Made with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Blending the timeless artistry of historic textiles with contemporary design, our collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces special-edition table mats and rugs inspired by textile works in The Met’s extraordinary collection. Debuting on the birthday of William Morris (March 24), these beautiful and useful foundations celebrate storytelling through pattern and craft.
Our design team spent days exploring The Met collection and ultimately selected a trio of 19th-century textiles—by Morris, Emeline Travis Ludington, and Ernestine Eberhardt Zaumseil—for their artistic richness and historical resonance. Each work is reimagined for modern life through the use of TerraStrand yarns that are woven in Alabama into easy-care textiles for indoor/outdoor use.
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With its lush, stylized flora, Violet and Columbine, a Morris design registered in 1883, is sophisticated and ornamental in spirit. It exemplifies the ethos of the Arts and Crafts movement, which pioneered an artful approach to design and manufacturing that championed craftsmanship and thoughtful material selection. Morris, a key figure in the movement, believed that people should be surrounded by beautiful, useful things—a tenet shared by our founder, Sandy Chilewich.
From The Met’s American Wing, we selected two quilts. Ludington’s appliqué quilt offers a vibrant expression of florals. Layers of texture and hand-appliquéd blooms echo the care and artistry of generational textile traditions. The Branches and Vines Quilt (ca. 1875) by Zaumseil was chosen for its rhythmic, organic movement and the interplay of nature-inspired forms. Our interpretation is a tribute to traditional American quiltmaking.
