Spring is the perfect time to refresh your home's textile elements, creating spaces that help you unwind and recharge. As performance fabrics experts rather than interior designers, we have a perspective on how textiles contribute to mental wellbeing through sensory experiences.

The right fabrics don't just enhance aesthetics—they're fundamental to creating truly relaxing environments.

While interior designers focus on layouts and structural elements, we're passionate about how technically superior fabrics can transform a room's character, functionality, and emotional impact.

In a world that often feels overwhelming, the right fabrics create spaces where you can truly exhale.

In this guide, we're sharing our fabric expertise to help everyone create serene, calming spaces that align with the exciting design directions we're seeing in 2025.

Contents:

Creating your relaxation sanctuary with thoughtful fabric selection
Pastel textiles for stress-reducing environments
Green: The science-backed palette for tranquillity
Textile colour blocking for balanced energy flow
Materials and textures for sensory comfort and wellbeing
Vintage-inspired fabrics that evoke emotional comfort
NEW: Age of Aquarius – oceanic textiles for mindful spaces in 2025
NEW: Mystic Desert – grounding fabrics for spiritual calm

Creating your relaxation sanctuary with thoughtful fabric selection

When creating a truly relaxing environment this spring, fabrics play a fundamental role in how we experience space. The textiles surrounding us directly impact our stress levels, sleep quality, and overall wellbeing.

Our performance fabrics have undergone extensive sensory testing to evaluate their relaxation properties, measuring factors like tactile comfort, acoustic performance, and visual softness.

They're engineered not just to resist stains and maintain colour integrity, but to create spaces that tone down stress levels while still delivering exceptional durability.

Before selecting new textiles for your relaxation sanctuary, consider these 5 questions:

What daily stressors do you need your home to counterbalance? (Work pressure, digital overload, noise pollution?)
Which tactile sensations help you personally unwind? (Soft plushness, cooling smoothness, gentle weight?)
What practical durability requirements will ensure your relaxing space stays beautiful without causing maintenance anxiety?
Which textures and patterns help your mind shift from alert to relaxed states?
How can your fabric selections create multi-sensory comfort that supports both physical relaxation and mental decompression?

We recommend creating a digital mood board of fabric options that evoke your personal sense of calm, so when you're ready to make selections, you're guided by what truly helps you relax.

Try Mattoboard. It’s an online platform designed for creating and sharing 3D material boards. They feature FibreGuard and FR-One fabrics! Read our full case study: Design 3D material boards online with Mattoboard and FibreGuard

Even changing just your cushion covers or adding a weighted throw can dramatically transform a space from stimulating to soothing without a complete overhaul.

Pastel textiles for serene environments

Our technical expertise in dyeing processes allows us to achieve perfect pastel hues that maintain their integrity over time while creating a gentle, calming atmosphere.

Pastels are the introverts of the colour family. Think of delicate blush pinks, mint greens, baby blues, and buttery yellows. They’re easy shades to love, with a special simplicity and nostalgic charm to them. Pastel sofas and other furniture instantly give a space a gentle, chilled out feel. - From blush to mint: our guide to styling pastel upholstery

When it comes to maintaining pastel upholstery, FibreGuard’s stain resistant fabrics are your best friend. They're mighty where it counts: hard-wearing, soothingly soft to touch, and saturated with style.

All you need is water, a microfibre cloth, and perhaps a small bar of white household soap. There’s no need for toothbrushes or steel wool! Accidental stains are still removable even if some time has passed since the accident, but cleaning the spill up immediately is always better.

Check out the 4 step cleaning process here.

Green: The perfect performance fabrics palette for tranquillity

The enduring popularity of green textiles for relaxing spaces is no accident. Introducing natural elements through botanically-inspired patterns doesn't just look beautiful—these organic patterns create a visual connection to nature that many people find inherently calming.

According to 1stDibs's annual Interior Design Trends survey, emerald green remains their most popular colour for the fourth consecutive year, capturing 23% of the vote. As Anthony Barzilai Freund, 1stDibs's editorial director noted in Architectural Digest, "When a trend shows signs of great resilience, we think it ceases to be a trend and crosses into the realm of design classic or icon."

Our technical achievement lies in creating greens that not only look beautiful but maintain their soothing appeal over time.

From sage and pistachio to rich emerald, our green fabrics undergo rigorous stability testing to ensure their calming appearance remains consistent even in sun-drenched environments, maintaining their performance at the highest level in light-fastness tests.

Maintaining these properties alongside impressive stain resistance represents a technical challenge we're particularly proud to have mastered. After all, nothing disrupts relaxation quite like worrying about spills on your favourite sofa!

Textile colour blocking for balanced spaces

Colour blocking with fabrics offers a handy flexibility for creating zones of varying moods within a single space. Our precisely colour-matched fabrics allow you to design environments with different atmospheric qualities—from energizing to deeply calming.

Three approaches to relaxation-focused colour blocking with our performance fabrics:

Create a "decompression path" with gradually calming colours from entryway to relaxation zone—our velvet cushions against linen-look backgrounds provide both visual and tactile transitions to guide the unwinding process
Layer different fabric weights in the same colour family, with heavier fabrics in areas designated for deeper relaxation—the subtle pressure offering comfort benefits

The beauty of fabric colour blocking for relaxation lies in its adaptability—as your relaxation needs change with seasons or life circumstances, swapping textiles is far simpler than repainting.

