Home Textiles Today - April 1, 2002

Susan Sargent reacted to her first decorative fabrics collection for Robert Allen @ Home by asking "aren't they fun?"The whole collection, she said, "kind of evolved from where we started out —sketches for other products that we put into digital format as archives."Sargent, who has been producing high-end rugs and hand-painted bedding ensembles, said, "My color pal...

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