Philip Jacob has been designing fabric since he left art college in 1976. Initially, he designed dress and bedding fabric moving into furnishing fabric and wallpaper, in the early 1980s. He now has two fabric labels supplying mostly to the patchwork quilt and craft markets. He works with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably for the Kaffe Fassett Collective and also has his own line “Snow Leopard Designs”