When I made the decision a few years ago to begin wholesaling my individually hand printed textiles to shops around the country, I knew I’d be making a dramatic shift from printing just a few one-of-a-kind designs on textiles to building a small business based...
Now with a middle layer of polypropylene. The same fabric used in KN95 masks. She’s done it again. As goes Covid, so goes Saya. In response to Omicron and the new recommendation that we all upgrade our face coverings to N95 masks, the remarkable Saya Cullinan,...
MY WATERCOLOR SKETCHES A new design always begins with a drawing, or a painting. Or several of both. A few weeks ago, when I began playing with design ideas for a 2021 Holiday print, I created numerous watercolor sketches in a sketchbook I keep for surface designs....
In early, dreary, March of this year, when we were all still swimming upstream; feeling like life would never return to normal, grasping human contact wherever we could get it, and waiting for our turns to be vaccinated, I got a call from a writer for Edible Maine...
January 2021 My mother told me that from the time I was a very little girl I was always making something. Day and night, I perpetually had a project going; leaving behind a mess of cut paper or a bedspread stained with paint. And nothing made me happier than when my...
6.25.2020 | I began printing fabric for face masks in early May, mostly in response to the increasingly adamant counsel from those studying the science behind the Covid 19, including Maine’s CDC director, Dr. Nirav Shah. As Dr. Shah and the epidemiologists studying...
6.1.2020 | Back in March, as I was faced with the reality that my ability to market my products to retail buyers would be greatly diminished due to the shut down, it became obvious that I’d need to infuse some adrenaline into my direct-to-consumer sales. But how...
The design of each of my towels and table linens reflects my verve for color and for functional objects representative of good design. My work is inspired by a life-long passion for the natural world – by nature’s colors, patterns and form. I consider myself a...
