While High Point, North Carolina’s semiannual furniture market gets probably the most shine, the town’s other trade show — the Interwoven textile fair — offers an arguably higher glimpse into the long run trends of home design.

“Nearly all of trends start in textiles,” said Jaye Anna Mize, vice chairman, home and lifestyle, of trend forecasting agency Fashion Snoops. The corporate partnered with Interwoven to present a gallery of trends impacting the house in the course of the most up-to-date show.

Interwoven, which is placed on each May and November by the International Textile Alliance, brings upholstery makers from across the globe to supply their latest designs to furniture manufacturers and interior designers. Those designs represent the trends that may influence the house over the subsequent few seasons.

Here, a take a look at a few of the key trends from the show:

Hot Hues

Color-wise, the warming of the house palette is prone to proceed to expand over the subsequent yr or two, with a few of the more subdued shades that got here into prominence in the course of the pandemic stepping aside for bolder interpretations.

“Brights are coming to the forefront,” Mize said. “We’re really grounded in loads of these pinks and purples, which we haven’t been in for some time — we were more within the mauve pink realm, and now we’re moving into more vibrant coral hues.”

Citrusy shades also play a job on this brighter resurgence.

“I’m loving these limier greens, these brighter pops of yellows,” Mize said. “And we’re continuing the orange conversation from last fall — orange is certainly one of the strongest colours entering the market.”

These bolder hues often are paired with more earthy blues and greens, reflecting the colourful palette of nature. That color play showed up in Interwoven showrooms comparable to Milliken, which launched its Spring Garden collection, heavily influenced by natural world.

“With the Spring Garden collection, it’s very vibrant with loads of green and blue like leaves and sky, after which the pinks for the flowers,” said Linda Alley, design manager at Milliken. “It’s about brining the outside in.”

Neutrals proceed their warming trend, taking them farther from the chilly grays of a couple of years ago and deeper into toasty browns.

“Brownish hues with beautiful creams are coming to the forefront,” Mize said. “We’re getting out of those stark hues and adding some layers to the white conversation. So that you’re seeing under-casted purples and pinks that make you are feeling protected and make you are taking a breath. Also oranges, lavender-y purple hues, in addition to blues and olives bring a more traditional vibe.”

Takes on Texture

Comfort became key in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that desire for coziness still reverberates through home textiles.

“We’re still feeling loads of unrest and unpredictability mount around the globe and we’re led to hunt softness in our own lives,” Mize said.

That softness appears within the resurgence of velvets — also big in fashion collections for fall 2023 — and the continued use of novelty yarns comparable to boucle, in addition to in overstuffed silhouettes on upholstered pieces.

“A variety of cloud-like interpretations are coming into prominence,” Mize said. “Sofas and fabric pieces are almost attending to where they’re huggable, in a way of things that make you are feeling ultra comfortable.”

Mize said mixing materials through interweaving has develop into necessary, too. That appeared in quite a few showrooms at Interwoven, from DeLeo Textiles to Sunbrella, which launched several fabrics featuring a mix of materials. Of those, Sunbrella’s latest recycled collection created by textile designer Richard Frinier featured a mixture of latest and renewed yarns.

“Considered one of the important thing themes you’ll see is that this warming up of neutrals and a mix of textures, whether it’s through weave effects or novelty yarn effects,” said Amy Gillam, design manager at Sunbrella. “It’s something we’ve found consumers want.”

Pattern Play

The softness and heat influencing color and texture also figure into pattern trends, taking the rigidity out of classics with a more free-flowing interpretation.

“We’ve really come to embrace this fluid state of being that refuses to be defined by binary conventions,” Mize said. “We’re breaking boundaries going forward, and what we’re in search of is festivity within the face of adversity. Mother nature is heavily represented.”

Natural influences figure prominently in home textile pattern trends, but not in an overt way. While florals are definitely having a moment again, natural touches soften more traditional motifs.

“We’re seeing loads of wispier strokes, particularly in stripes,” Mize said. “Stripes are at all times present, but they’re a bit more organic than before — they’re soft, they’re blended, they’re a bit more laid-back.”

Sunbrella offered several fresh interpretations of classic patterns, from stripes to houndstooth, with a softer approach.

“We’re taking classic patterns and reinventing them, and it has a distressed over-dye,” Gillam said.

Circular and swirling patterns appear in quite a few ways in home textiles, be they more water-inspired or in the shape of celestial motifs.

“Radiant bursts and spherical patterns that symbolize deeply held values as we try to enhance our modern-day balance,” Gillam said. “We talk rather a lot about circles and concentric design being a healing modality, particularly inside prints. We’re seeing loads of those concentric applications coming through representing things just like the moon and other things in nature with symmetry.”

Classic checks are back as well, driven partly by the influence of Generation Z. But today’s checks have a brisker, less structured feel.

“There’s this warm luminescence to the checks,” Mize said. “They’re not so strict or so traditional — they’re being broken out and having more of a dye effect or simply being brought along with rather a lot more funky hues.”

Mize said these updated takes on classics represent the changing nature of the trend cycle within the wake of the pandemic, particularly for the house category. Trends comparable to nostalgia, wellness and luxury have been around for a couple of seasons now, and Mize said they’re prone to persist as consumers crave subtle updates over wholesale change in the house.

“The trend curve is slowing down,” she said. “We went through COVID-19 and redecorated our homes. We’ve got our staples, so what we’re in search of now’s so as to add a bit something without necessarily reinventing the wheel.”