Artist Rebecca Atwood began her career as a product designer for Anthropologie and other brands before launching her eponymous textile line in New York a decade ago. After seven fruitful years in her Brooklyn studio, she and her family resettled in Charleston, a coastal escape nodding to her nostalgic Cape Cod upbringing.
Establishing her new studio in a burgeoning neighborhood called The Neck has provided triple the square footage and ample room for growth. With a sharpened focus on the trade, her textile techniques encompass digital printing, screen printing, weaving and embroidery. “I’m passionate about ensuring every product is just right before we release it; some designs can take up to two years to perfect,” Atwood reveals. A devotion to fine-tuning color and texture unites each creation, which she calls “an art form meant to be used and touched.”
By February, expect a new motif, Bubbly Leaves, plus alluring new hues of the perennially popular Oceanwave, Dashes and Speckled patterns. Wallcoverings range from clay-coated papers and grass cloth to non-woven fiber, but as Atwood’s studio scales up, so does production: Her first two scenic murals debuted this past fall, with two more arriving shortly.
