Designers Guild
1,176 fabrics from Designers Guild, photographed into our library across 285 collections. Narrow them in the finder, then feel the shortlist at the Heybridge showroom.
- Founded
- 1970
- Where
- London, England
- Known for
- Bold colour and pattern, from a house built on it
About Designers Guild
Designers Guild was established in 1970 by Tricia Guild, and the shop at 277 King's Road opened in November the following year. It is still owned and run by Tricia Guild, as founder and creative director, with her brother Simon Jeffreys as group chief executive; he joined in 1986.
The company was given the Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1991 and again in 1996, and Tricia Guild received an OBE for services to interior design in 2008. It has worked with artists throughout, from Kaffe Fassett, whose first collection came in 1976, to Howard Hodgkin, with whom Tricia Guild made the enormous tulip fabrics of Large Flowers. It also holds licences for other names, becoming exclusive licensee for Ralph Lauren fabric and wallpaper in 1999 and gaining a Royal Collection licence in 2007.
By its fiftieth anniversary the ranges ran to nearly nine thousand fabrics and turnover was over fifty million pounds, marked with an exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. The group employs more than 280 people in the United Kingdom, with showrooms in New York, Paris, Stockholm and Munich.
When someone comes in and says they want colour, this is the first book we pull. It is the house that will still have a shade nobody else weaves.
Sources, checked in July 2026: designersguild.com/en-gb/company-profile/l1004, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designers_Guild
The collections we hold.
Every one of these is photographed, tagged and searchable. Open a collection in the finder, or ask us to bring the book.
Scenes and Murals Wallpaper
40 fabrics
Mineral Weaves Fabrics
35 fabrics
Scenes & Murals III Wallpaper
32 fabrics
Naturally V Fabrics
23 fabrics
Essentials Black & White Fabrics
17 fabrics
Pottery Studio Fabrics, Braids & Wallpaper
17 fabrics
Contract Essentials Fabrics
16 fabrics
Ghirlanda Fabrics
15 fabrics
Trevenna Fabrics
15 fabrics
Fabric collections and photography by Designers Guild.
The palette, as it actually falls.
Counted across the whole range we hold, not chosen. Each swatch opens the fabric it was taken from.
What it is, and what it will take.
- Mostly polyester
- 33% of the compositions we hold lead on polyester, then cotton, linen, viscose
- 140 cm wide
- the usual bolt width here, on 16% of the range
- Pattern
- plain (341), floral (269), stripe (173)
- Made for
- curtains and upholstery (390), wallpaper (312), curtains (255), upholstery (219)
- Types
- Fabric (832), Wallpaper (312), Outdoor (29), Velvet (3)
What this house publishes with every fabric, as a share of the ones we hold:
- What it is made of 100%
- Width 100%
Where we use it.
Houses that sit well beside it.
- House of Hackney550 fabrics in the library
- Andrew Martin943 fabrics in the library
- LibertyLiberty prints and Tana Lawn cotton, from a 60,000 piece archive
- Christian Lacroix154 fabrics in the library
- Ralph Lauren379 fabrics in the library
- William Yeoward156 fabrics in the library
Bring the room, we will bring the books.
Send a photograph and a rough size and we will reply with a personal quote, using an average price fabric.