Ariel Grace Design - Custom Floorcloth Makers

07/08/2025

ome things are every bit as hard as they seem. This project was one of those. We were contacted in early 2024 by the director of The Chambers House museum in Beaumont, TX. She was looking to have the original linoleum from a 1924 kitchen renovation reproduced.

The background consists of four colors with an abstract squiggly line pattern. This is overprinted by two repeating triangular leaf patterns that repeat vertically, in opposite directions. Eleven stencils were created; three for the background, and four for both sets of leaves. Designing the stencils took months of trial and error. The floorcloth is wider than our canvas, so we used our double-layer technique to create a single sheet with an almost invisible seam. The stencil process was extremely laborious, due to the multiple layers. The effort was worth it. The floorcloth was installed in June 2025.

07/29/2024

Much of the first half of 2024 was devoted to producing this floorcloth for the Grafton Inn, c.1801, in the charming 600-person village of Grafton, Vermont. The has 42 guest rooms and several event and conference spaces including the Homestead Room where this floorcloth resides.

Visitors from around the globe can enjoy a slice of quintessential New England at both the inn and its environs. Grafton Village is known for its classic beauty, stunning scenery, and rural culture and the Inn is the center of the village.

The floorcloth pattern is an Early American design from the Esther Brazer Stevens Collection at the Museum of American Folk Art. Brazer Stevens recorded authentic stencil patterns, including this one from the Humphries House in Dorchester, MA, c.1800.

The floorcloth measures 16’ x 28’.

03/23/2024

Thank you, Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival!

Floorcloths as practical art.

03/01/2024

This sunroom/dining room is part of a stunning renovation of a lovely house in Chappaqua, New York. The floorcloth is from our Graves Series, and the design is based on a ceiling pattern in the 1889 Rober Graves Co Wallpaper Catalog. -design

11/08/2023

This floorcloth was commissioned by clients in Milton, Georgia. They were completing a kitchen renovation and painted their island Benjamin Moore's Raintree Green, which is also the leaf color in the floorcloth but done with a sea glass effect such that the density of the color is variable which gives this lovely pattern additional visual interest.

09/14/2023

We recently received the beautiful 2024 Resource Guide from and were delighted to be featured as a Guild artisan. The Guide is a gorgeous compilation of restoration stories and includes over 400 sources for products and services. Available on newsstands as of September 19th.

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09/14/2023

We recently got our copy of the beautiful 2024 Resource Guide from Arts & Crafts Homes and were delighted to be featured as a Guild artisan. The Guide is a gorgeous compilation of restoration stories and includes over 400 sources for products and services. On newsstands as of September 19th.

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09/05/2023

One of the oldest existing floorcloths in the US (c 1848) resides at Melrose, a National Park location in Natchez, Mississippi. We were commissioned to replicate the original design and create a new floorcloth to cover and preserve the original one which is in Melrose's entry.

The completely original pattern features a classic repeating diamond array that contains a border with an Early American-style lozenge and honeycomb display, surrounding an organic medallion. The colorway is reversed on every other diamond.

We spent months working to create stencils that would allow us to produce a design that is extremely faithful to the original with all of its organic sensibility, including rough-edged lines and imperfect shapes. We went back and forth with the park personnel until we had nailed every detail. Eleven stencils were required to reproduce the design

All aspects of this project were interesting and challenging.

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08/15/2023

Another floorcloth adorned with our Autumn Leaves pattern, based on a 1915 rug catalog that contained this unusual design by rug manufacturer Dominion Axminster. (Scroll to the last image to see the pattern source.)

This floorcloth resides in the dining room of a house in Provincetown, Massachusetts. We worked with several combinations of blues to get to the right balance and love the results!

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07/13/2023

This design for this floorcloth is based on a 5" x 7" watercolor provided by an interior designer. The lovely, little watercolor depicts an abstract sky. (Swipe to see additional photos including the inspirational watercolor.)

We worked with .e.moore, who we call on when designs lend themselves to hand painting vs. stenciling, to create this design. The colors are pink, blue and off-white, used in various densities to create the ethereal, sky-like effect.

This floorcloth resides in a dining room in Rhode Island.

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06/17/2023

Autumn Leaves is one of our prettiest patterns and it sure looks good with this adorable baby learning to crawl on it. Green is his best color!

This design was derived from a 1915 Frorlicht-Dunker rug catalog and the versatile pattern works for a variety of different floorcloth shapes and sizes.

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