FAQs

  • Our fabrics and wallpapers are printed to order in the UK using small companies and environmental materials. We print to order to avoid holding extra stock or creating waste.

    Our cottons and linens are printed and sent to you within ten working days.

    Wallpapers are delivered within 15 working days.

    Our cotton velvet take a little longer and is usually sent to you within four weeks.

  • Our fabrics and wallpapers are printed using sustainable and UV resistant dyes.

    Fabrics should be washed at no hotter than 30 degrees and as they are natural fabrics, may shrink by 4-5% on the first wash:

    Wash on a delicate machine cycle at 30 °C / 85F. Delicate tumble cycle on a low heat. Iron on a medium heat using steam, ironing print side down for best results. Do not bleach. Do not dry clean. Shrinkage estimated 4-8%.

  • Our fern designs are very popular because they are a soft design and complement most colour schemes. We produce the fern design in a selection of scales and with different backgrounds to suit any interior style.

  • Katy comes up with each design herself, and creates it over a couple of months. It is then printed and tested for suitability as a furnishing fabric (for example to check that the design sits happily in the middle of a wing back chair or set of curtains), then we add it to our website as a new piece in our collection.

  • We’d be delighted to send you some samples of any fabrics or wallpapers that you’re interested in. Email us at: katy@katymintyrebrown.com and we can send some out to you

  • There are huge benefits to using environmental, natural, sustainable and organic fabrics. All the fabrics we use are derived from plants, so have a lovely feel, take dyes well and are strong. The dyes we use are natural so have a strong resistance to being bleached or changing colour in the sun. The cotton velvets we use are incredibly soft, luxurious and indulgent, and wonderful to sit on or hold in your hands when you open and shut your curtains.

    And using sustainable fabrics is good for the earth and therefore for us.

  • We can create bespoke wallpaper or fabric designs especially for you by matching a ground, or background colour for a chosen design with your colour scheme.

  • To create custom made prints we ask you for the paint colours you are using, then colour-match them with a Pantone* colour code, and create a background using this colour. We then send you a sample to check that it works for you, and go from there.

  • We send our UK orders to you via signed for, registered post through the Royal Mail. Overseas orders will be sent to you via UPS or DHL depending on which is best for your region.

  • We currently send our fabrics to clients in the UK, US, Canada and Europe. However, if a customer has a courier service they trust and is happy to arrange their own postage, then we are alway very happy to send our fabrics further afield.

  • Our fabrics and tablecloths are printed to order so cannot be returned. Our tea towels can be returned if defective.

  • We sell our furnishing fabrics exclusively through our websites or at our pop up shops. As our designer furnishing fabrics are organic, sustainable, and printed in the UK, they are high end and expensive to produce. We would like to make them available to you for as good a price as we can considering their quality, so only sell them directly, we do not sell through anyone else.

  • Our minimum order is one metre of fabric.

  • We are always very happy to discuss bespoke interiors projects. Our botanical furnishing fabrics and wallpapers are printed to order by the metre and we are happy to offer trade discounts on any orders over ten metres.

    Our trade discounts apply to the number of metres ordered, so if you order five metres of one design and five metres of another, the ten metre discount will be applied.

    In addition we can talk to you about colour matching our fabrics to your colour palettes.

  • If there is a design you particularly like, we can create a wallpaper for you. We can also match the background to your colour scheme and maybe the scale to make the design larger or smaller if this works better.

  • It takes many months to create a Katy Botanicals design so we don’t offer custom designs, we can however work with you to match the colour of a design to your interiors colour scheme.

  • Katy regularly hosts botanical painting workshops. To find out more and to sign up, please visit our ‘workshops’ page on the website, or click here: botanical painting workshops