Meet the Artist: Shayla Johnson of Scarlet Crane
Shayla Johnson is the product designer and surface pattern artist behind Scarlet Crane Creations. Trained in product design at Georgia Tech and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Shayla creates contemporary patterns that bring expressive art into useful, beautifully made objects.
Her fabric designs combine watercolor painting, vector illustration, simplified botanical forms, abstract textures, and modern geometrics. The collection moves easily from free-flowing foliage and tropical leaves to hand-painted stripes, irregular stones, and bold graphic shapes.
Scarlet Crane fabrics are designed for makers seeking modern botanical fabric, watercolor-inspired prints, versatile geometrics, and coordinated color for upholstery, curtains, patio cushions, table linens, apparel, quilting, accessories, and contemporary home décor. Every pattern is printed to order in the USA on your choice of 15+ base fabrics with a 1-yard minimum.
Modern Botanicals, Abstract Textures and Graphic Coordinates
Scarlet Crane balances organic imagery with clean contemporary pattern. Watercolor leaves, stylized houseplants, and layered foliage bring softness and movement, while painted stripes, zigzags, stone-like textures, and geometric marks add structure and contrast.
This combination makes the collection easy to use across a coordinated project. A leafy botanical can serve as the focal print, while an abstract or geometric pattern provides a quieter companion for pillow backs, borders, upholstery details, table linens, or garment accents.
The overall aesthetic is modern and approachable rather than overly formal. Strong shapes and clear color give the patterns visual impact, while the hand-painted qualities keep them from feeling rigid or mass-produced.
Explore the Complete Scarlet Crane Collection
Three Coordinated Color Stories
Scarlet Crane patterns are presented in three coordinated color directions. Each color story brings together botanical, abstract, stripe, and geometric designs, allowing customers to combine different motifs while maintaining a cohesive palette.
Sunflower Garden
Sunflower Garden combines sunny yellow, fresh green, black, white, and warm orange. The high-contrast palette feels energetic and graphic, making it especially effective for kitchens, breakfast rooms, garden-inspired interiors, modern quilts, and cheerful outdoor accents.
Aquamarine
Aquamarine pairs teal, seafoam, coral, peach, and soft gray for a fresh coastal-inspired look. These colors work beautifully for bathrooms, bedrooms, poolside spaces, patio cushions, resort apparel, table linens, and relaxed contemporary interiors.
Southwest
Southwest brings together coral red, teal, yellow, charcoal, green, and deep gray. The palette has warmth and contrast without relying on traditional Southwest motifs, making it suitable for eclectic interiors, bold upholstery, accessories, apparel, and colorful modern patchwork.
Visit the Scarlet Crane Brand page to view every active pattern, available colorway, and printable fabric option.
View All Scarlet Crane Patterns and Colorways
What Makes Scarlet Crane Fabrics Distinctive?
- Product-design perspective: Shayla creates patterns with finished products in mind, balancing visual impact with practical scale, coordination, and usability.
- Watercolor and vector artwork: Soft painted variation is paired with clear graphic forms for a look that feels artistic, polished, and contemporary.
- Botanical and geometric balance: Tropical foliage, houseplants, and abstract florals coordinate with stripes, zigzags, stones, and textured geometrics.
- Strong color coordination: Repeated palettes make it easier to combine different patterns across a room, quilt, apparel group, or collection of accessories.
- Indoor and outdoor versatility: The patterns can be printed on fabric bases suited to apparel, quilting, indoor décor, upholstery, and appropriate covered-outdoor applications.
Project Inspiration for Scarlet Crane Fabrics
Upholstery and Furniture Refreshes
Use bold botanicals and graphic geometrics to update dining chairs, benches, ottomans, accent chairs, headboards, and other upholstered pieces. Select a suitable décor-weight cotton, linen blend, twill, duck, or upholstery fabric based on the project’s durability requirements.
Patio Cushions and Outdoor Accents
Scarlet Crane’s saturated palettes and large botanical shapes are a natural fit for patio cushions, covered-porch pillows, poolside accents, table linens, and outdoor entertaining projects when printed on an appropriate performance fabric.
Curtains and Coordinated Interiors
Choose a leafy focal print for curtain panels or Roman shades, then repeat coordinating colors through cushions, upholstered seating, lampshades, table linens, and smaller decorative accessories.
Kitchens and Dining Spaces
Botanical prints, painted stripes, and graphic coordinates can bring color to café curtains, tablecloths, runners, napkins, placemats, aprons, chair pads, and other practical kitchen and dining projects.
Apparel and Fashion Accessories
Print the collection on lightweight cotton, cotton sateen, linen, or stretch fabric for dresses, skirts, shirts, jackets, scarves, bags, and statement accessories. The combination of organic motifs and modern geometry works well with clean, uncomplicated silhouettes.
Modern Quilts and Patchwork
Build a quilt around a watercolor botanical, then introduce smaller geometrics, painted stripes, and abstract textures for contrast. The coordinated color stories help different motifs work together without creating a rigid matched set.
Find a Scarlet Crane Fabric for Your Project
Printed to Order on Your Choice of Fabric
Scarlet Crane patterns 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, upholstery, table linens, and accessories.
- Printed to order in the USA
- 1-yard minimum
- Multiple 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 watercolor variation, painted textures, clean vector shapes, and saturated color
How to Order
- Browse the Scarlet Crane 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.
Need help choosing a fabric? Compare specifications and recommended uses in Our Fabrics, order a Ground Fabric Swatch Kit , review our Frequently Asked Questions, or contact The Textile District for personalized assistance.
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