Tangdar

The Fabric

An embroidered fabric with chainstitched wool on an antique cream background: make a statement with Tangdar. The bold-but-muted colour palette works perfectly in historic homes, but the contemporary colour scheme lends itself to modern schemes.

Our artisans use large and striking outline and fill-in stitches on this embroidered fabric to produce work which speaks to centuries of crewel design while adding a contemporary edge.  Large petal heads inlaid with a striking cross-hatch add density and richness to the overall effect, in contrast with the light cotton ground.

Tangdar uses a delightful palette of secondary and tertiary colours. The embroidered fabric is made of the muted hues that fill the gaps in the colour wheel: moss, teal, duck-egg, dusky rose, nutmeg, maroon, giving the decorator opportunities to incorporate all kinds of colours into their scheme.

Suitability

As a bedhead, ottoman, footstool, bedspread or wall hanging, our embroidered fabric provides a striking centre-piece for building a design. As curtains or blinds, Tangdar’s antique cream background fits into an existing room, and the muted tones coordinate with many different colour schemes.

It is adaptable fabric which suits a simple wooden curtain pole and a delightful acorn finial, perhaps drawn over a draughty door to the garden or back yard. It is equally at home in a drawing room with an elegant pelmet or a perfectly toning trim or braid down the leading edge of the curtain, lending itself to the detail of a well-designed set.

If you are looking for a more traditional embroidered fabric, try our Woodmark design, which has a darker background and stronger colours.

The natural fibres of the cotton duck background cloth accommodate changes in temperature, moisture and light. In a period property it is important to use natural fibres wherever possible, because the environment will change with the seasons and the weather. Your fabric, like your house, will change with them. The creaks of the floorboards, and the whisper of the curtains give your house the character which makes it a home.

Updating the traditional tree of life design, with its trailing stems and floral motifs, Tangdar is a contemporary celebration of craft with its use of different embroidery stitches. “In craft there are no mistakes, just unique creations”. It is is a joyful creation of pattern, colour and nature.