A Coastal Walk, Reworked: Juliet Travers Launches Coastline

Heather and gorse rarely get much credit for their colour pairing, but Juliet Travers noticed it. The dusty pink of ling blooms against the acid yellow of gorse flowers, spotted on walk after walk along the British coast, has become the starting point for Ling, one of five designs in her new wallpaper collection Coastline. It is the kind of detail that only surfaces after years of looking, and that patient, attentive way of seeing runs through the whole collection.

Ling in Ochre and Sage by Juliet Travers.

Travers grew up on a farm in Scotland, one of six children, and traces her love of drawing back to her mother, who painted Disney characters and storybook murals across each of their bedroom doors. That instinct for pattern followed her through her training in Printed Textiles for Interior Furnishings at Edinburgh College of Art, and into years spent working for Fox Linton, Cole and Son, Colefax and Fowler and de Gournay, before she launched her own label in 2013. Her husband's family farm in Zimbabwe gave her debut collection, Safari, its subject, and the brand has carried that love of wildlife ever since, through Albion in 2014 and Essentials in 2021...

(...)

Want to read more of this article?
We are proud to be a subscriber-funded publication with members in 185 countries. We know our readership is passionate about textiles, so we invite you to help us preserve and promote the stories, memories, and histories that fabric holds. Your support allows us to publish our magazine, and also ‘what's on’ information, and subscription interviews, reviews, and long-read articles in our online blog. 

ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? CLICK HERE TO ACCESS CONTENT

Or, to continue reading….


Magazine subscribers automatically get free access to all our online content. We send the access code by email with the publication of each issue. You will also find it on the envelope containing your magazine. Please note the access code changes every issue. 

. . .

Image Credits:

Lead: Juliet Travers in her studio.

All images are courtesy of the artist.