A culturally intelligent color-and-pattern house — every pattern named and credited.
Autumn 2026
Design that starts with a color story.
Culturally informed design — readymade, bespoke, or made by your own hands. Learn the traditions, shop the pieces, or download a pattern and start tonight.
Falmouth Harbor Light
The Sound at sunrise · Falmouth, Massachusetts
Talisman™ · the home line
Three ways into Talisman.
Our home line. Modern Heritage is its autumn collection, New Ancestors its newest, and the Custom Shop makes any of it yours.
Seasonal · Autumn 2026
Modern Heritage: Fall for Home
Prints that make savoring the chilly season
even more interesting.
19 pieces
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Ready for holiday
Talisman Custom Shop
Choose our colors, or bring us yours — a favorite
photograph becomes a piece made in the colors of your own places and
people. We’ll make something worth keeping.
10 pieces
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New · Talisman
The New Ancestors Collection
Heirloom prints cut for the people making the
heirlooms. Cranes, blossom and indigo on pieces you actually wear
and live in.
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Shop by room
All rooms →
Start where you are standing.
Walls & windows
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The biggest thing in the room is the room.
A palette does not stop at the cushion. The same five colors go up on the wall, hang at the window, and sit under the chair — which is the whole point of buying color by the story.
Wallpaper
Eel Frond, at wall scale
One drawn frond, repeated floor to ceiling in
ink on cream. The room takes its accents from the paper — navy in
the chair, burnt orange in the cushion, nothing else needed.
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Paint & backdrops
The quiet wall
Every palette carries a wall color, not just a
print. Here the pattern stays in the weave and the wall does the
holding — the same five colors, spent differently.
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Color, with a source
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Six color stories and their provenance.
A harbor at first light. A Parisian apartment at dusk. Every palette on this page was drawn from a real place and image.
Falmouth Harbor Light
The Falmouth Sound at sunrise, Cape Cod.
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Parisian Apartment
The reds and creams of a grand Parisian apartment at dusk.
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Cape Cod Morning · Kente
Kente geometry — Akan people, Ghana. Interpreted, credited, never a reproduction.
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Santorini Limestone Blue
Greek key — the Aegean, worked in limestone, indigo and olive.
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Aegean Sunburn
Burnt orange against deep water — the hour the sun stops being kind.
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Cape Cod Mermaid
Shell rose, sand and sea blue — the Cape in the last week of August.
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The cloth
See them printed →
Every print, on at least five bases.
The same color story on multiple surfaces.
For the moments
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The table you set once a year.
A wedding, a Juneteenth table, a cookout, a gift worth unwrapping slowly. Made to order in your colors, in time.
Inspired by places, credited to people
Explore the Library — 7,500+ pieces, 100+ traditions, on one map →
Every palette starts as a photograph on my phone.
Falmouth Harbor Light is the Sound at sunrise. Where a print draws on a tradition we name the tradition — and the whole archive of color, pattern and provenance is open to browse in our Library.
From the LibraryKenteAkan people · Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire
AzulejoPortugal & Spain · tin-glazed tile
ShiboriJapan · resist-dyed cloth
Greek keyThe Aegean · meander border
How it Works
Buy it made, make it yourself, or design your own.
Buy it made
Cushions, rugs, bedding, curtains and table linen, printed to order in the palette you choose and shipped from the mill. Nothing is held in stock, so nothing is ever the wrong color.
Made to order · ships from the mill Shop the palettes →Make it yourself
Sewing patterns, project books and craft guides you download now and make with your own hands — graduation stoles, pillows, hand-stitched kantha, headwraps. Every pattern carries its tradition’s story and credit.
Instant download · guides from free Browse the craft shop →Design your own
Request a bespoke design from our patterns and palettes. Free to explore and shop; membership to create.
Membership · $18 a month Open Shop →
Trade & design
For designers, stagers and showrooms.
Spec-ready palettes and patterns, documented and credited with origin — the line a designer repeats to their client. Request a swatch kit of up to twelve fabrics, or book half an hour on your project. Trade pricing comes with the kit.
Already sharing with design clients at a Falmouth interiors shop.
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