New Japanese fabrics

We recently got a new shipment of beautiful Japanese imports, including these wonderful, soft knits.

Are these shapes meant to be be clouds, snow, or popcorn?  (My vote's on popcorn.)  The possibility of these being birds also came up, which would make sense, since this fabric is called "peaceful cooing."

 Whatever they are, the fabric is beautiful, and the print is also available in a double gauze:

There is also a new group of prints in the Japanese group, mostly small-scale, scattered motifs on solid, neutral backgrounds, though the owls and bears are larger-scale.

There are more new fabrics in this group than there’s room here to show, so come in and see them for yourself.