Harmony
founder, creative director
latest news and blog sightings
Summer, 2008
Living Crafts
Living Craft's summer issue features, on its cover, our Eyes of the World fabric. (Click image to left for larger view.) Inside the magazine is instructions for how to knit the red cape and where to order the pattern for the apron. This magazine's tag line is, "Craft your whole life".
March 11, 2008
Crafting a Green World
Crafting a Green World is a blog dedicated to diy projects with an environmental emphasis. Their post, Fabulous Fabrics: Harmony Art Organic Design, gave a nice glimpse into the Harmony Art world.
March 10, 2008
Red Thread Studio: Slow Cloth, New Cloth, Art Cloth
Sustainable Textile Resources and 5 Things I've Learned highlights Harmony Art and several other resources for people looking for sustainable fabrics. The author Elaine Lipson also makes some great points about fashion, sustainability and textiles.
March, 2008
domino
Domino's March green-themed issue, featured Harmony Art in their green-fabric rolodex, "A fair-trade-oriented wholesale designer of delightful prints."
February, 2008
Treehugger
The online magazine
Treehugger has a post (New Fabrics from Harmony Art: Moon and Whispering Grass B/W) featuring our latest releases of organic printed fabrics.
December, 2007
home Know-It-All
Harmony Art organic design fabrics were featured on the home Know-It-All blog, your one-stop shop for home design, improvement, and repair.
December, 2007
New Harmony Art Distributor Added
Organic Fabric Online has become the latest member of the Harmony Art distribution team. Located in Victoria, Australia, Organic Fabric Online will be servicing retail and wholesale customers "down under". Founder of Harmony Art, Harmony Susalla, says. "The interest we have had from this part of the world has been growing. We are very happy to be working with Organic Fabric Online."
July, 2007
eInsider - by Quilts, Inc.
Volume 2, Issue 1 of eInsider (the electronic newsletter for quilting and the soft crafts industry) has an article entitled Green Quilting: Improving the Earth One Fiber at a Time in which several eco-designers are mentioned and quoted. We are happy to have been included. One of the pictures used in the article is of an Amy Bulter pillow which was created using our fabrics and sewn by local fiber artist Marilyn Limbaugh.
April, 2007
Fashion Institute of Technology
As part of FIT's An Introduction to Sustainable Business and Design Conference Harmony has been invited to speak. Other speakers include representatives from EnviroTextiles, Timberland and Johnson and Johnson. Harmony Art fabrics will also be a part of the fashion show portion of this event. This event is open to the public but registration is requested.
March 13, 2007
Harmony Susalla to Speak at Westweek
Harmony will speaking Thursday, March 29th at 10am at the Pacific Design Center Green Gallery Suite no. B-261. She will be speaking about the recently adopted Global Organic Textile Standards and the work being done to create the Sustainable Textile Standards.
Click here to download a printable flyer for this event.
March 1, 2007
Harmony Art enters Convenient Truths video contest
Treehugger and Seventh Generation have created Convenient Truths: A Green Video Contest. This contest was designed to share solutions. We encourage you to watch the other videos and get inspired! Click here to watch and comment on our "Spend Wisely" video.
February 2007
Pilates Style Magazine
Harmony Art and the City Girl Designs tote bag were featured in the "Organic Rocks" Teaser Style section of Pilates Style magazine. The blurb goes on to say that Harmony Art could start a "ready-to-wear revolution". Click the image to the left to read the full article.
Winter 2007
Radiant Magazine
Harmony Art was featured in the Living Room, Living Green section of Radiant magazine. The magazine's tag line is "Life from the Inside Out". Click on image on left to see the full blurb.
December 12, 2006
The Worsted Witch
Harmony Art was featured again on The Worsted Witch blog. This post inspired me to add where grown, woven and printed info to all of the designs on my web site.
November 8, 2006
design TURF
Harmony Art was featured on the design TURF blog along with some great links to Eco-DIY projects. This blog is dedicated to green, modern design and is connected with re-modern.com.
November 8, 2006
Haute*Nature
Haute Nature, dedicated to ecologically based creative ideas, did a nice blog about Harmony Art and some of our friends: 10 Flowers, Enamore, Fiber Active Quilts and Organic Baby Shower.
November 1, 2006
A Dress A Day
Harmony Art Organic Design fabrics were featured in "FABRIC WEEK" on A Dress A Day blog. This fun and witty site focuses on dresses, fabrics, sewing and such.
October 10, 2006
Green Business of the Year Nominee
Harmony Art has made it into the top 10 for Co-op America's People's Choice Award for Green Business of the Year. Runoff voting continues through October 24th.
August 2006
Body + Soul
Harmony Art was featured in the Whole Living section of Body + Soul Magazine on page 18. Body + Soul is a Martha Stewart publication. "Most fabric stores don't carry much organic fabric....But now the California-based company Harmony Art is changing the trend." Click on image on left to read the full column.
July 13, 2006
HGTV.com
HGTV.com has a section on Organic Style - "Stylish ways to bring the colors and shapes of nature into your home" which highlights Harmony Art's "Let it Grow" design.
July 6, 2006
Funky Finds
Harmony Art fabrics have been featured on the Funky Finds Blog. This blog created by a graphic designer in Texas is an eclectic variety of creative and interesting "finds".
