About Heather Taylor
“What could you do for hours without looking at the clock?” “Sewing”, I replied. “Then do that”, said Wilma
For over 25 years, Heather Taylor has been crafting custom window treatments and upholstery from her Connecticut workroom for homeowners and interior designers.
Besides a childhood love of sewing, life experience has brought her to confidently open Custom Textiles in 2003. A graduate of Industrial Design from RISD in 1982, Heather started a career of environmental graphics for commercial interiors and public landscapes. She also designed a line of dance costumes printed by McCalls, and conducted a sewing school for many years called Bobbins and Threads, all while raising two remarkable children.
Based in Connecticut, Heather works with homeowners and interior designers who value quality over convenience. Heather has a curated library of fabrics and hardware she brings to in-home consultations. Interior design is constantly changing and the workroom needs to be on trend as well. Heather continues to attend trade shows, seminars and retreats to learn of new products, and skills. Heather has been an instructor at the Custom Workroom Conferences, and presented as the IWCE Conference.
Whether you need a single roman shade or a whole-home window treatment project, Heather provides meticulous care with every detail right to intallation.
The sewing workroom is a quaint, 500-square-foot, stone building located on my property in the western hills of Burlington Connecticut. My country home with this field stone building was built by a Czechoslovakian lumberjack, John Rico, and his family of six children in the early 1900s. Besides building furniture, he would make hand carved kitchen utensils and water buckets to sell in local towns. After progressive years of renovations to the windows, floor, heating and landscape this studio is now a ladies machine shop for Custom Textiles. It is fully equipped with industrial sewing machines, large tables and tons of trims and fabrics! This is my "happy place".
