Watch some of the seasons highlights on Design Santa Barbara With Susan Shand, Leesa Wilson Goldmuntz, and get some expert tips from Sarah Mcfadden with Michael Kourosh.
But first learn about appraisal textiles. Learn about the Inca textile of sun dancers, Inca Hat and Coptic Textiles.
The 1700 Inca Textile from Peru which is normally very dry and never rains wich leading to such textiles lasting for a long time. Coptic textiles are woven as a piece of clothing with Greek and Egypt designs.
A 1000-1500 year old Inca Textile hats woven with lama hair. The principal colors used in Inca textiles were black, white, green, yellow, orange, purple, and red. These colors came from natural dyes which were extracted from plants, minerals, insects, and molluscs. Hundreds of additional color shades were made from mixing the base palette of pigments. . The Incas favored abstract geometric designs, especially checkerboard motifs, which repeated patterns across the surface of the cloth. Certain patterns may also have been ideograms and carried a specific meaning, but the issue continues to be debated by scholars. Non-geometrical subjects, often rendered in abstract form, included felines (especially jaguars and pumas), llamas, snakes, birds, sea creatures, and plants.
Inca Weavers
It seems that both men and women created textiles, but it was a skill women of all classes were expected to be accomplished at. The principal equipment was the back strap loom for smaller pieces and either the horizontal single-heddle loom or vertical loom with four poles for larger pieces, such as rugs and blankets. Spinning was done with a drop spindle, typically in ceramic or wood. Inca textiles were made using cotton or llama, alpaca, and vicuña wool which can be exceptionally fine. Goods made using the super-soft vicuña wool were restricted and only the Inca ruler could own vicuña herds.
Susan Shand has always had amazing projects and grate homes to design, this episode takes place on the hills of Montecito. See how Susan transforms a beautiful home for friends and family to enjoy. You always want to start of with a rug and make your way up to furniture and accessories. Susan chose a rug that has a beautiful palette of colors with a warm gray to complement the temporary colors around the room. At Rugs and More we carry thousands of rugs available for purchase, Ranging from antique to contemporary.
The Home had typical 1980 fireplace and did not go well with the rest of the home since the home owners wanted to make it very contemporary. Susan did a hard walnut wood throughout the entire house. The Coffee table is a large textured leather material for a big home to take up some of that space. Every piece in the living room is hand done and custom made.
Leesa Wilson-Goldmuntz
Watch Leesa Wilson Goldmuntz Design a large beautiful home in Montecito built for entertaining. With some of the best Furniture at Santa Barbara Design Center we are proud to provide the greatest selection in town of the best items to add comfort and luxury to where you live. From one-of-a-kind antiques to sofas, sectionals, and chairs custom-made to your specifications, to lamps and lighting, to tables, to rugs, we have everything to fit your personal style. Come in with your own design specifications or allow our staff of professional designers to create a room centered around the most important person to use that room, you.
See the most outstanding rugs from Rugs and more. One of which being a Modern Tibetan Rug In which leesa used for her design. A wonderful contemporary style Tibetan rug has a muted silver-on-grey scheme with gentle lines to provide depth. These colors work to accentuate a room’s natural light and the surrounding furnishings, bringing warmth from woods and making colors more vibrant. The fantastic weave and texture bring a modern feel to any room along with an Oushak rug to tie the rooms together. Leesa incorporates different furniture to the sitting area to fit about 20 people and more to give it that welcome feeling to the huge living.
Expert Tips With Sarah McFadden
What do you do when you come across people who start a project and stop from agency and stress?
Sarah McFadden suggests creating a plan and an agenda to alleviate a lot of the stress. You want to sit down at the table and figure out where you want to focus the money on and there budget towards and start the project.
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