are printed on a wonderful Linen Union. The organic cotton mixed with eco Linen is the best material for cushion covers. In addition, a lampshade made from one of these bird fabrics would be a great focal point in a room, as would a chair, cushion and even a quilt. We can make all these especially for you as part of our Made to Measure service.