The Design Library New York contains over seven million antique, vintage, modern, and contemporary textiles and swatches, painted patterns, wallpapers, embroideries, yarn dyes, pattern books, and production records of important mills, dating from the 1750s to the present.
It is an archive source of inspiration for the fashion industry
Originally situated in Manhattan it travelled up the Hudson river into a twelve-thousand square-foot loft in a converted 1907 fabric mill in New York’s Hudson Valley.
I went to hear Peter Koepke launch his book Patterns at Londons recently opened design museum it was inspiring to be with others who loved pattern.
The book is full of patterns arranged into alphabetical themes.