Pacific Rose & Textiles

Textile designer & printmaker Elizabeth James fell under the spell of hand block-printed textiles on her first trip to India in 2001. Before returning home, she had teamed up with a fair-trade block-printing workshop in the pink city of Jaipur and began work on her first home goods collection. Working from her California studio, her ideas are downloaded and distilled into her unique design recipe that includes riffs on classic Indian Mughal motifs, a rich color palette, with a California boho sensibility. Her designs are sent to the block-printing workshop, where skilled artisans carve the printing blocks by hand. With each collection, Elizabeth travels to Jaipur to oversee the color mixing and sample making. After lots of tweaking to get everything just so, production begins. It takes up to 12 weeks as master printers meticulously block-print each design by hand, while seamstresses cut and sew each piece with loving care. Like a fingerprint, a block-printed textile reveals the individuality of the artisans who created it. With every stamp of the block, something unique and magical emerges, one small batch at a time.