John Robshaw Textiles

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John Robshaw Textiles

Block printed textiles from India including bedding, furniture, tabletop, gifts & accessories, vintage, and more.

After earning a fine arts degree at Pratt and studying traditional block printing in China, John Robshaw journeyed to India to find natural indigo dye for his paintings. Instead, he fell in love with the fabric-making traditions of the local artisans. The hands-on immediacy and vitality of textiles piqued what was to become a lifelong fascination.

24/09/2026

Dug these old textiles out of hiding and decided they deserved another spin. Rachel photographed them, and somehow I ended up wearing half the archive.⁠
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22/09/2026

My Velvet Moss Quilt captured beautifully in the morning light for PARADE Magazine by Linda Weisberg, LW Interiors, Newton, MA. Marni Elyse Katz | Creative Consultant for Designers and Great work!

20/09/2026

John Robshaw fabrics finding their way to the corners worth lingering in: a window seat, a breakfast nook, a porch sofa.

1.Aleppo Sage Performance Fabric by Annie Delaporte Designs julie.leffell.photo Kimberly Power Creative
2.Lasan Lapis Fabric by Virginia Day O’Donohue Rikki Snyder
3.Lanka Seaglass Fabric by Teresa Kamer
4.Marmar Azure Performance Fabric by Lex & Hudson Sean Litchfield

18/09/2026

Crisp white medallions, repeated by hand, a subtle nod to the centuries-old printing tradition of Jaipur, known for its fine geometric detail.

Hand block printed on natural cotton-linen, finished with hand stitched edging. Heritage, translated into a pillow you live with every day.

16/09/2026

Cinde has always felt like our take on rain to me, that stylized, almost graphic version of it. The workshop, though, took one look and started calling it “duckbills.” Which, honestly, might be the better name.

Either way, it’s now living in Navy, a deeper, more saturated cousin of our Indigo, on our organic sheet sets. Duckbills or rain, it’s a good one.

Photo: Rachel Robshaw
Styling: Mary O’Brien Spurrier

14/09/2026

Palm trees, ocean air, and our hand-stitched indigo quilt looking right at home — from for .

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10/09/2026

Behind every pillow is a person. In Jaipur, our block printers, aprons stained from years at the table, carry forward techniques centuries old. Their hands turn John’s vision into pattern; that pattern becomes part of your home, a thousand miles from where it began. Craft is the bridge.

07/09/2026

There's no such thing as a moody marigold pillow. This color carries all the vibrancy of a flower that's marked celebration for centuries.

05/09/2026

Day 1: After a 3 AM arrival that morning, we surfaced around noon and had a late lunch at the YURTA Boutique Hotel restaurant, a local institution. Horse meat and kumis featured heavily on the menu — a favorite of Rachel’s, if no one else’s. The Welcome Set alone offered five varieties, from smoked soft qymyz to a five-day strong version.

Afterward we took the cable car up Kok-Tobe Hill, a hilltop park with families, a zoo, a bouncy house, and kid chaos that makes an afternoon. Back down for dinner at a restaurant with folk dancers, though by then we were tired and grumpy, so it was an early night.

Day 2 started at the National Museum — a collection of textiles, carpets, dinosaurs, and gold jewelry under a Soviet-era hall, plus a wing of video installation work, including a Bill Viola piece and Richard Serra sculpture.

From there we walked to the park to see the Ascension (Zenkov) Cathedral, a wooden Russian cathedral, and fed pigeons in the square. I came away with a Russian hat.

Lunch was Korean — beef, bibimbap, fried chicken — which made our daughter happy. We closed the day at Dostyk Plaza, a mall whose top floor is a kids’ entertainment center: bouncy houses, games, the works.

This became a pattern — the price of dragging a six-year-old through museums all day is a kids’ park at the end of it. There’s also a Zara Home in the mall that was better than expected; she came away with a robe. Don’t tell anyone.

Day 3 started early at the Green Bazaar — an old market in a Russian building, full of dried fruit, nuts, honey, dried raspberries and strawberries, fresh bread, and lemonade for the road.

From there we walked to the Museum of Musical Instruments, a neoclassical wooden building (more pigeon-feeding nearby), and I ducked into the War Museum next door — exhibits of Russian and Kazakh uniforms and medals, somber diorama scenes, and sculpture in the surrounding park.

We finished with a ride on the Almaty metro to see its stations — three or four stops known for over-the-top mosaics and chandeliers, worth the detour. One last dinner back at YURTA to close out the Almaty leg.

02/09/2026

Pattern in progress. Our Lata Marigold pillow starts with hand-carved blocks and a lot of patience — geometric medallions inspired by traditional tilework, printed one press at a time.

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Mérida
97000

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