Jennifer Raffo, author of Fabrique Technique (Della Bella Inc., 1998), demonstrates her system for coordinating fabrics in a room. Many people use only two fabrics when decorating a room -- a print and a solid. Add variety to your decorating by following Jennifer's formula for successfully uniting three fabrics in a room in a pleasing mix of color, pattern, scale and texture. Begin by choosing an anchor fabric -- a pattern that you love, around which all the other fabrics will revolve. For your anchor fabric, choose a pattern with a minimum of three colors. Choose two more fabrics, each having one or two of the anchor fabric colors in their pattern. Vary the three fabrics in contrast. One fabric should be light, one medium and one dark. Vary the scale or size of the patterns by choosing one fabric with a large pattern, one medium and one small. Solids fall into the small-pattern category. Patterns may be curved or straight. Choose two straight patterns and one curved or two curved and one straight. A solid is considered curved or straight depending on how it is used. The ideal room would have both smooth- and rough-textured fabrics. Choose fabrics of varying texture. Most silks are smooth, whereas wool or cotton with ridges is rough. Sheen refers to the way that light is reflected from a fabric. Choose two shiny fabrics and one dull, or two dull and one shiny. Three fabrics that together reflect Jennifer Raffo's fabric-coordinating technique are a large print in dark red, green and beige, a green solid and a textured fabric in beige (figure A). The print is the anchor fabric, and the green and beige fabrics reflect its colors. The print fabric is medium-toned, with a large-scale curvy pattern and rough in texture, with a dull sheen. The green fabric is darker than the anchor fabric, with a straight, small-scale pattern, a smooth texture and a bit of sheen. The beige fabric is lighter than the anchor fabric, with a straight, small-scale pattern, a rough texture and a dull sheen. Together these three fabrics give a room an interesting mix of color, pattern, scale, texture and sheen.
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Fabrique Technique
Model: 0966634802
Author: Jennifer B. Raffo
Della Bella Inc. 1998
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