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We always love getting new echino fabric deliveries, it’s so exciting to open the boxes and see all the beautiful new prints. We couldn’t be much happier with the latest 10th anniversary collection, all the fabrics look really stunning. All of them are a cotton/linen blend and have vibrant colors. The samber line shows one of the most popular echino designs – the beautiful stag with glasses – combined with irregular polka dots. arc features birds with a nice arc pattern and parakeet has a great dotted Chevron print paired with birds. zon is a great line with safari animals and lots of geo prints that look a bit like big stripes of Masking Tape. The last new line of the collection is landscape with the abstract design of mountains and birds.

Each design is available in different colors.

We now have the beautiful 10th Anniversary echino fabric collection in our shop

natural-colored echino samber canvas fabric stag with polka dots from Japan

light grey echino samber canvas fabric stag with polka dots from Japan

teal echino samber canvas fabric stag with polka dots from Japan

yellow echino arc canvas fabric bird wave fish scale

hot pink echino arc canvas fabric bird wave fish scale

black echino parakeet canvas fabric bird parakeet Chevron pattern

blue echino parakeet canvas fabric bird parakeet Chevron pattern

green echino zon canvas fabric pattern safari animals from Japan

turquoise echino zon canvas fabric pattern safari animals from Japan

natural-colored echino zon canvas fabric pattern safari animals from Japan

echino landscape canvas fabric blue-yellow from Japan bird mountain

echino landscape canvas fabric coral-grey from Japan bird mountain

Of course echino stands for beautiful Japanese fabrics designed by Etsuko Furuya,but did you know that they also offer already manufactured goods sewed with their material? Every now and then we get little catalogues showing really beautiful items like bags, cushions, dresses, shirts, skirts and more. But this time especially the model presenting the latest stuff caught our attention. She looked somewhat familiar. And then we remembered: We knew here from our last trip to Japan where part of our team went recently. The pretty cover model Hannah is actually working for Kokka, the fabric company distributing echino products. But being a part-time model is not a bad idea either, we think she does a really great job.

So here are a few impressions of her first big model job. Although we have to admit it is a bit hard to pay attention to her when there are all these colourful echino items around. If you ever need inspiration what to use those fabrics for or are not sure how a certain type looks ‘used’, take a look at those pictures. Echino fabrics are just stunning when used for bags and also make incredibly unique clothes. Our favourite is probably the wonderful skirt on the last picture sewed with the amazing echino canvas bird fabric in blue that we also sell at our shop. Most of the items you can see on those pictures are made with the latest echino collection.

Hannah in a colourful dress made with echino fabric

You almost do not know where to look – pretty things everywhere

Black, green, pink – that echino fabric just looks great in all colours

Which one to choose? All those bags are just beautiful

This dress is an absolute eye catcher – but the funny animal pillows are too

One of our favourites: a skirt made with a blue canvas bird fabric