Mary Jaeger - Design in Textiles - New York’s Textile Accessories
| To see an array of Mary Jaeger’s fashion and home designs is to be immersed in a world of unorthodox color, pattern, and texture sensitivity, of spare elegance, and rich tradition. |
                    
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| Drawing on her visual knowledge from years of study and work in Asia, she creates timeless, well-constructed textile designs that cross easily from fashion to home accessories. The uncluttered, selectively detailed designs reflect her personal aesthetic, a melding of ancient Eastern and contemporary Western design. |
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Mary Jaeger graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Nihon Senshoku Gakuen, Kyoto, Japan. Mary began her career in New York, designing textiles for Mary McFadden and Jack Mulqueen. After several years of designing and working in New York, Jaeger found an opportunity to move to Japan where she studied and worked on couture collections with artisans in the kimono industry at Shiho International (Kyoto and Paris) and Koei Kogei Kinsai Yuzen Dyeing. She created collections of western-style clothing for the Japanese fashion market as a designer at Renown Industries and Deco Japan. She garnered the Association of Total Fashion Upcoming Designer Award (Osaka, Japan, 1988) and UW-Madison Distinguished Alumni Award (1993). |
| While living in Japan, and other parts of Asia, Jaeger learned many intricate, occasionally arcane, techniques of dyeing and manipulating fabric, including Japanese textile painting, Korean screen-printing technology, Malaysian and Indonesian batik, and Chinese embroidery. |
| There, Jaeger embraced what has become her own work ethic: meticulous attention to detail and an uncompromising insistence on quality. While in Asia, she collected traditional articles to reinterpret and incorporate into her singular, very contemporary line. Jaeger’s signature Tucked Wool Collection demonstrates architecturally designed surfaces that explore three-dimensional fabric manipulation, fulling and dyeing techniques. Her collection comprises women’s apparel: coats, jackets, capes, hats and bags, as well as shibori scarves and tees. She also offers home accessories: pillows, throws, coverlets, duvets, wall panels and ottomans. Jaeger’s Miss Plum line is for children. |
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| Jaeger’s Shibori scarves and tees have developed a cult following and are produced in the Jaeger studio. Each garment is hand-tied and dyed using the ancient shaped resist dye technique "Shibori" the Japanese verb meaning: to wring or squeeze. |
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The “Shibori” is accomplished by manipulating the textile using a cord that is wrapped around selected portions of the fabric, then cinched and tied; thus preventing the dye from penetrating that specific area when the fabric is submerged into the dye bath. The process is repeated numerous times to create complex bands of color and texture. Once the dye is set, the cord or clamps are removed revealing the wonderful pattern that was created. Each tee has its own unique characteristics, colors, and design that are rich in color and architecture. Jaeger’s Shibori tees and scarves are a fashionable alternative to the classic white blouse when dressing for the office. Add a gorgeous scarf, and now your black sheath has an elegant update. These one-of-a-kind hand made pieces are a wardrobe staple, always chic and will never go out of style! |
| Store Hours: Mon - Fri: 10 am - 5 pm After Hrs by Appointment Mary Jaeger - Design in Textiles 17 Laight Street, 2nd Floor Studio 21 Tribeca New York, NY 10013 Phone: (212) 625-0081 |
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