Wiggle Wallpaper and Fabric
Wiggle designs take the classic stripe and let it loosen up. Fluid, wavy lines and hand-drawn squiggles bring movement and personality to a room, and because this collection holds both wallpaper and fabric, it is easy to carry the same playful line from the walls to the soft furnishings.
The design that gives the page its name is Wiggle by Harlequin, from the Sophie Robinson collaboration, which suggests the flight path of a butterfly drifting through an English garden. Scion are the other great exponent. Oakham wallpaper includes Oakham itself, a large-scale stripe adapted from a crewel work, Raft Stripe, taken from a lino print, and Bimble, drawn from an embroidery, while Oakham fabric adds Split Pea, a witty mix of watery wiggles, spots and stripes from a block print in the archive.
For a joyful, painterly squiggle, look at Wriggle Room in the GP & J Baker Kit Kemp collection. Parker & Jules refine the stripe with a fluid, hand-drawn scroll printed on linen in Circles and Straights, and York Wallcoverings soften a formal stripe with slender rippling lines in a metallic thread in Dazzling Dimensions.
Wiggles sit between striped wallpaper and retro wallpaper, and the stitched versions appear in embroidered fabric. Our piece Same Look, Different Budget on Decorating Notes shows how to get the look at different price points.
