John Robshaw Textiles is bringing its hand-blocked, globally inspired textiles to Dallas Market Center, joining Textile Salon (IHDC 2F215-TS4) in time for Dallas Design Week, September 15–17. There, designers will get a first look at his prints, bedding, and home decor in person.
Textile Salon is Dallas Market Center's dedicated showcase for fine fabrics, trim, wallpaper, window and floor coverings, and decorative hardware.
Located on the second floor of the Interior Home + Design Center, the 7,000-square-foot shared showroom is open daily for the trade only, built for designers who want more than a catalog of SKUs. Alongside its lineup of leading brands, Textile Salon has become a gathering point for the design community, hosting talks, trend reports, and events tied to Market season.
A Designer Shaped by the Road
John Robshaw grew up in Buffalo, New York, and earned a fine arts degree from Pratt Institute before setting off across Asia to study printing traditions firsthand. In China and India, he learned block printing and natural indigo dye techniques directly from the artisans who had practiced them for generations. That education became the foundation of everything he makes.
"My philosophy both in art and in life was to try everything, plunge into my work with tons of energy and openness to whatever might happen, and let my aesthetic unfold along the way using any material, in any space, with anyone," Robshaw says.
Today, every John Robshaw Textiles piece still carries that hands-on approach. Quilts are hand stitched by master artisans. Blocks are carved and printed by hand. Pillows and tapestries are hand-painted. Sheets are hand-stitched. Nothing is rushed, and nothing is automated.
"To me, how a thing is made is as important as what it finally becomes," Robshaw says.
A Global Point of View
Each season, John Robshaw Textiles releases a new collection of prints across bedding, fabric, wallpaper, furniture, and loungewear. The line sells through both major retailers and boutique specialty stores, and it keeps returning to the same source of inspiration: travel.
"I keep an open mind as I approach every season, and I take trips to new as well as familiar places every several months — and always keep a ticket back to India in the mix," Robshaw says.
That habit of following the trip, rather than a fixed plan, drives the work itself.
"With every new encounter, every twist and turn of my itinerary, each new person or detail that jumps out at me as I go, I am shown the way to what I should make next," Robshaw says.
The results have landed in a variety of home publications, from Architectural Digest to The World of Interiors, and on multiple covers of Elle Decor. His textiles also outfit such luxury hotels as Santa Monica's Shutters on the Beach, The Crow's Nest in Montauk, and Greydon House in Nantucket.
Robshaw splits his time between New York's Lower East Side and Sharon, Connecticut, with his wife Rachel and daughter Regina, and runs his first retail shop nearby in Falls Village.
"I am going not as much for perfection as I am for personality," Robshaw says of his approach. "If they could, every one of my textiles would pipe up with a story. And not just a single story, but an interwoven narrative about a particular trip to a distant country, and the people I meet there, the ideas they inspire, and the techniques they are generous enough to teach me."
Experience John Robshaw Textiles at Dallas Design Week
Visit Textile Salon during Dallas Design Week, September 15–17, to see, touch, and admire John Robshaw Textiles in person.
A full schedule and registration details for Dallas Design Week are available at dallasmarketcenter.com.