Hiring A Designer

Well, in other news, it was recently announced that Tillett Textiles, which is this small textile house that had been around for a long time has been acquired and revamped by Schumacher, shall we say.

So they've now sort of absorbed the company and they're breathing new life into it, which is so wonderful.

Yeah, I

have used till it from the jump.

I've always loved, I love designing things myself, you know, and it was always so easy to choose your color, choose your pattern, choose your background, choose your style.

ground.

And the designs are so iconic, like the greats have always used them.

And particularly Sister Parrish for Jackie Kennedy and then Bunny Mellon had several that she loved.

And Patrick, who was a family member, one of the owners, was kind of out there doing it all himself.

And there were moments when they were more responsive than others.

And there was a moment when I thought I'd gone away, but then came back and they were doing more.

But it's really wonderful.

And that's one of the services that I think Kravitz provides as well, is Scott goes in and when a iconic fabric house is about to fold or has folded, he buys their inventory.

So we, as the design community, don't lose those designs and patterns and often revives them.

And Schumacher is, you know, so great at execution and delivery.

So that's Wonderful to have them.

Do you know, will there still be the same level of customization?

That I don't know.

I do know offhand that Schumacher does offer a ton of customization.

Like if you wanted to do something completely custom with them, they would do it.

So I'm sure that if you approach them, they would be able to do some sort of customization.

But I think you sort of touched on a much broader sort of topic in the industry that I think is so important.

You know, so much artistry, artisanship, craftsmanship is kind of going by the wayside as time goes by.

And it's wonderful when a big company like Schumacher can come in and revitalize and provide, you know, a new chapter for a company like Tillett.

We also saw recently, last year, I think, David Netto bought, was it Woodard Weave? Yeah.