The Best Fabric for a Sofa: A Complete Buying Guide
It’s a material world when it comes to choosing a durable sofa fabric. We take you through the options to make your decision making process just a little bit easier...
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The Best Fabric for a Sofa: A Complete Buying Guide
It’s a material world when it comes to choosing a durable sofa fabric. We take you through the options to make your decision making process just a little bit easier...
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Velvet Fabric Guide: How to Choose, Use and Style Velvet
Design, durability and longevity are the cornerstones of this deluxe textile
Velvet Curtain Fabric: How to Choose, Hang and Style it
Few fabrics transform a room quite like velvet, bringing together softness, depth of colour and a beautifully luxurious drape
How to Choose Curtain Fabric: A Complete Guide
Discover how to choose the right curtain fabric – whether linen, velvet, woven or printed – balancing light, proportion and practicality to create a scheme that feels both considered and...
Helter Skelter – One Design, Many Expressions
We explore how this lively botanical design became one of Linwood’s most recognisable patterns – and how its flowing motif works beautifully across printed velvet and linen fabric, designer wallpaper...
The Beauty of Restraint: Why Plain and Semi-Plain Fabrics are Key to Timeless Interiors
Elegant, adaptable and quietly confident – the right plain fabrics can transform a room without ever shouting for attention
Decorating with Orange: Warm, Joyful Fabrics for Interiors
From sunlit corals to rich terracottas, orange fabrics for interiors bring warmth, personality and effortless optimism – especially when layered through printed linens, textured weaves and sumptuous velvets on sofas,...
Texture in Interiors: Why Tactility is the New Luxury
The most inviting homes today are sensory, layered and irresistibly touchable – here’s how to create that feeling with beautifully textured fabrics
Embroidered Fabrics: Bringing Texture and Storytelling into the Home
There’s a poetry to embroidery – each stitch adding depth and character. Titania translates that spirit into today’s interiors
Autumn Interiors 2025: Colours for the Season Revealed – and What to Look Out for in 2026
The season’s most beautiful shades, decoded: from earthy, cocooning tones to the quietly romantic colours set to shape 2026
Seasonal Shift: Purple Tones for Autumn and Winter Interiors
Why aubergine, plum and damson are the defining colourways for home decor this season and beyond, according to interiors journalist Rhoda Parry.
Folk Art Fabrics: Celebrating Global Craft Traditions in Modern Interiors
Looking for interiors with soul? Folk art fabrics are back – bold, beautiful, and brimming with history
Inside the Studio: How Linwood’s Printed Linens Go from Sketch to Sofa – A Story of British Fabric Design
Discover how creativity, colour, and craft unite in Linwood’s studio – bringing distinctive British fabrics to life
Plain Velvet: Texture, Colour and Lasting Style
Plain velvet fabric is the luxurious texture designers rely on for mood, colour and practicality, says interiors expert Rhoda Parry
Harvest Tones: Bringing Warmth into the Home with Ochre, Tobacco and Rust
Rich, golden and endlessly adaptable, these hues prove that warmth and sophistication can go hand in hand
The Art of the Cushion: Linwood’s Luxury Handmade Collection in Printed Linen & Velvet
Painterly, playful and proudly British – meet the designer cushions that are rewriting the rules