Textile style - Caroline Clifton-Mogg

Textile Style shows how to decorate with antique and exotic fabrics to make a home warm, lively and distinctive. The book captures some of the world’s most imaginative and unusual interiors, where beautiful old fabrics are used with great style and flair. Here are rooms buzzing with colour, pattern and texture – a rich source of ideas for using everything from old linen sheets to scraps of silk embroidery in clever and original ways.

Within their weaves, colours and patterns, textiles contain the story of interior decoration, and Caroline Clifton-Mogg delves into their history to encourage an understanding and a love of the great variety of world fabrics. She relates how our ancestors – whether in the Far East, Europe or the Americas – used textiles to embellish their surroundings and how we might adapt their ideas today. She also uses her expertise and her own love of fabrics to suggest many imaginative ideas for their use around the home.

Professional decorators understand the importance of including unusual textiles – the antique, ethnic, hand painted, rare – in their designs, as accents to the scheme or to set the theme for a whole room. Here, some of their secrets are uncovered in specially commissioned photos that capture stunning combinations of colours and texture.

This book is a real inspiration: a fascinating read and a photographic insight into the interior of textiles.