| DesignTex,_Inc USA. Designers of fabrics for upholstery and furnishing of commercial and institutional interiors. |
| Dessigraf_SA Spain. Textile design studio, specialised in multiple printing techniques for bedding and home textiles. English and Spanish. |
| Diane_Harrison_Designs,_Ltd UK. Surface pattern design studio. |
| DOT_Studio,_Inc USA. Textile surface design studio for custom woven, knitted and printed fabrics, and textile products for apparel and furnishing applications. |
| Dutch_Textile_Design The Netherlands. Group of design studios and individual designers, specialised in textile and surface design for the interior and automotive textiles, wallcoverings, fashion, paper, ceramics and plast |
| EL_Design_Studio,_LLC Full service textile design studio catering to the carpet and rugs, home decoration and apparel fabrics industries. |
| Ella_Doran_Design,_Ltd UK. Versatile design company, active in wallpapers, decorations, textiles, ceramics and paper, homewares and furnishings. Extensive gallery of designs. |
| Emily_Sherwill UK. Designer of printed, stitched, felted, devore and collage textiles. Gallery of designs. Links to related sites. |
| FabRose_Textiles UK. Textile and surface decoration design studio, specialised in silk screen printing and illustration. Gallery of designs. Links to related sites. |
| Gene_Brown, USA. Textile designer, specialised in rotary flat bed printing techniques. Extensive on-line portfolio. |
| Habu_Textiles,_LLC USA. Weaving studio and showroom for Japanese hand woven textile fabrics and ribbons, from a wide variety of fibers. Extensive technical information. On-line purchasing facility. |
| Heike_Schick_Design Germany. Design studio, specialised in surface design for interior textiles, paper, and porcelain, clay and glass. Links to partner sites. English and German. |
| Helena_Gavshon UK. Creative textile design studio specialising in contemporary and vintage textile designs. |
| Hoffman_California_Fabrics USA. Design and marketing of screen printed cotton fabrics for apparel, craft and quilting applications. Extensive print designs galleries. Links to craft and quilting related sites. |
| Idea_Jacquard_Srl Italy. Design studio for jacquard woven fabrics for the home furnishing industry. Also, consulting services for fabric construction, weave patterns, yarns and colors. English and Italian. |
| Ilka_White_Studio Australia. Design and manufacture of hand crafted textile fabric art works. |
| Jutta_Heckelmann Germany. Free lance design studio for textile and interior markets, ceramics, wallpaper, carpets and apparel. English and German. |
| Karen_Combs USA. Independent designer of quilting fabrics. Gallery of quilt designs. Links to books, patterns and tools. |
| Karl_Hast_Design Germany. Studio for wallpaper and textile design, utilizing traditional painting and silk screen printing techniques. Catalog of designs, and list of exhibitions. English and German. |
| Karoliina_LiinaLommi Finland. Design studio for hand felted wall hangings and textile art. |
| Kaytech_Systems India. Digital textile design studio, specialised in traditional, transitional and contemporary surface designs for apparel and furnishing fabrics. Catalog of downloadable designs. On-line purchasing. |
| Kirsten_Thoerle Collection of original handcrafted fabrics combining embroidery, tie-dye, serigraphy, embossed fabrics, weaving, knitwear, transfer, printed and hand painted fabrics. |
| Korda_Designs UK. Studio for surface design of wallpapers, murals, apparel and fashion accessories, upholstery and furnishings, bedding products and packaging materials. |
| Korpi_&_Gordon Finland. Textile design and printing company, active in soft furnishings, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom linens and towels. Also, hand printing of cotton and linen fabrics. Extensive design galleries. |
| Kyntex Mexico. Textile design studio, specializing in bedding and furnishing. Also, technical machine servicing, and distributors of jacquard software for weaving processes. English, Spanish and German. |
| Laura_Baggott UK. Designer of printed and knitted textiles. Extensive gallery of designs. Calendar of events. |
| Laurie_dill-Kocher USA. Designer of site specific fiber art tapestries, quilts and vessels for commercial, religious and residential settings. Extensive designs galleries. |
