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Decorative William Morris-style title card for the article “What Is An Ikat Pattern?”, with the heading lettered inside an ornate botanical border.

Ikat is a dyeing trick as much as a pattern. The yarns get dyed before they are woven, so when the cloth finally comes together the design lands with soft,...

Ikat is a dyeing trick as much as a pattern. The yarns get dyed before they are woven, so when the cloth finally comes together the design lands with soft,...

Argyle sweater pattern showing overlapping diamonds in red, navy, and gold with diagonal cross-hatch overlay

Argyle is the diamond-and-line pattern you know from golf sweaters and dress socks: interlocking diamonds laid out in a grid, with thin diagonal lines, the overcheck, crossing through them. It...

Argyle is the diamond-and-line pattern you know from golf sweaters and dress socks: interlocking diamonds laid out in a grid, with thin diagonal lines, the overcheck, crossing through them. It...

Decorative William Morris-style title card for the article “What Is A Houndstooth Pattern?”, with the heading lettered inside an ornate botanical border.

You have almost certainly worn houndstooth, or stood next to someone who has. It is a two-color cloth design of broken-check shapes: little jagged four-pointed stars, or rough hourglasses if...

You have almost certainly worn houndstooth, or stood next to someone who has. It is a two-color cloth design of broken-check shapes: little jagged four-pointed stars, or rough hourglasses if...

Whimsigoth bedroom with deep emerald velvet upholstered headboard, celestial-print bedding, and vintage astrology charts on dark walls

Whimsigoth is exactly what the name promises: gothic darkness with a wink of whimsy. It bubbled up out of social media around 2021 and has grown into one of the...

Whimsigoth is exactly what the name promises: gothic darkness with a wink of whimsy. It bubbled up out of social media around 2021 and has grown into one of the...

Victorian maximalist sitting room with layered patterned wallpaper, gallery wall, and abundant decorative objects

Victorian maximalism is an interior design approach that celebrates dense pattern, saturated color, layered decoration, and bold material contrasts. The style draws on actual Victorian-era decoration (roughly 1837 to 1901)...

Victorian maximalism is an interior design approach that celebrates dense pattern, saturated color, layered decoration, and bold material contrasts. The style draws on actual Victorian-era decoration (roughly 1837 to 1901)...

Japandi-style bedroom with pale oak furniture, linen bedding, paper pendant lamp, and a single grasscloth feature wall

Japandi is what happens when Japanese minimalism marries Scandinavian warmth, and the two turn out to have a lot in common. It came together around 2017, when designers realized both...

Japandi is what happens when Japanese minimalism marries Scandinavian warmth, and the two turn out to have a lot in common. It came together around 2017, when designers realized both...