Linda Belden is a painter and designer whose rugs have been featured in leading design magazines including Interior Design, Modern Rugs and Textiles, California Home and Design, In Style, and Country Living. She introduced her first collection at the 2003 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, and continually develops new designs.
Belden translated her life-long interest in textiles into a business, when she met a Zapotec weaving family on a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. Shortly after, she made the acquaintance of another weaving family in Kathmandu, Nepal, and began making Tibetan knotted rugs, as well.
The things she sees every day—the side of a barn, a French t-shirt, tribal textiles, European tiles, modern art, sushi—inspire Linda Belden’s designs. Her distinctive, instinctive color sense energizes these fresh and modern rugs. The rugs, available in special sizes and colors, are made to order to exacting, centuries old weaving standards. As part of the green movement, Belden is currently working on a collection of rugs made only from natural sheep colors—no dyes at all.
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Linda Belden worked for years in the gift industry, designing products for her own company, Linda Belden Studio, and others, including Marcel Schurman, Santa Barbara Ceramics and Colorbok. With her note card and stationery business, she was engaged in her other life-long interest--things made out of paper.
Linda Belden was raised on the San Francisco peninsula before moving, at 13, with her family, to New Canaan, Connecticut. After earning a degree in English Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, she returned to the Bay Area where she studied painting and design at San Francisco State, the Art Institute, and College of Marin. She lives in San Francisco and Calistoga, California with her husband, painter and designer, Donald Ohlen. |
