Fabrics include linens, silks and cottons in solids, stripes and patterns, and there are numerous French papers in many textures and colors.
Bill Maxwell, a farmer in Changewater, N.J., specializes in squashes and pumpkins to match any décor: pale ivory, gold, orange, red, celadon and hunter green, all smooth, ridged or bumpy, and in solids, stripes and speckles.
Socks were black with gold trim, either as stripes or as a solid bar at the turndown.
In the northern part of their range, they have a single solid white stripe starting at the top of the head that covers the tail and back.
Other marking varieties include Dalmatian-like spotting, blazes, masks, and Siamese (typically a gradient of colour along the body, darkest at the base of the tail and nose as in Siamese cats), and "downunders" (an Australian variety which has a solid colour stripe on the belly or a colour marking that corresponds to markings on top).
Eastern tent caterpillars also have fuzzy black and blue bodies, but they bear a solid white stripe down the centers of their backs.
It also offers outdoor fabric in dozens of solid colors, stripes and patterns (starting at $21.99 a yard).
His site offers three styles of underwear, four T-shirts and two sock styles (solid or stripes), and is already generating sales in the low six figures each month.
Bemz sells covers for most of Ikea's upholstered pieces -- even those that are no longer in production -- in a wider range of fabrics than Ikea offers: solid colors, stripes, patterns, bright colors and neutrals are available in both cotton and linen-and-cotton blends.
5. Solid & Striped one-piece, $158, bikini.com.
