Melina Copass is so wild about bark cloth, the abstract-patterned upholstery fabric of old, that four years ago she started reproducing the material - scanning scraps of cloth, tweaking the design, producing transparencies to make the silk screens, and finally printing the fabric by hand.
A one-woman digital cottage industry, Copass sells her wares at www.melinamade.com/. "The Web is the best place to look for something hard to find," the 29-year-old insists, and indeed, many have found her. Both Disney's new and improved Tomorrowland and MTV's Santa Monica HQ are decked in Melina-made fabrics.
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