Fabric House: Entrancing Textiles

A selection of luminous silk velvets

Name:                      Fabric House

Owner:                     Connie LeFevre

Neighborhood:          Houston Design District

Address:                   7026 Old Katy Rd. Ste 159

                               Houston, TX 77024

Website:                  FabricHouseTX.com

Price Range:             $$-$$$$

Samples of Animal-Print Velvet.

What You’ll Find:     

More than just fabric, FabricHouse carries wallpapers, trims, and drapery hardware. Large swathes of fabric hang from the display racks, so you can see how that embroidered silk would drape if used for curtains in your living room. FabricHouse carries just about every fabric you could want, everything from traditional stripes and velvets to avant-garde digitally printed textiles, Ralph Lauren to Romo. The wallpaper section houses pattern books from the likes of Versace, Raymond Waites, Sanderson, and York.

Wallpaper & Fabric Samples (clockwise from top left: Thibaut by Anna French,
Natural Resource Collection, Parkland in Yellow; JFFabrics Antiquity, Style 5261 99;
  Groundworks, David Hicks by Ashley Hicks, La Fiorentina in Berry;
Versace Home, 962405 in Beige, Green & Metallic; Wind Fabrics Tramontana 0 in Red/Bordeaux)

Why You Should Go:

Three-foot diameter cabbage roses bloom against a black background, courtesy of JFFabrics’ Antiquity line of wallpapers. Hunt Slonem’s rabbit wallpapers greet you from their hanging racks. Hand-painted papers in colors of gold, silver, copper, and carbon beckon you to touch them.

Wind – a fabric line from Belgium – features all things Belgian without becoming a moody gray knock-off of Axel Vervoordt. The line heavily features linens, but these aren’t your boring beige linen: oversized spring green gingham complements a modern, painterly paisley in pink, orange, and sky blue on a background of navy linen.

Ralph Lauren’s Cornelius Velvet defies convention with its almost neon oranges and reds. A group of velvet animal prints hangs near the wallpaper library: five different cheetah prints! Five leopards! Not to mention the tiger-stripes in a range of golden to ivory colorways!

The shop overflows with gorgeous fabrics, beautiful wallpapers, trims & drapery hardware. Definitely take some time to visit FabricHouse: it’s like a candy shop for interior designers & design enthusiasts.

JFFabrics Antiquity Collection

Wind Fabrics (Clockwise from Top: Wind Fabrics, Pasha 1 in Blue;
  Barbados 11 in Pink/Purple; Amazone 3 in Green; Pagode 16 in Orange)

Hunt Slonem for Groundworks Wallpapers
(Clockwise from Top Right: Bunny Wall Small in Red;
Bunny Wall in Black; Bunny Wall Small in Ivory;
Finches in Multi/Gold; Finches in Multi/Ivory;
Bunny Wall Small in Black; Bunny Wall in Ivory;
Bunny Wall Small in Blue)

Ralph Lauren Cornelius Velvet in Madder Red