Meet the Artist: Kate Blairstone
Kate Blairstone is a Portland, Oregon artist, illustrator, and surface pattern designer known for bold botanicals, expressive color, organic texture, and patterns rooted in stories of identity, heritage, food, and place.
Kate creates from her home studio, where her family, kitchen, and garden remain close at hand. The abundant plant life of the Pacific Northwest, Portland’s culinary culture, treasured travel memories, and the visual language of gathering and hospitality all influence her work.
Many of Kate’s large-scale organic designs begin with Indian ink painted on layers of tissue paper. The process creates irregular edges, overlapping shapes, tonal variation, and a handcrafted quality reminiscent of traditional screen printing.
Beyond textiles, Kate creates custom wallpaper, illustration, fine art, licensed products, and immersive pattern installations for residential and commercial interiors. This experience gives her fabric collection a strong understanding of how color and pattern perform across furniture, windows, walls, apparel, table settings, and finished products.
Every Kate Blairstone design is printed to order in the USA on your choice of 15+ base fabrics with a 1-yard minimum.
Color and Pattern That Tell a Story
Kate believes that people deserve color and pattern in their lives and that thoughtfully designed spaces can help tell personal, cultural, and community stories. Her work uses plants, foods, landscapes, and collected objects as symbols of memory, identity, season, and place.
This storytelling approach gives her patterns more depth than purely decorative motifs. A tropical leaf may recall a neighborhood garden, a stripe may carry the energy of a market stall, and a botanical composition may reflect the foods, flowers, and visual traditions associated with a particular place.
Kate’s experience designing custom wallcoverings and illustrations for hospitality and residential interiors also informs the scale and visual confidence of her fabric patterns. Many designs have enough presence to anchor a room, while the accompanying geometrics, stripes, plaids, and abstract textures provide useful contrast.
The resulting collection feels maximalist, warm, personal, and highly adaptable. Bold focal fabrics can be paired with quieter supporting patterns across upholstery, curtains, bedding, apparel, quilting, table linens, and accessories.
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Kate Blairstone Fabric Collections
Over the Waves: Tropical Botanicals and Travel-Inspired Pattern
Over the Waves is inspired by treasured souvenirs, tropical plants, ingredients, and the experience of discovering beauty through travel. The collection expresses both a longing for escape and the ability to find joy, hope, and wonder in the natural world close to home.
Schefflera and Orchid provide bold botanical focal patterns, while the signature Over the Waves design creates a flowing floral composition with strong movement. Tumbleweed, Spiny Oyster, and Shitake translate organic forms into painterly abstract textures.
Glyph and Equis introduce cleaner geometric structure, allowing the tropical florals and organic abstracts to be balanced with more orderly supporting patterns.
Rich colorways move through cacao brown, rose, verdigris, coral, teal, ocean blue, olive, cream, charcoal, and unexpected multicolor combinations. The variety supports dramatic tropical interiors as well as quieter, earthier interpretations.
Over the Waves is especially well suited to statement upholstery, curtains, poolside and patio accents printed on an appropriate outdoor base, bedding, table linens, resort-inspired apparel, and colorful decorative accessories.
Pacific Northwest Gardens, Markets, and Painterly Coordinates
Kate’s original Textile District assortment draws from Pacific Northwest gardens, flowers, regional landscapes, food, and the visual abundance of local markets. The group combines expressive botanical focal prints with stripes, plaids, geometrics, and textural coordinates.
Oregon Mahonia, Tetrapanax, and Chrysanthemum celebrate abundant plant forms through large-scale floral repeats. Their saturated palettes and organic shapes create strong options for curtains, upholstery, bedding, apparel, and other statement projects.
Market Stall, Flower Basket, and Harvest Basket reinterpret stripes through irregular bands, layered color, and painterly texture. These directional patterns can stand alone or coordinate with the larger botanical designs.
Tenez and Breezeblock add geometric and plaid structure, giving the collection useful options for pillow backs, borders, linings, quilt coordinates, table linens, and layered interior schemes.
The broad palette includes deep green, coral, pink, ochre, chartreuse, blue, lilac, cream, rust, turquoise, and richly layered multicolor combinations inspired by gardens, food, water, and the changing light of the Pacific Northwest.
Visit the Kate Blairstone Brand page to view every active pattern, available colorway, and printable fabric option.
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What Makes Kate Blairstone Fabrics Distinctive?
- Story-led pattern design: Plants, foods, travel memories, landscapes, and cultural references give the patterns a connection to identity, heritage, community, and place.
- Hand-painted source artwork: Indian ink applied to layered tissue paper creates irregular edges, overlapping color, organic texture, and visible evidence of the artist’s hand.
- Bold botanical scale: Large tropical leaves, florals, and organic forms create fabric with enough presence to anchor upholstery, curtains, bedding, and statement garments.
