Etsuko Furuya Echino Fabric

As one of Japan’s finest contemporary graphic designers, Etsuko Furuya is a master of modern imagery and beautiful crafting with colour. Etsuko Furuya’s Echino Collection represents her softer, more whimsical fantasy designs and often includes animal motifs such as the beautiful stags featured in her ‘Woodland’ fabrics. For some years, birds have been a favourite Etsuko Furuya motif and these can be seen in her beautiful Echino Collection fabrics, Perch, Balance Bird, Flap, Bonbon, Flower Bed, Story and Peacock. Unlike her Echino Collections, her Echino Nico fabrics are strong, bold graphic statements and here Etsuko Furuya drops the animal motifs in favour of contemporary lifestyle references such as sunglasses, cars, planes, bikes as in her fabulous fabric design ‘Bicycle’, buses, and helicopters. She works each individual motif into punchy, often linear, graphic fabric designs incorporating spots, dots and lines and forging exciting and surprising colour combinations. There is no doubt that Etsuko Furuya’s exquisite fabric designs are fabulously appealing and this is perhaps why she has found favour with one of Japan’s leading fashion fabric houses, Kokka, home of the Trefle fabric collections. Kokka produce the Echino Nico fabrics as beautiful, flexible medium-weight cotton / linen blends that can be worked up into soft furnishings, lampshades, upholstery and curtains as well as used for dressmaking, bags and accessories