Sister & Sewn

The Design Library

Practical tools, thoughtful references and a growing directory for the people who specify, make and live with beautiful materials.

Because knowing what to do with a material is part of valuing it.
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What Could This Become?

Start with the yardage you already have and explore what it might become, from pillows and shades to upholstery and window treatments.

Explore yardage possibilities
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Wallpaper Calculator

Estimate wallcovering yardage using room dimensions, wallcovering width, vertical repeat and a sensible installation allowance.

Calculate wallcovering
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The Pillow Guide

A working reference for scale, proportion, finishing and the details that separate a considered pillow from an afterthought.

Open the pillow guide
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Color + Psychology

A guide to how hue, contrast, saturation and context change the emotional language of a room — unseen, but felt.

Explore color
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The Maker Directory

A reviewed directory of workrooms, installers, craftspeople and specialists — designed to help good ideas find the skilled hands that can make them real.

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Across the Atlantic

Our commitment to the exchange of ideas, craft and materials between the American design trade and makers across Britain and Europe.

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A library that grows with the work.

We will keep adding the references we wish were easier to find: useful, beautiful, and grounded in the realities of specifying and making.

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