- Masterful color relationships: Saturated brights, earthy neutrals, unusual pairings, and nuanced retro-influenced palettes give each pattern a distinctive mood.
- Focal and coordinating designs: Expressive florals and tropical patterns are supported by stripes, plaids, geometrics, and abstract textures for layered projects.
- Hospitality and interior-design relevance: Kate’s custom wallpaper and illustration experience informs how patterns work across immersive spaces, furniture, windows, walls, and decorative objects.
- Broad application potential: The collection moves naturally between home décor, upholstery, apparel, quilting, table linens, accessories, and selected outdoor projects.
Project Inspiration for Kate Blairstone Fabrics
Statement Upholstery and Immersive Interiors
Use Schefflera, Tetrapanax, Oregon Mahonia, Orchid, Over the Waves, or another large-scale botanical to transform an accent chair, bench, ottoman, dining seat, upholstered headboard, or decorative screen into a focal point.
Select a cotton duck, twill, sailcloth, linen, velvet, or other suitable décor-weight base according to the project’s intended use and desired surface texture.
Curtains and Wall-Scale Pattern
Kate’s bold repeats benefit from room to reveal their complete composition. Use the larger florals, tropical botanicals, and painterly abstracts for curtain panels, Roman shades, fabric wall panels, room dividers, duvet covers, and other projects with broad uninterrupted surfaces.
Pair a statement window treatment with pillows or accessories in Glyph, Equis, Breezeblock, Tenez, or one of the painterly stripe designs to repeat the palette without using the same motif throughout the room.
Patio, Poolside, and Outdoor Accents
Print selected tropical, abstract, or geometric patterns on an appropriate outdoor fabric for patio cushions, poolside pillows, covered-porch curtains, outdoor table linens, and decorative accessories.
Bright botanicals create a resort-inspired focal point, while geometrics and textured patterns provide practical coordinates for seating groups and layered outdoor spaces.
Table Linens and Entertaining
Kate’s connections to food, markets, restaurants, and hospitality make the collection especially relevant for table settings. Use Market Stall, Harvest Basket, Flower Basket, Shitake, or a botanical design for tablecloths, runners, placemats, napkins, aprons, chair pads, and café curtains.
A bold floral can anchor the table, while a stripe, plaid, or geometric pattern provides contrast through napkins, reversible backs, borders, or trim.
Expressive Apparel and Resort Sewing
Print tropical botanicals, colorful florals, painterly stripes, or abstract patterns on lightweight cotton, cotton sateen, linen, or stretch fabric for dresses, skirts, camp shirts, jackets, robes, scarves, and statement accessories.
Simple garment silhouettes give the large organic patterns room to remain visible, while smaller geometrics and textures work well for detailed garments, linings, pockets, and coordinating pieces.
Modern Quilts and Textile Art
Use a large floral, tropical, or abstract design as the central panel of a modern quilt, then combine it with Breezeblock, Glyph, Equis, Tenez, Market Stall, or another supporting pattern for blocks, sashing, borders, binding, and backing.
Kate’s fabrics can also be cut into smaller sections to reveal unexpected combinations of color, texture, and form for improvisational quilting, abstract patchwork, and textile collage.
Pillows and Layered Home Décor
Decorative pillows provide an accessible way to combine Kate’s statement and supporting designs. Use a tropical botanical or large floral on the front, then add a stripe, plaid, geometric, or abstract texture on the reverse, piping, or gusset.
The same approach can be used for lampshades, fabric baskets, bench cushions, storage accessories, and upholstered panels.
Handbags and Colorful Accessories
Painterly abstracts, geometrics, stripes, and medium-scale florals translate naturally to tote bags, zipper pouches, cosmetic cases, book sleeves, travel accessories, and reusable gift bags.
Pair related patterns for linings, handles, pockets, bindings, and contrast panels to create an accessory with a coordinated interior and exterior.
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Printed to Order on Your Choice of Fabric
Kate Blairstone designs are available by the yard on 15+ base fabrics, allowing you to select the weight, texture, drape, and performance best suited to your project. Options include cottons, linens, natural-fiber blends, performance fabrics, and specialty textiles for apparel, quilting, curtains, bedding, upholstery, table linens, accessories, and selected outdoor applications.
- Printed to order in the USA
- 1-yard minimum
- Bold floral, tropical, abstract, stripe, plaid, and geometric designs
- Multiple coordinated colorways available on individual product pages
- Natural-fiber fabrics are steamed, washed, and dried after printing for a soft hand and durable, colorfast results
- Detailed digital printing preserves expressive ink marks, organic edges, layered texture, tonal variation, and nuanced color
How to Order
- Browse the Kate Blairstone Brand page and select a pattern.
- Choose the colorway that best fits your project.
- Select the base fabric you would like us to print.
- Enter the number of yards needed and add the fabric to your cart.
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