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07/29/2026

07/28/2026

Every great collaboration has a beginning.
For Karen Robert and Eve Ashcraft, it started with a shared creative vision and evolved into something neither could have created alone.

In this clip from Behind the Collection, they share how the creative partnership behind the Curious Eve collection first came to life.

Read full via the Link In Bio

07/08/2026

This Stain Story is MESSY.
Antiques dealer Margaret Schwartz loves old things. Her newly adopted pup, Rocky, not so much.

Not long after moving into her Upper East Side treasure chest, Rocky made himself right at home and left a very big mess on one of her vintage hair-on-hide rugs.

If you’re a pet lover, you already know how this story goes.

Link In Bio for the full Stain Story.

06/08/2026

Two designers, one phone call, and a shared refusal to be polite about it.
When Karen Robert of and color expert started talking, the politeness lasted about three days.

Then came the now-famous lunch: “I could be really coy here, but I really want to do a collection with you.”

The result is Curious Eve. Klimt, Viennese Secession, jewel tones, monkeys, and one very loose painted hill that started as eight little sheets of black ink on white paper before it became wallpaper.

Eve painted by hand and photographed everything. Karen layered, stretched, and composited it all digitally, then printed it on grass cloth where the ink, in Eve’s words, feels embedded in the surface. The same hills even resurface inside the monkey mural, the kind of thing that only happens when two people are talking constantly.

“Collaboration does great things to time,” Karen says. “It always makes me feel like I’ve had a bigger experience than I would have had on my own.”

Full conversation on the blog. Link in bio.

05/01/2026

Let’s talk about IKAT!
Not a print, not a conventional tie-dye, ikat is one of the oldest textile techniques in the world, where the yarns themselves are tied off and dyed before a single thread hits the loom.

In this episode of Textile Facts, we break it down.
That signature blurry, directional pattern you see in ikat fabrics comes from the process itself. Bundles of yarn are bound with thread or water-resistant tape, dipped in dye, and the bound sections resist the color. Unbind, rebind, redip, and you start building those complex multicolored designs.

Then it all gets woven into cloth, with the pattern already living inside the threads. The blur isn’t a flaw, it’s the fingerprint of the technique.

If you’re into textiles, design, or just love knowing how things are made, follow along for more behind the scenes fabric magic.
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