I’ve just uploaded a selection of fabrics from gloriouscolor.com: 552 of them that I sorted, more or less, into color groups; to see these groupings click on the image below. The Glorious Color fabric shop stocks, among other things, a huge collection of prints by Kaffe Fassett, Philip Jacobs, and Brandon Mably, and the selection I’m showing here (at http://morecloth.com/gloriouscolor) is drawn from these. But “huge” in reference to a single independent fabric retailer means something rather different (smaller, more aesthetically coherent, and more consistent in terms of photography and lighting than “huge” in reference to the Etsy marketplace.

The challenge of looking at, appreciating, classifying, and generally wrapping the mind around the work of three selected designers differs in surprising ways from the challenge of sampling, every week or two, some part (not necessarily representative) of the big forest of fabric (10,000 items, 15,000? more? who knows?) present at any given moment at Etsy. I like looking at fabric both ways: seeing both the forest and the garden.

Maybe I should add a note of thanks to the people who provide, one way or another, the images that appear here – to the Etsy sellers and to Liza Prior Lucy of Glorious Color, who gave me permission to use images from her site. I don’t work for any of these people – morecloth is a strictly non-commercial undertaking – but my fabric-sorting efforts wouldn’t get anywhere without a good supply of fabrics to sort. In the next post I’ll be writing a bit about my own motives and about the software behind my site.