Pierre Frey Fabric

Pierre Frey has been printing and weaving in Paris since 1935, and the house is still run by the family. The fabric range runs from archive documents and hand-drawn prints through to plain weaves, velvets and embroideries, so a whole scheme can be built from one house without repeating itself.

We reach for it when a room needs pattern with some age behind it, and for the quieter weaves that sit underneath. Several hundred designs here. Sold by the half metre, with samples at £2.50 so you can see a cloth in your own light.