One Print. Three Markets. Lace Lives Everywhere
Lace is having a moment — and not the delicate, precious kind that lives behind glass. The lace moving through both apparel and interiors right now is bold, structured, and deeply intentional. It's showing up on runway hems, wallpaper drops, and textile collections as a pattern that commands a room rather than simply decorating it.
I've been watching this shift for a while. And quietly, I've been building toward it.
Introducing Papyrus Lace
Papyrus Lace is one of the prints I'm most proud of in the Nile Reverie collection — and honestly one of the hardest I've ever made. Weeks of layering, testing, pulling back, and rebuilding until the repeat read as unmistakably faux lace without tipping into anything that looked like a tossed floral on a net.
The scallop edge with its trailing fringe is the heart of the print. It has the gravity real lace has — a top, a bottom, a direction. It moves the way lace moves.
Three Colorways. Three Markets.
Papyrus Lace lives in three colorways, and each one found its own natural home.
Luxe — black and cream — translates into wallpaper with quiet authority. This is the colorway for a library, a dressing room, a bedroom that takes itself seriously.
Relic — copper and aubergine — belongs on the body. Rich, unexpected, and very current for ready-to-wear. This is the colorway an art director screenshots at 11pm.
Dunes & Petals — copper with pink — works beautifully at a smaller scale. Which brings me to the part of this print I find most exciting.
The Trim Opportunity
The scallop edge of Papyrus Lace isn't just a design detail — it's a standalone commercial application. Scaled down and isolated, that border becomes a trim print. A swimsuit neckline. A hem detail. A ribbon running the length of a sleeve.
This is something I understand from my years working with lace in apparel — the edge of a lace print is often where the real value lives. The repeat gets you the fabric. The edge gets you the trim. One print, two revenue streams, three markets.
That's the kind of thinking I bring to every pattern I design.
Available in all three colorways for womenswear, home, and trim licensing.Enquiries welcome.
Painted with intention. Storied from the start.— Ellie Day
