Jakob Schlaepfer has been enriching the world with fabrics for more than 100 years.

Each collection starts with textile visions for fashion and architecture. The unique combination of meticulous handcraft and industrial production leads to a luxurious product that captivates with its exclusivity and beauty. The design team creates more than 1200 new fabrics every year – always with the aspiration to impress customers worldwide with innovative ideas and high-quality workmanship.

The fabrics are conceived, tested and realised in St. Gallen. The in-house production and close cooperation with local partner firms enables Jakob Schlaepfer to work experimentally and to respond flexibly to the constant changes in fashion. Originally an embroidery company, Jakob Schlaepfer has continually adapted technological developments for the company’s own purposes. Today, for instance, the firm uses laser cutting, digital printing and state-of-the-art embroidery machines. This has made the fabric processing options more comprehensive and multifaceted.

Jakob Schlaepfer’s fashion fabrics, interior fabrics and accessories are diverse, while remaining distinctive. The company is not bound to any one style. Instead, it is characterised by the combination of local culture and textile tradition with future-oriented design.

Jakob Schlaepfer is an inspiration to couturiers, architects and fabric enthusiasts all around the world.

Color, in many varieties, is the guiding principle that runs through the interior fabric and wallpaper collection 2020. Color as a material, color schemes and expressively abstract paintings are what inspired the wallpaper and fabric designs. In a newly interpreted way, an artistic and expressive atmosphere is created for trendy, luxurious interior design.

The thread of innovations spins literarily around yarn, with which fabrics are woven, embroidered and colored. For example, loose threads packed between organza or a rich classic jacquard with floating weft threads is experimented with the jacquard-weaving mill and surpasses the limits of technology.

The collection includes novelties in textile technology and reinterprets well-known methods. An abundance of base materials such as linen, cotton or futuristic-looking polyester fabrics become unmistakable innovative Jakob Schlaepfer creations.

The color statement of the collection is fresh and has a spring-like expression.
Bright yellow, salmon orange and blue add accents to the neutral colors such as beige and putty gray.

Trama is a multicolored floral - jacquard fabric, where sections of the warp threads are partially omitted. The effect created by the loose weft threads is reminiscent of a digital glitch, but in the equivalent of a web image.

Filo is a masterpiece of jacquard - weaving and a breath of nothing. Colorful, loosely woven weft threads are wrapped in a transparent organza.
With Filo Punto a print is added on. They both can be used as semi-transparent drapery.

A technical innovation, Bauhaus and Sophie Täuber-Arp are the inspiration for Sophie, the embroidered mosaic, partially overprinted with a generous geometric design.

The surface of Elopaille, a classic sequin embroidery for which Jakob Schlaepfer is famous, is reminiscent of anodized aluminum. The four colors shine vividly in royal blue, chartreuse, brown and gray blue.

Nanette, a romantic country house fabric for the 21st century, captivates the combination of a classic cotton jacquard with foil application, applied by the latest laser embroidery technology.

Toon is a woven barré stripe, generous, multi-colored, with sophisticated ombre effects. Constructed with golden lurex in the warp and countless colors in the weft, a weaving masterpiece.

Painted porcelain for the window? Worcester sequin embroidery, overprinted with large bouquets, makes it possible.

Celerina draws inspiration from the luxurious St. Moritz chalets.
A faux fur embroidered with sequins, simultaneously avant-garde and traditional.

Airy, light linen is the base material for the prints Pia and Lia.
Pia is a modern painting for the window and Lia carries on the idea from the 19th century with its opulent floral ornaments, in a modern interpretation.

Jakob Schlaepfer launches eight new wallcovering designs for 2020 with the unmistakable and unique Jakob Schlaepfer signature.
Protagonists are narrative borders and opulent, large-scale all-over repeats. The designs are printed on a matt fleece, called Vello, or the base quality Glinka with a holographic iridescent foil.

Vello Vernice and Vello Emilio create abstract paintings for the wall.
With strong brushstrokes and unconventional coloring, Jakob Schlaepfer is breaking new ground in the designing of wallpaper.

Glinka Rello is a wallpaper like an oversized aquarelle. The dazzling hologram effect from Glinka adds depth to the rich colors of the abstract painted flowers.

All kinds of animals are hidden in the Glinka Kiriko wallpaper, which is laid out as a border. A hidden object design with a lot to discover.

Vello Bijoux an ornament composed of jewelry and iridescent glass chandeliers, „Diamonds are a girls best friends“!

The two designs Glinka Abbonda and Vello Stafford are baroque opulence. Both laid out as an oversized border in the wealth of shapes and colors that Jakob Schlaepfer have.

Glinka Catena, printed on the quality with hologram effect, was inspired by a warp.