WHITNEY ENGLISH

Fabric · Wallpaper · Licensing

It starts with something old.

A more beautiful everyday. Every pattern begins with an antique — an 18th-century chintz, a document in a museum drawer — reimagined for the way you live now.

Devonshire Damask in Light Indigo hung as wallpaper in a bedroom
Devonshire Damask · Light Indigo From the archive

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463 pattern collections

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Licensing & trade

The studio holds an archive of original patterns drawn from 18th-century sources — glazed chintzes, document florals, engraved toiles — redrawn by hand and recolored for contemporary interiors.

Designs are available for licensing across textiles, wallcovering, tabletop, stationery and home. Colorways can be matched to a specification, and scale, repeat and ground adjusted for a program.

  • Archive10,167 designs
  • Pattern collections463
  • CategoriesTextiles · Wallcovering · Home
  • Origin18th-century document
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Devonshire Damask as a table runner on a dining table

The studio

Something old, drawn again

Whitney English is a textile and wallpaper design studio. Every pattern begins with an antique — an 18th-century chintz, a document in a museum drawer, an engraved toile — and is redrawn by hand, then recolored for the way you live now.

Fabric and wallpaper are printed to order, so a pattern can be had by the yard or by the roll without a minimum. If a colorway isn't quite right for a room, the studio will change it — that's a conversation, not a special order.

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Charming Chintz thrown over a sofa in a sitting room

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