I have previously mentioned my past life as a gypsy. Though I can’t recall anything of the sort (I haven’t been through regression therapy or anything vaguely Shirley MacLaine), I’m surmising this to be the case because I love nothing more than fabric. When Tokyo-born Maki Yamamoto, who was trained “in the exacting world of fashion design,” put her scissoring skills to work for interior fabrics, I was overwhelmed. Founded in 2001, Fabricteria Maki designs custom textile pieces for the home.

Hana. Designed by Fabricteria Maki.

Meant to be used “as window treatments, space dividers, wall hangings, art pieces or bed spreads,” Fabricteria Maki’s interior collections feature artistic creations in fabric, each custom-designed and hand-sewn. The newest collection, entitled Jewels for Your Home, pays close attention to texture, using “soft cotton to gleaming organza to the versatile polyester” to play with layers and depth. Jewels for Your Home focuses on three “overlaid” forms: ruffles, stitching, and pleats. Maki believes that “the architecture of a piece is its soul”—an aesthetic philosophy that translates beautifully in this three-dimensional collection. Fabricteria Maki provides astute and artful definitions of these methods: ruffles make “playful fabric sculptures”; stitching creates “organic lines like drawings on paper”; and pleats “add an organized texture to the base fabric.”

The pieces from this collection prove Maki’s skill with manipulating fabric and showcase her eye for color. By pairing translucent and shiny fabrics, juxtaposing straight and curved forms, and combining intense and neutral hues, the Fabricteria Maki panels demonstrate how sculptural fabric can be. Maki says of her work, “When you know it is true, then the world agrees with you.” In the case of her Jewels for Your Home Collection, this statement holds up: many of the designs have appeared in design magazines, and most agree that the work is one-of-a-kind art.