Based in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands, Caroline Inchyra has created a range of unique and timeless printed linens. From the original archive-inspired linens first released in 2012, the Inchyra collection has expanded to include wallpapers, passementerie and co-ordinating accessories.
Inchyra produces only pure natural textiles with a quality that is as much about the feel as the look. These are fabrics with heritage, designed to bring a relaxed but luxurious approach to interiors. The colour palette is strong, running from deep reds, soft pinks, greens and mustard yellows, to aged blues and greys, colours which are then lent a softness through the artisanal finishes created by Caroline. The finish of these linens is particularly beautiful, derived as it is from the look and feel of antique linens, Caroline's passion for which led to the creation of the collection. Production processes honed over several years were designed to both knock the dye into the weave and soften the handle, replicating the character of the inspirational antique documents in Caroline's archive.
The same archive drives everything else. The wallcoverings take their patterns from the same documents as the linens and are printed to hang alongside them; the passementerie - woven braids, made in Britain - is designed to finish them. Nothing joins the collection unless it speaks to what is already there.
What started as an obsession with finding a way to recreate old linens, both in look and feel, has resulted in a collection which Country Life magazine applauds as being "admired for its subtle colour palette and fine quality sustainable linens".
Caroline says: "I find inspiration in something found, perhaps a scrap of antique fabric or an old shawl, and the route may be to simply recreate something that no longer exists and give it new life, or it may be to edit and play with form, colour or size to create something new. I try to always link what we're doing back to designs that we already have so that the whole collection works comfortably together. A house decorated in our fabrics feels lived in, it feels comfortably luxurious, you know that you are surrounded by a level of real quality."
"Caroline has her own subtly exuberant and relaxed take on design that would work in virtually any setting, only getting better with time"
Jenny Rose Innes in The Nature of Decorating
"Inchyra fabrics are utterly beautiful."
Maude Smith, The World of Interiors
Inchyra House, seen above, is at the heart of the Inchyra Estate near Perth, Scotland. It is Caroline's home, shared with her husband James, also a Director of the company - and it is where the business works from. The studio, the cutting room, the office and the archive are all here, and every order of fabric and passementerie is cut, wrapped and sent out from the house. Wallpapers are the exception: they travel to you direct from our printers. There is no warehouse and no factory floor. Wherever in the world you are ordering from it comes to you from this Scottish country house.