By Yard Scalamandre Les Fleurs Gardens Chintz Grey Watkinscream Botanical Print Cream white Lily Iris Couscous Bulb Lilium Leslie Merritt MSRP USD 404/y

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Total available: 5.25yards

Scalamandre Les Fleurs Gardens

Designed by Leslie Merritt for Grey & Watkins. The scientific study of bulb flowers, the sprite sight after a cold winter is always so heart warming, is married with acute aesthetics with exquisite sensibility.

Grey & Watkins created some unrivaled botanical study printed onto textile that you can frame and hang as fine art!

Hand printed in France, Les Fleurs is on a high thread count of cotton percale, lighter weight but very durable.

100% cotton

HR27", VR 18", Width 54"

Country of Origin: France.

Weight: light medium, about 0.3lb/yard.

Application: drapery, upholstery. Although at lighter weight, this cotton percale is very steady and durable. It'll last for decades as upholstery.

MSRP $404 years ago. Now such print, if available at all, retails for $600+/yard.

Ms. Merritt spends several weeks a year studying plants in natural habitats or in botanical gardens. A design to be introduced in 1992 depicts rare orchids hanging in clusters.She spent part of this summer and last in Hawaii, drawing orchids on Oahu. ”I can always find an individual orchid,” Ms. Merritt said, ”but I want to see how they grow on a tree.She reworked the design so that the motif could be repeated on a piece of fabric. For the orchid design, 32 colors were required. The painting took six months and hand engraving, to be done in France, will employ 32 color plates and take nine months.Ms. Merritt, whose real name is Susan Webb, grew up in Lincoln City, Ore. She received a master’s degree in painting and set design from the Chicago Institute of Art and later joined Brunschwig & Fils, where she interpreted antique documents. At Grey Watkins, she uses the name Leslie Merritt to distinguish her work there from her work at Brunschwig.In 1988 she won a Roscoe Award for the best product design in traditional textiles. The award was given by the Resources Council, a trade organization.

”I’m interested only in unusual botanicals,” she said. ”The world has more than enough roses and pansies.”

Some fabrics have multiple bolts---each bolt is in *separated* listing.

Total yards available: please see photo (sometimes in several bolts).

Fiber, repeat, width, weight, country of origin, retail price/yard:

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Note the retail price/yard sometimes are from a few years ago,

current price or for similar textile can be 10-30% higher