Aussino adds bedspreads and shower curtains, grows towels

-- Home Textiles Today, 10/21/2004 12:08:00 PM

NEW YORK — Aussino USA has introduced reversible, highly stitched bedspreads for the first time featuring positive/negative styling in light to dark colorations.

Some of the bedspreads are solid color, while others are patterned. The company also added a pima cotton blanket line with 15 unique styles, each in five to seven fashion colors set to retail for $49.99 queen.Also new are both formal and casual shower curtains that work back to bedding ensembles. More than a dozen shower curtains were shown at the recent New York Home Textiles Market, including some pieced items with multiple fabrications. There were 20 new embellished towels.Ten new looks were added to the growing juvenile bedding line. Fashion bedding looked lighter and more contemporary this market, one of the new designs including a white pique bed featuring framed bands in coral, kiwi or aqua.