Fair Isle Patterns - Shopping With Shayna Kulik The print designer Shayna Kulik inspects porcelain pieces by Rosenthal and Hutschenreuther at the End of History in the West Village. FOR most people, name Fair Isle evokes memories of an era long gone - and the preppy sweaters that went with it. But Shayna Kulik, a print and pattern designer and the founder of Pattern Pulp, an online forum for tracking pattern design in music, technology, fashion and interiors, sees Fair Isle staging a comeback. The look, which has its roots in fashion, is now influencing home goods as well, said Ms. Kulik, 31. Think of it as the sweater translated: the Nordic style - repeating row patterns - is very influential in interior design today. For a classic example, she stopped by the End of History, a West Village store specializing in vintage ceramics and glass, where she pointed out the large collection of 1960s porcelain by Rosenthal and Hutschenreuther. The "small row patterns that look almost like gold threaded lace, but using small geometric shapes," she noted, are typical of traditional Fair Isle patterns. At Anthropologie, Ms. Kulik found a more modern example of the design on a set of measuring cups. "Fair Isle is a precise knit that has to be perfect, but the material is usually malleable," she said. But here it's the opposite: the execution is soft and hand-drawn, but the material is really hard. There's a fluidity here that you don't see in knits that I really like. Several pieces by the London designer Donna Wilson also caught her eye. At Design Within Reach, she liked the "winter-wear feel" of the Ernest pouf and the way the designer "took a typical small knit pattern, enlarged it and modernized it through the use of eco-friendly materials." And at the Future Perfect, she admired the Fairisle rug, which offered what she described as a "pixelated version of the trend: Atari meets Chevron meets Fair Isle." She also liked the "untraditional color palette" of the Hofdi pillow, which she said "almost looks like a cartoon or illustrated version of the traditional pattern." Her favorite Fair Isle design, though, was on the Dogon chair by Ferruccio Laviani, at Property. "It's a commercial interpretation of the row pattern, but with the craftiness removed," she said. The winter theme has been stripped out. Still, one wonders about longevity: having gone the way of shag rugs once before, is Fair Isle really back for good? Ms. Kulik, at least, seemed convinced. The Fair Isle pattern is "like camouflage or leopard print," she said. It has staying power.