July 5, 2006
More Hip than Hippie Podcast
Harmony Art fabrics have been featured for the first time on a Podcast! Click on the link to have a listen for yourself to - More Hip than Hippie's cool approach to the eco-friendly lifestyle Podcast. The hosts Val and Dori have a real life and humorous approach to living with sustainability and style.
June 27, 2006
Fabulously Green
Harmony Art was featured on design blog
Fabulously Green. "This blog is a blend of style, sustainability and social responsibility...part blog, part directory." This is another fabulous spot worth bookmarking! Stephanie takes time and care with her posts. We are honored to be included.
June 21, 2006
Decor 8
Harmony Art was featured on design blog
Decor 8. This blog is dedicated to "fresh finds for hip spaces." We are thrilled to be included in this mainstream style conscious design blog.
June 20, 2006
Treehugger
The online magazine
Treehugger has a post (Harmony Art Adds New Textiles) featuring the recent release of our first 100% made in the USA organic printed fabrics.
May 28, 2006
The Worsted Witch
Harmony Art was featured on The Worsted Witch blog. We are honored to be noted by such a fun, intriguing and thoughtful blog. The blog also featured fellow organic print pioneers Mod Green Pod. If you haven't heard of them, they are worth checking out!
May/June 2006
VegNews
Harmony Art was featured in the Veg Picks Organic Cotton section of VegNews. "Harmony Susalla makes the connection between nature and spirituality without coming off as cheesy with her Harmony Art Fabrics."
April 7, 2006
Independent Coast Observer
Jo Rouse is a local reporter who does a weekly column in the Independent Coast Observer called Sustaining Ourselves. This week Harmony Art was featured. What a sweet home coming to return to after our trip to CT. Click image on left to read the full article.
April 2006
Sustainable Industries Journal
Harmony is quoted in the article "Loose ends tied on organic fiber" about organic processing standards and certification.
April 6, 2006
Harmony Susalla to Speak at Fashion and Sustainability: Wearing Social Change at Yale University
Lecture to be held on April 6, 2006 - Linsley-Chittenden Hall 102 - 5:00pm
Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Textile history is full of scandal, slavery, child labor, pollution, and environmental degradation. By looking at cotton's sordid past, Harmony Susalla believes she has found a portal to its future. For more details and to read about the other events go to www.wearingchange.org.
March 2006
Sustainable Industries Journal
Harmony Art Organic prints were featured in the SIJ Product Spotlight of the March issue of Sustainable Industries Journal.
February 2006
Harmony Susalla to Speak at the de Young Museum
Lecture to be held on March 18, 2006 - Koret Auditorium - 10:00am
de Young Museum - Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Textile history is full of scandal, slavery, child labor, pollution, and environmental degradation. By looking at cotton's sordid past, Harmony Susalla believes she has found a portal to its future.
- Read the full press release.
February 2, 2006
Treehugger
The online magazine
Treehugger has a post (Cotton's Sordid Past: Harmony Susalla at the de Young Museum) featuring Harmony's upcoming speaking engagement at the de Young.
January 28, 2006
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The cover story for the Home and Garden section is "Going Green is keen" by Meg McConahey. Harmony is mentioned and quoted in the article.
February 2006
Sew News
The February 2006 issue of Sew News
features Harmony Art prints in their "what's new" section.
January 13, 2006
Treehugger
The online magazine
Treehugger has a post ("The future is green. Find it here.") featuring Harmony Art's organic textiles.
January/February 2006
Natural Home & Garden
In the latest issue of their magazine, Natural Home & Garden
has an article featuring Harmony Art's
Season One
fabrics.
August 2005
Harmony Art Organic Design Launches Designer Fabric Line
Harmony Susalla is a woman with a mission: to inspire environmental and social change through creative,
sustainable fabrics.
With the launch of her
Season One
line of printed fabric, Harmony Susalla, designer and founder of Harmony Art,
has brought the organic movement to designer fabrics.
- Read the full press release.
Living Craft's summer issue features, on its cover, our Eyes of the World fabric. (Click image to left for larger view.) Inside the magazine is instructions for how to knit the red cape and where to order the pattern for the apron. This magazine's tag line is, "Craft your whole life".
Harmony Art and the City Girl Designs tote bag were featured in the "Organic Rocks" Teaser Style section of Pilates Style magazine. The blurb goes on to say that Harmony Art could start a "ready-to-wear revolution". Click the image to the left to read the full article.
Harmony Art was featured in the Living Room, Living Green section of Radiant magazine. The magazine's tag line is "Life from the Inside Out". Click on image on left to see the full blurb.
Harmony Art was featured in the Whole Living section of Body + Soul Magazine on page 18. Body + Soul is a Martha Stewart publication. "Most fabric stores don't carry much organic fabric....But now the California-based company Harmony Art is changing the trend." Click on image on left to read the full column.
Harmony Art was featured in the Veg Picks Organic Cotton section of VegNews. "Harmony Susalla makes the connection between nature and spirituality without coming off as cheesy with her Harmony Art Fabrics."
Jo Rouse is a local reporter who does a weekly column in the Independent Coast Observer called Sustaining Ourselves. This week Harmony Art was featured. What a sweet home coming to return to after our trip to CT. Click image on left to read the full article.
The February 2006 issue of Sew News
features Harmony Art prints in their "what's new" section.
