INSPIRED BY THE PAST, DESIGNED FOR TODAY.

Lilyanne Design is an artist-led surface pattern studio creating original patterns, textiles, and thoughtfully made goods for the home.

I'm Anne Thumann, the artist and designer behind Lilyanne Design. My work is rooted in a lifelong love of drawing, history, old houses, textiles, gardens, and the beautiful evidence of things made and kept over time.

My collections often begin with something that catches my attention—a fragment of an antique textile, an old botanical illustration, the shape of a flower, a piece of decorative art, or a pattern glimpsed in a historic interior. I don't set out to reproduce the past. Instead, I pull apart the elements that interest me and redraw, rearrange, and reinterpret them into something that feels distinctly Lilyanne: historical in spirit, but made for the way we live now.

ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF THE STORY

Long before Lilyanne Design, I was drawing.

I began working as a commissioned portrait artist in 2002, primarily in graphite, charcoal, and colored pencil. That foundation still shapes the way I approach surface design today. I love line, detail, repetition, and the subtle irregularities that make artwork feel human.

My patterns begin with original artwork and develop slowly through sketching, drawing, experimenting with color, and arranging motifs into repeat. Some become intricate botanicals; others lean toward folk art, historic wallpapers, pastoral scenes, or small, quiet coordinates.

Whatever the collection, I want the hand of the artist to remain visible.

DESIGNED WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOME

My perspective on home comes from somewhere a little unexpected.

Alongside my work as an artist and designer, I have spent more than 16 years working as a physical therapist, including in home health and hospice. That work has allowed me into people's homes during ordinary days and some of the most significant moments of their lives.

It has changed the way I think about interiors.

A home isn't simply something we decorate. It holds routines, relationships, celebrations, difficult seasons, collections, hand-me-downs, and memories. The things we choose to live with become part of that story.

That understanding is at the heart of Lilyanne Design. I want to create patterns and objects that don't simply make a room look beautiful, but help it feel personal, collected, comfortable, and lived in.

A SLOWER WAY OF MAKING

I believe good design deserves time.

Collections are developed thoughtfully rather than rushed to follow a trend. Motifs are drawn and redrawn, palettes adjusted, repeats refined, and patterns considered not only individually but in relationship to one another.

That same philosophy carries into the handmade side of Lilyanne Design. Rugs, textiles, paper goods, and other small-batch pieces allow me to take the artwork off the screen and make something tangible—something with texture, evidence of the hand, and a life beyond the studio.

Some things are meant to be made slowly.

PATTERNS MADE TO LIVE WITH

Today, Lilyanne Design collections can be found across fabric, wallpaper, home décor, digital pattern collections, and a changing selection of handmade goods.

Whether you're choosing a wallpaper for a room, fabric for a project, a digital pattern for something you're creating, or an object I've made by hand, my hope is the same:

that you find something that feels as though it belongs in your story.

Because the best homes aren't created all at once. They're gathered slowly—one meaningful piece at a time.

Warmly,
Anne Thumann
Founder & Artist, Lilyanne Design