Soane on Fabrics

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SOANE   founder LULU LYTIE has developed the company's first fabric collection with the look of documents and lost & found scraps from ancient textile pieces. A number of the fabrics in the SOANE collection are hand-printed or woven in the UK.

The Damascus Stripe comes vibrantly to life in Soane's styling (above). I love the very pink walls & the textile lamp shade & textile fragment hanging on the wall-all set on a larger looking version of the fabric- a stripe rug.

Damascus Stripe is a silk based on a 19th Century Syrian original

The Leon de Smet painting- Little Girl at the Table inspired-

A PATCHWORK OF SOANE'S COLLECTION

Symi

This Soane piece Symi -a handprinted linen,could have been plucked right out of the Avedon photograph-

My favorite from the SOANE Collection- PAW PRINT

Paw Print is inspired by an African print from the 1940's or 1950's.

Ottoman Scribe -another Soane hand printed linen

Panel from kaftan

Ottoman Scribe was inspired by a photograph in LULU LYTIE's  book of antique photographs from North Africa

in a recent Vogue- Lulu Lytle said "I wanted the fabrics to feel as if they were the continuation of an antique fragment I might stumble across in a souk or bazaar" -

 What do you sell O ye merchants ?
Richly your wares are displayed.

Turbans of crimson and silver,
Tunics of purple brocade,
Mirrors with panels of amber,
Daggers with handles of jade.

What do you make,O ye goldsmiths?
Wristlet and anklet and ring,
Bells for the feet of blue pigeons
Frail as a dragon-fly’s wing,
Girdles of gold for dancers,
Scabbards of gold for the king.

What do you weave, O ye flower-girls
With tassels of azure and red?
Crowns for the brow of a bridegroom,
Chaplets to garland his bed.
Sheets of white blossoms new-garnered
To perfume the sleep of the dead

from in the Bazaars of Hyderabad-Sarojini Naidu

SOANE images are linked throughout this post-as is their website-

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