Keep reading: Colour Blocking: how to make this bold trend work in your home

Materials and textures for comfortable upholstery

Our research and development team has pioneered innovative upholstery fabric constructions that enhance the comfort of your furniture pieces. We've created furnishing fabrics with varied texture profiles specifically selected to complement different seating styles—from formal living room sofas to casual family room sectionals. These advanced upholstery textiles maintain their appealing hand-feel even after years of regular use, thanks to our proprietary FibreGuard production process that protects the fabric while preserving its tactile qualities.

Our standout upholstery fabrics for 2025 include:

Plush velvet fabrics that offer exceptional softness for cushions and throw pillows
Textured plains with subtle colour variations that add visual interest to large furniture pieces
Durable jacquards that combine the look of traditional upholstery with modern stain resistance

Vintage-inspired fabrics that evoke emotional comfort

Our technical team has mastered the art of creating fabrics that can trigger a sense of nostalgic comfort.

Play with textures, detailing and embellishment. Delve into nostalgia, elevate your product with premium materials and finishes or exaggerate your kidult appeal. There is something for every palate in this trend, and the appetite is only growing. -- WGSN’s Top Trends for 2025 and Beyond

Pinterest calls this the "hipstoric home trend," noting that Boomers and Gen Z alike are searching for ways to surround themselves with keepsakes, collections, furnishing fabrics and furniture pieces, that all evoke the comfort of childhood spaces and cherished memories. Our response has been to develop fabrics that capture vintage charm while offering modern performance.

"Comfort is a key quality here—reassurance, familiarity, a feel-good aspect like bringing up a smile seeing it or touching it," says Gemma Riberti, head of interiors at international trend forecasting agency WGSN in Elle Decor.

NEW: Age of Aquarius - oceanic-inspired textiles for mindful spaces in 2025

For 2025, we're especially excited to introduce fabrics that are perfect for mindfulness and meditation spaces, inspired by our Age of Aquarius trend. This oceanic-influenced direction celebrates subtle wave-like patterns, iridescent threads, and ethereal colour shifts that invite contemplation and reflection.

What makes our relaxation-focused fabrics truly special is their engineering.

Despite their delicate, ethereal appearance, all of our fabrics, even the most delicate, been designed with practical everyday use in mind—resistant to imprints from extended sitting, breathable to prevent discomfort, and featuring exceptional stain resistance that's particularly challenging to achieve with lighter colourways or metallic elements. The result is a fabric that supports a peaceful atmosphere without creating anxiety about maintaining its beauty.

Key Elements of our Age of Aquarius Aesthetic:

Water-inspired textiles in reflective silvers, deep ceruleans, and soft sea glass greens that create serene, expansive atmospheres
Innovative constructions that create smooth, undulating surfaces reminiscent of gentle waves—textures that bring movement and dimension to static spaces
Variable density weaves that create visual depth without compromising comfort or flexibility
High-performance synthetic fibres with the luxurious hand of natural silk and linen, delivering remarkable durability with water-like drape
Patterns inspired by rippling water effects and fluid geometries, thoughtfully scaled to create rhythmic visual movement across upholstered pieces

NEW: Mystic Desert - grounding performance fabrics for spiritual calm

Our second major relaxation trend for 2025 draws inspiration from desert landscapes and spiritual traditions that emphasize connection to earth energies. The Mystic Desert collection features grounding fabrics in warm terracotta, sand, and clay tones with strategically placed accents of turquoise and sunset orange—colours that create a balanced, harmonious palette.

We’re talking textiles that deliver both visual and tactile appeal—fabrics with multi-dimensional textures that mimic natural earth formations while providing pleasing tactile variation.

Key elements of our Mystic Desert aesthetic:

Earth-toned textiles in hues that create a warm, inviting atmosphere
Specialised constructions that create tactile, rippled surfaces reminiscent of wind-carved sandstone—textures that add interest and depth
Slubbed yarns create subtle pressure without bulk
Natural fibre aesthetics with synthetic fibre performance
Patterns inspired by ancient spiritual symbols and desert landscapes, carefully scaled to create beautiful visual rhythms

Creating your relaxing spring sanctuary made simple

Transforming your home into a true relaxation sanctuary this spring doesn't require architectural overhauls or expensive renovations.

Our technically advanced performance fabrics offer an accessible way to create genuinely restorative spaces with minimal effort but maximum impact. Whether you're drawn to the mindfulness-supporting qualities of Age of Aquarius or the grounding energy of Mystic Desert, our 2025 fabric collections deliver comfort, beauty and functionality in perfect balance.

What sets our relaxation fabrics apart is the thoughtful design behind their soothing properties. Years of research and development have resulted in textiles that not only look and feel extraordinary but enhance everyday wellbeing in real homes with real life happening in them.

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We invite designers, manufacturers, and retailers to consider how these design directions might influence your 2025 offerings. Contact your FibreGuard representative to discuss how these trends might enhance your product development strategy.

Spring fabric inspiration: relaxing spaces and our 2025 Trends