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Textile designer Brook Perdigon’s new botanical-themed fabric line, Impressions, was inspired by her Tampa Bay roots.
Lasting Impressions BY SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN
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s the pandemic dragged on, Brook Perdigon longed for her native Tampa. Her mother, sister and other relatives were still there. She reminisced about happy summer days at her grandparents’ house in Belleair Beach. Perdigon, a textile designer who lives in Los Angeles, turned her nostalgia into a new fabric collection called Impressions. Inspired by her years in Florida, some patterns evoke flowers in her mother’s garden, others the ’70s decor of the beloved beach house. “I was super homesick during COVID,” Perdigon said, “so I did this.” Perdigon, pictured at right in her studio in Los Angeles, grew up in South Tampa. Photos courtesy of Brook Perdigon Textiles
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Perdigon grew up in South Tampa, went to college in St. Louis and then moved to California. She taught kindergarten, took classes in weaving
