The A1 Blog
Chapter 4
FALL PRINTS:
A SEASONAL STORY
Motifs, Mood & Meaning for Fall 2025
In our last chapter, we used fabric to bring complementary color pairings to life across this season’s Six Color Families. Now, we shift from color to pattern as we move from palette to print. With a new focus on Fall’s custom print direction, it is time to carry those lessons forward and apply what we’ve learned about color and pairing to create prints that tell a deeper, more meaningful story.
To support the 2025 Fall Trends Series, A1’s Custom Print department developed a collection of exclusive designs rooted in nature, home, heritage, and nostalgia. Guided by seasonal trend research, each print was thoughtfully constructed to reflect the spirit of the season. Base cloths were selected not only as a printing surface, but as part of the story by adding texture, depth, and mood to every piece.
The motifs in this collection blend rustic roots with modern refinement. Inspired by the familiar,harvest, home, and nature, they’re elevated through careful use of line, scale, and composition.
Just as color palettes set the tone for Fall events, custom prints bring those tones to life. They add character and a sense of place to every surface. Our Fall 2025 print collection is more than decorative. It’s intentional. Every theme, texture, and color treatment was chosen to reflect the layered beauty of the season. We’ve focused on the warmth of handcrafted textures, the familiarity of heritage motifs, and the quiet confidence of earthy palettes. Color gives us the tone. Print shapes the story. And this Fall, the strongest stories are grounded in nature. Let’s explore the 7 design motifs that set the mood and meaning for the 2025 Fall Custom Print collection.
Nature Inspired Icons
Familiar forms anchor the collection in authenticity and create a grounded, organic foundation.
Rendered in silhouette or hand-drawn line work provides quiet, nostalgic movement that’s subtle enough to support and strong enough to shape a scene.
Design Elements:
Oak leaves, woodland animals, mushrooms, pine branches, acorns, and ferns
Featured Prints:
Harvest Hollow – Mustard on Oxford
Woodland Silhouette – Rust on Poly Satin
Autumn Branches on Twill
Botanical Florals
Carry the mood forward with design elements arranged in relaxed, natural layouts.
Some feel loosely sketched, others more refined but all share a softness that brings calm and balance to the overall story.
Design Elements:
Wildflowers, vines, stems, blossoms, and foliage
Featured Prints:
Autumn Vine on Bali
Botanical Bold – Rust on Flax
Cambridge – Caramel on Panama
Botanical Light- Gold on Flax
Harvest + Home
Clean, subtle line-drawn approach with a nod to gatherings, shared meals, and tradition.
Table scenes are drawn with purpose and charming restraint. Playful without being whimsical, sophisticated without trying too hard.
Design Elements:
Gourds, bread, vegetables, utensils, rustic table settings
Featured Prints:
Place Setting on Panama
Structured Grids or Stripes
Think geometric repeats, symmetry, and grid-style patterns that offer clarity and blend repetition with rhythm.
These designs bring order to organic forms and lend a sense of heritage and timelessness.
Design Elements:
Geometric shapes & folkloric images, swirls, hand-drawn elements from nature
Featured Prints:
Linked Rings on Bali
Pavone Garden on Flax
Nassau – Storm on Rattan
RingRow on Lamour Matte Satin
Autumn Ribbon – Naturals on Lamour Matte Satin
Tossed & Scattered Layouts
These random layouts feel effortless, expressive, and grounded in the season’s natural flow
Let nature do what it does best, meander in
intentional disarray
Design Elements:
Leaves, mushrooms, berries, pumpkins, nuts, twigs
Featured Prints:
Autumn Tapestry on Velvet
Dancing Leaves on Cott’n-EZE Spun Polyester
Leaves Aplenty on Panama
Falling Leaves on Polyester
Vintage/Heritage Mood
Designs are softened, sun-faded, washed, or gently worn with imperfect lines and traditional tones that reflect a sense of quiet age.
Base cloths add subtle texture and warmth that echo the handmade, lived-in tone of the season.
Design Elements:
Weathered, well-used, unfinished rustic patterns
Featured Prints:
Venetian Plaster – Champagne on Lamour Matte Satin
Fresco – Rust on Cott’n-EZE Spun Polyester
Chambray Floral – Caramel on Velvet
Barocco – Raisin/Storm on Panama
Plaid & Checks
Bring a sense of traditional familiarity to the collection. They are reliable, recognizable, and tied to memory.
They have a little more defined confidence, but are still grounded in the warmth and rhythm of Fall.
The colors reflect the season. The structure adds balance. Together, they offer a quiet kind of boldness that’s rooted in the past yet made for the present.
Design Elements:
Traditional plaid and check design or with seasonal,
nature inspired mushroom, pumpkin, gourd or
cornucopia accents
Featured Prints:
Autumn Homestead – Evergreen/Goldenrod/White
on Oxford
Grandma’s Kitchen (Mushroom) – Shades of Green
on Panama
A Cohesive Print Story
Together, these themes, styles, and layouts form the narrative framework for Fall 2025. They’re more than trends. They’re tools for creating meaning.
Each print developed by A1 this season reflects not just a visual trend, but an emotional tone. Whether structured or scattered, vintage or modern, each one contributes to a broader story of seasonality, warmth, and thoughtful design.
Print isn’t just an accent. It’s a storyteller. And this season, it’s telling stories of quiet comfort, natural beauty, and the enduring richness of Fall.
