Bold, playful, art-forward
Slow Goods Original prints and fabrics are hand-crafted at our Midwest-based studio through processes of exploratory print-making, color mixing, and wobbly hand-painting. Working both fast and slow, we combine quick, energetic and intuitive brushstrokes with precise geometric studies and bold color palettes.
![A detailed view of a geometric block pattern.](http://slowgoodsstudio.com/cdn/shop/files/Printing_black_geo_fabric_sm_{width}x.jpg?v=1654710851)
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Inspired by color-blocking, sculptural forms, tilework, interior design, gardening, vintage and modern quilts, we gravitate to the boundaries between minimalism and maximalism – often seeking to bring colors and patterns to textiles that can be both raucous and restrained at once, and never boring.
![A studio with prints hanging on the wall, with a plant in the foreground.](http://slowgoodsstudio.com/cdn/shop/files/Plant_with_studio_wall_background_{width}x.jpg?v=1654290180)
![A hand holds the pattern of a block print block.](http://slowgoodsstudio.com/cdn/shop/files/Monstera_block_blue_geo_background_{width}x.jpg?v=1654290179)
Print ideas often develop from collecting visual inspiration – from river stones and art gallery visits, to Pantone chips and Pinterest boards. This visual material filters through the studio, and translates through means of sketching, painting, block-printing and digital design. The Painted Tiles fabric print developed from encountering a shower surround that I wanted to wrap myself up in – a few of the tile inspiration images shown in this mood board. The brushy geometric shapes in eventual painted cloth were inspired by these Bert & May tiles in particular.
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![](http://slowgoodsstudio.com/cdn/shop/files/andrea-painted-fabric_18121679-e499-4b66-980a-4813b3fa1cac_{width}x.jpg?v=1675052179)
![Vases print in process made of hand-painted shapes and cut-outs](http://slowgoodsstudio.com/cdn/shop/files/vases-print-process-web_{width}x.jpg?v=1658460542)
Tilework and quilts spark ideas of dynamic geometric color studies. Other fabric prints draw on sculptural forms – from furniture of the Memphis design group, to 20th century minimalism. Playing with balance, wobble and gesture is an endlessly curious pursuit. The work of many artists – Louise Nevelson, Anni Albers, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Ernesto Neto, Do Ho Suh, to name a few – continually inspire in color study, fabric forms, shape study and repetition.
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![Polaroids of Meg and Kristin, along with a pattern of a print.](http://slowgoodsstudio.com/cdn/shop/files/Polaroids_MegandKristin_sm_{width}x.png?v=1654710852)
![Multi-color fabric print and paint color palette showing an insight into the creative studio process for developing original Slow Goods prints.](http://slowgoodsstudio.com/cdn/shop/files/paint-palette-over-fabric_web_{width}x.jpg?v=1658460542)
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