5 Ways to Style Your Home with Cotswold Fabrics
Picture rolling green hills, meadows filled with wildflowers, and quaint honey-stone cottages. This is what one of the most beautiful corners of England looks like: the Cotswolds. The good news is that you don’t need to travel across the Atlantic to enjoy its charm. With our timeless collection of Cotswold fabrics, you can bring this countryside elegance into your own home, wherever in the world you live.
Wondering how to begin weaving Cotswold fabrics into your interiors? Here are five ways to capture the spirit of the English countryside in your design scheme…
1) Table covers with character
A well-made, colourful tablecloth instantly transforms everyday dining into a special occasion. Whether you drape it across a well-loved kitchen table or use it to disguise a surface that has seen better days, a fabric table cover brings a relaxed, warm feeling to your mealtimes.
With their bold colours and natural motifs, our Cotswold fabrics make your table feel like an open invitation to linger long after the meal is over. You could opt to make a tablecloth in our Sunflower Light Indigo colourway as a lively centrepiece, or cover a smaller console in our Sunflower Detail design in Peach, Soft Day Lily, and Day Lily cloth to add subtle interest to your room.
2) Bed canopies for cosy luxury
Few things feel quite as romantic and comforting as a fabric bed canopy. They were traditionally designed to keep the warmth in during long English winters, but have now transitioned into a playful design statement that adds height, softness, and charm to any bedroom scheme.
Layering your bed canopy with Cotswold-inspired fabrics allows you to experiment with different colours and moods. For example, our Dotty Check canopy in Lily Pink, Soft Raspberry, and Ochre feels more light-hearted and fun, while our Lattice Leaf fabric in Soft Cornflower and Moss creates a calmer, more traditional effect. Our Cotswold fabrics can transform even the simplest of bedframes into a true focal point that is brimming with texture and personality.
3) Quilts that embrace the seasons
As the summer fades and the evenings grow colder, nothing beats a cosy handmade quilt. Quilts made from Cotswold fabric are designed for both beauty and practicality, inviting you to layer and customise them as you wish. You could choose contrasting fabrics on either side, add distinctive trims, and select colours that echo the changing seasons.
If you want to create a characterful bedroom scheme, you could pair our Wild Fern fabric in Soft Cornflower and Speedwell with a contrasting Plain Linen trim in Day Lily. Or, if you’re looking for a bolder, more playful look, choose our Lapland Stripe Soft Cornflower, Cornflower, Damson, and Lily Pink colourway, trimmed with Little Fern in Lily Pink.
4) Lampshades with a story
Lighting has the power to make or break a room. From bedside tables to statement pendant lights, our Cotswold fabric lampshades bring pattern and character to your space, casting a warm, inviting glow that can’t help but draw you in.
Whether you’re drawn to the romantic glow that a softly gathered shade gives off, or prefer the more contemporary look that a clean-linen drum shade brings, our stylish lampshade designs are as beautiful by day as they are by night. For example, a drum shade in our May Blossom Light Peach and Charcoal colourway is perfect for catching that late afternoon light, becoming less of a fixture and more a piece of art in its own right.
5) Charming under-counter curtains
In many Cotswold cottages, cupboards were once closed with fabric rather than doors. This tradition can still be seen in many cottages in the region today. Adding an under-counter curtain to your kitchen, utility room, or even bathroom instantly softens the look of the space, making it look warm and inviting.
Our Cotswold curtain fabrics are relaxed and unfussy, helping to transform those functional corners into something quite charming. Our Fruit Garden fabric in Peach, Smoke, and Winter makes for the most beautiful under-counter kitchen curtains, while our Lattice Leaf design in Lily Pink and Mallow adds visual interest to your bathroom scheme.
Helping you bring Cotswold style into your home
Looking to invest in some beautiful, timeless Cotswold fabrics? Designed by Vanessa in her very own fabric shop in the Cotswolds, our fabrics are infused with the beauty of the countryside that surrounds us.
All our fabrics are available by the metre or through our bespoke made-to-measure service, and we also offer affordable samples to help you narrow down your favourites. We deliver to all countries across the world, including the USA, making it easy to enjoy our designs wherever in the world you are.
Browse our Cotswold fabrics today and get ready to bring the spirit of the English countryside into your home.
We sell fabrics exclusively designed by Vanessa Arbuthnott, along side small, bespoke collection of Made to Measure items which includes curtains, blinds, sofas, footstools, chairs, headboards, and quilts, all handmade specially for you by master crafts people.
