Fabrics for Staging and Home Fashion

The need to use fabric in home staging and furnishing is unavoidable. Fabric can set the sense of luxury, comfort, and quality in staging, furnishing and decorating a house. By selecting the right pattern, color, texture, and the type of fabric, you can entirely change the look of your home.

Choosing the right fabric for indoor and outdoor furniture, window treatments, bedding, pillows and any other decoration is what a home staging designer can help you with, in addition to providing you with an estimate for the cost of the custom upholstery, drapery, bedding, and pillows. A designer has access to fabric resources and specifications that are not always available and known to general public. These fabric specifications help the designer to present the right fabrics for your home furnishing projects.

Textile Categories — we can divide textiles in 4 different categories:
Plant Textile, Mineral textiles, Synthetic textiles, and Natural textiles. Textile Industry is creating and presenting new and innovative fabrics with new properties every day.

When selecting fabric for upholstery, there are several issues you need to be aware of. The style and period of the furniture, the light or heavy use of the furniture, the location that the furniture is going to be used at, and of course the pattern, color, texture, and the value of the furniture piece. In addition, you need to be aware of the fabrics that can have impact on your health and environment.

When selecting fabrics for drapery, the same above principals applies. Also, direct exposure to sun and dust plays a big role in selecting fabrics for drapery. For example silk fabric, which is a natural product, has very little tolerance towards sun and dust exposure. Some fabric colors fade out completely when are exposed to sun.

Outdoor fabrics are designed to stand well when exposed to the harsh weather, sun, dirt and dust and moister.

Innovative fabrics are specialty fabrics such as breathable, waterproof, water resistant, heat resistant, anti-microbial, anti- bacterial and other special and innovative fabrics serve special purposes in hospitality, and healthcare facilities, as well as home care.

Fabric resources and textile knowledge can lead you to make appropriate decision when selecting and assigning fabric for a project. At the same time you can improve the effect of the selected materials on people's health and the environment, by selecting environmentally preferable carpeting, upholstery, fabrics and other decorative items whenever possible.