| London_Portfolio USA. Design studio for apparel, home furnishings, and paper and stationery products. |
| Lori_Weitzner_Designs,_Inc USA. Design studio active in textiles, floor coverings, packaging, tableware, fashion accessories and healthcare products. Gallery of designs, including woven fabrics for curtains and draperies. Links |
| Luisa_Cevese_Riedizioni Italy. Design and manufacture of bags, kitchen textiles and soft murals, from fiber, yarn and textile, and plastic materials wastes. |
| Lunn_Fabrics,_Ltd USA. Textile design studio, specialised in batik, hand dyed and printed fabrics, and hand quilting arts. Galleries of quilt and fabric designs, and sculptures. Links to related sites. |
| Lynne_Heller Canada. Web site designer and textile artist, specialised in quilts and quilted wallhangings. Gallery of designs. Calendar of events. |
| Mad_Cow_Design UK. Textile design studio specialised in printed and woven fabrics for fashion and home decoration. Also, colour, design and trend forecasting. |
| Majestic_Textiles,_Ltd UK. Custom design of hand woven and painted, beaded and embroidered fabrics for specialty apparel, from organic silk, viscose, wool, cotton and linen. |
| Manuela_Federica Switzerland. Design studio. Decorative creations for textiles, tableware, greeting cards and gift paper. On-line sample collections. English and German. |
| Marcie_Designs,_Inc USA. Textile design studio for apparel, sleepwear, and intimates. Also, paper and home fashions design. Sample galleries. |
| Marti_Schmidt_Designs,_Inc USA. Designers and custom manufacturers of printed fabrics, art and products for hotels, resorts and restaurants. Extensive esigns gallery. Description of process. Links to related sites. |
| Nancy_Eiseman Freelance textile designer, specializing in custom design of jacquard woven home furnishing fabrics. Portfolio of textile artwork, and background and contact information. |
| Origin,_Inc USA. Design studio for the apparel and home furnishings industries. Links to CAD design tools and relsted sites. |
| Oromono_Textile_Design UK. Designers of contemporary interior textiles. Detailed designs galleries. List of world wide retailers. Designers' profile. |
Cozy
Bendesky is
a textile artist who lives in Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. In her preteens,
surrounded by the fiber art explosion of the 1970's, she devoured the
Foxfire Books and decided that many needle crafts would not survive her
generation if she was not able to teach them to children when she was
grown.
She has
been quilting, handsewing and learning traditional needlecrafts ever since
(although she's glad to report that she will not be doing it alone in
the next century). She learned to knit in England, has made lace in Germany,
and has viewed some of the finest and oldest textile collections in the
world in France, Switzerland and the US. She has focused her attention
on modern construction and the Art Quilt since 1987.
Visit Her Studio (bring
a broom)
Gallery of Art Quilts
Fairfield Fashion
Show Garment
Shibori Fabric Dyeing
Classes & Workshops
Cozy's Artistic Statement
Cozy's Biography
Perfect Wife: 50's Style
Perfect Wife: 90's Style
truly believe that as our work and
home lives become more mechanized, computerized and automatic, we
will value the things we touch and feel ever more highly. Soft blankets,
luxury writing paper, furniture designed for comfort rather than
show incorporating several textures in one piece all have become
important. Touchable, wearable and comforting, fibers and textiles
draw the viewer to become involved, to touch and to speculate: "how
does that feel?" "what would it be like to be wrapped up inside
of it?"
This
site won
The CyberMom Dot Com
2 Hot 2 Handle award
Thursday, November 21st, 1996.
This
site was awarded the
National Online Quilters
Great Place award.
This
site was given the
Planet Patchwork
Web Excellence Award.
That's
Useful, This is Cool
picked this as a Cool Site
on Saturday, February 22, 1997
This
site was awarded
Top Homepage Award
in Germany.
Cozy's
website was
written up in the venerable
Netsurfer's Digest.
© 1996, 1997 Robert & Cozy Bendesky
All Rights Reserved
30 Nov 1997
Cozy can
now be reached @rcn.com
with the email name cozyb
