The South Asia section of the Victoria and Albert museum is awash with plant patterns. If you are looking for a large amount of inspiration in one place, or you just want to plagiarise – everything a few centuries too old to be in copyright – then head here. Textiles, paintings, sculpture and more hang inside huge …

Paris is really something. All those huge sweeping vistas acting as a backdrop for pain au chocolat and cool french people. When in Paris, an art interested first-time tourist typically does the following – Louvre, Musee d’Orsay and Pompidou Centre – before heading, time permitting, to other places of interest; one such possibility being the …

This week London’s catwalks have again been awash with embroidered and printed flowers for Spring and Summer 2015 collections. Yet Autumn this year is up first and plant inspired botanical sweatshirts are where it’s at. The trend continues from last season of embracing bold graphic botanical prints over pretty floral sprigs but with a darker …

Lots of new wildflower inspired fabrics at Liberty out now – a prodigious 166 in fact. The new season takes its inspiration from ‘the study of wild gardens and represents the exuberance of nature, and wildness of the un-tamed spirit.’  What we really like about Liberty here, apart from its never-ending floral pattern creation,  is its …

If you want to cover a wall in interesting plant material or get a chair moulded out of it or even a lampshade made from it, then look no further than this company based in Austria. ORGANOID® produces 100% biodegradable material from ‘renewable resources’ that designers can then fashion into new and exciting objects. A …

Fabric designs are teeming with botanical and floral artistry this Spring as always – plants are always on trend, every season, in one form or another. We particularly like those designers that avoid the well-known plants and floral cliches, going instead for something different. Ferns seem to be popular at the moment with both Sanderson …

If anyone tells you that a scarf printed with plants is not cool, they are tragically misguided and just plain wrong. These floracentric quadrilateral pieces of material look as good on young men as they do on old women, and as good on young women as they do on old men, not to mention kids …