
Our Story

THE COLORFUL STORY OF
SPRINGS CREATIVE
2023

Sustainable Future
We’ve built a unique framework of both creative and logistical operations to support the rising demand for digital printing and changing consumer landscape. Today, SPRINGS Creative sits at the forefront of the decorative home textiles market and the future of the digital textile printing industry .
2013

Digital Textile Printing
Springs Creative invested in the company’s first domestic digital textile printing resources. The result was dramatically increased speed to market with unparalleled color and detail print quality advancements.
2007

Springs Creative Products Group, LLC
Recognizing the Creative Products Group’s potential for growth and proven ability to operate independent of the corporate structure, Derick Close purchased the division in March 2007.
2001

Creative Products Group
Under the leadership of Derick Close, whose family founded Springs, the Retail and Specialty Fabrics Division was renamed the Creative Products Group.
1970

Retail and Specialty Fabric Division Founded
Springs Industries established the Retail and Specialty Fabrics Division to oversee the production of high-quality apparel and finished fabrics.
1887

Springs Cotton Mills
Springs Cotton Mills was founded by Leroy Springs and Samuel Elliott White in Lancaster, South Carolina.
ABOUT US
SPRINGS Creative is an internationally affluent, deluxe soft-furnishings company, known for designer quality printed fabrics.
OUR MISSION
In partnership with The Baxter Mill Archive, our collective mission is to serve Creative Professionals who endeavor to create beautiful designs and product collections, end-to-end.
WE BELIEVE
Each color in the Springs Creative logo is symbolic of one of the Unique Value Propositions which, as a whole, make up the cornerstones and positioning of the Springs Creative brand.
Art & Culture + Archives
Creative Design + Innovation
Responsiveness + Accessibility
Local-to-Global Talent + Community
Boutique-Quality Service


OUR HISTORY: Springs Cotton Mills
The son of Colonel Leroy Springs, a textile manufacturer, Colonel Elliott White Springs took over Springs Cotton Mills in 1931 when America was in the depths of the Great Depression, and 10 years later had made it one of the textile industry’s major success stories.
Elliot White Springs
South Carolina businessman and an American flying ace. A daring aviator, he was the fifth-ranking U.S. Pilot of World War I. After his father’s death during the Depression, Springs was forced to take command of the Springs family cotton mills. He was the mastermind behind the Risqué Springmaid sheet ads. He forever changed the American advertising with his famous series of ads that he wrote and designed himself.

In the history of advertising, Elliott White Springs’ provocative advertising campaigns were known for challenging the conventions of the time. His strategy to combine humor with sexually and socially charged imagery had not been seen before in mainstream advertising.
The Springs’ ad campaigns established the iconic beauty “Miss Springmaid.” She was “country fresh” and would remain constant, regardless of whether the advertisement appeared in company bulletins, business and trade publications or national magazines such as Forbes, or Life. The logo depicted a milkmaid in the foreground of a landscape filled with a windmill, trees and a waterfall.
With his past literary career and creative mind, Springs was able to be bold and innovative. He had expanded the business until it was the third largest textile producer in the country. Springs achieved the brand recognition he had been searching for as Springmaid became a household name.

Samuel Elliot White
Samuel Elliot White founded the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company in 1887 in South Carolina. Over the years, the company has evolved, including the combination of five South Carolina cotton mills into one company the Springs Cotton Mill, run by his son Elliot White Springs in 1933. By 1959, Springs Cotton Mill was the largest manufacturer of sheets and pillowcases in the world, producing more than 20,000 sheets per week under iconic brands such as Springmaid and Wamsutta.
