Could you please give a reference on this newsletter?
I am not a commercial quilter and I have not noticed any writing on the selvage except 'not for children's sleepwear', but I am curious about this.
If the designer's design is bought by a fabric manufacturer, then there must be some limits in that contract which prohibit commercial use of the design by the manufacturer? Or do designers hire textile factories to print their designs? Would that designer have other similar designs which are sold to other manufacturers for general use? Or is this all about intellectual property rights? Why would a designer be sued?
I must be missing the point here, but it doesn't bode well for crafters. From my perspective, tens of thousands of quilts made commercially by factories for resale by WalMart et al are not the same as the cottage industry which is arts and crafts quilts.