NEW YORK CITY—Sina Pearson Textiles, New York City-based designer/manufacturer of contemporary upholstery fabrics, announces its introduction for Spring 2011: an environmentally-friendly series for both indoors and outdoors. With the Global Village Collection, Sina Pearson simultaneously pays tribute, and updates, elemental motifs common to many cultures. The simple stripe, the abstracted floral, the coiled basket weave, belong to a shared visual language, and have been found in artisanal textiles for thousands of years. Yet the singular approach to scale, rhythm, proportion and graphic color contrasts makes this group decidedly modern.
Global Village is woven of 100 percent solution-dyed Bella-Dura olefin fibers, providing exceptional fade-, weather- and mildew resistance outside, and rugged durability indoors. A score exceeding 50,000 double rubs on the Wyzenbeek abrasion test suits it for high-traffic contract and hospitality spaces. The palette is inspired by “universal colors,” notes Pearson, “dyes taken from the earth,” distilled from minerals or plants by native weavers. Global Village’s essential neutrals (stone, ebony, ivory, deep brown, moss green) get a lively pop when paired with vibrant geranium, ginseng, sunflower and periwinkle. The palette and imagery blend with Pearson’s six other outdoor collections, letting designers layer color, texture, pattern and scale.
The four patterns include:
• Piñata Party. Draw a line in the dirt with a stick and you have a stripe. Alternate bands of color across a warp and you have a woven stripe, the most primitive, elementary way to create pattern in cloth. The animated stitches, raised in bold relief, seem to dance outside the lines, and the candy-colored hues exude a sense of energy and joy. Five colorways feature six tones each: Butterscotch, Jelly Bean, Licorice, Cool Mint, Eucalyptus.
• Margarita. The simplest flower, with asymmetrical petals that look intentionally handmade, as if carved from a piece of wood or stamped with a block print. Five two-tone colorways: Sunflower, Geranium, Ginseng, Eclipse, Buckwheat.
• Basket Weaver. A handcrafted look, inspired by reeds being pulled, coiled and wrapped to form a basket. Narrow rows of S-curved bouclé yarns are raised in relief against a fine, smooth ground. Light vs. dark contrasts accentuate the dimensional character of the weave. Five two-tone colorways: Goldenrod, Agave, Ivory/Stone, Havana/Ebony, Ivory/Ebony.
• Maya. The solid-color version of “Basket Weaver.” A robust, tactile yet silky bouclé weave with a surface comfortable for sitting. Five solid colorways: Caliente, Stone, Ivory, Havana, Ebony.
Bella-Dura’s polypropylene (olefin) fiber is a byproduct of the petroleum refining process; its production uses material that would otherwise be incinerated. The solution-dyeing eliminates water waste and requires low temperatures and less energy. The fiber and yarn can be recycled without harmful effects to the environment. The fabric has a high performance GreenShield finish designed to repel moisture in the most environmentally sound way. Bella-Dura fabrics with GreenShield technology are certified “MBDC Cradle to Cradle Silver,” exceeding the McDonough Braungart protocol’s strict standards for human and environmental health.
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