One of the cool things about the Fabric Design Forum is that I have one more avenue to find artist/designers work that is new to me. Chicagoan Denise Holmes recently joined — her blog and shop are called nisee made. She is an illustrator, primarily for stationery and children’s goods, but she said she’s recently [...]
Canadian artist/designer Vivian Ducas, aka C’est La Viv, has met with some wonderful successes in the past year — one of her designs was included dailycandy.com’s trends for 2012 and featured on the Today Show! She has added several beautiful collections and individual prints to Spoonflower since I last checked in — Zig Zag combines [...]
Boosterseat is Anda Corrie of Berlin, Germany. She sells her Spoonflower digitally printed fabrics (and coasters and sewing patterns) on Etsy. I’ve posted about her before but since then she’s added tons of new designs to her shop. I was tickled by Hopscotch — you usually think big, bright, more-is-more with digital printing, but it’s [...]
Gabriela Larios is a London-based designer/illustrator based in London, UK. She has designed a charming collection called Cuentos (Stories) from my Childhood, available on Spoonflower. The collection was inspired by her native El Salvador, and the main print was inspired by a book called Cuentos de Cipotes by Salvadoran artists Maya and her father Salarrué. She [...]
Rashida Coleman-Hale has an upcoming collection with Timeless Treasures partly inspired by Japanese washi tape. For whatever reason, this design didn’t make the cut, but she’s offering it on sale at Spoonflower. I love the idea of designers of conventionally produced collections expanding their collections with digitally printed fabrics. The price is higher of course, [...]
Monda Loves is Vanessa Waller, a U.K.-based freelance surface pattern designer and illustrator. She sells some really wonderful fabrics through Spoonflower, including her latest, Flo (above), and a 70s-retro-euro collection called My Vintage Kitchen.
{ Unidentified Animals } Jordan Elise Perme is a freelance toy and textile designer based in Cleveland, OH. She has creates what she calls Horrible Adorables, which are these amazing, elaborate, faux-taxidermied wool felt creatures. She also designs textile patterns, available though Spoonflower — some in the Horrible Adorables theme and some not, some made [...]
Did I not just wonder aloud about the possibilities of major manufacturers incorporating digitally printed fabrics into their regular offerings? Liberty of London recently unveiled their extensive and awesome Liberty Rocks collection for Autumn/Winter 2011. It has groups of prints Inspired by Musicians, Inspired by Artists, Classic Liberty Prints, Music Decades in Design, Rock & [...]
I like it when people think big, and beyond simple pattern repeats, for digital printing. Vanessa Sorensen has created three folky tablecloth designs, spanning 2-3 yards of fabric, which also include matching tea towel designs. Cool idea and very cute designs! See her warning about shrinkage in this post though. Vanessa’s tablecloths and other fabric [...]
{ Birds } Frumafar is actually two people: Mariko, who studied Textile & Surface design at FIT in NYC, worked in the fashion industry for four years, then moved back to Japan; and Yuko, who worked at a textile design studio NYC for 4 years and is now back in Japan working in the textile industry [...]
Rae Hoekstra of Made by Rae designed this cute mode whale print and has it up for sale at Spoonflower. In this post she shows what the different repeats (basic, half-drop, half-brick, and mirror) look like, and hey, they all work! Here she uses the fabric as trim for her new Charlie Tunic sewing pattern [...]
I’ve been wondering if/when this would happen — a major manufacturer offering digitally printed fabrics. German apparel fabrics company Hilco is the first I have known of. This print, Ink Rings, is on a viscose jersey knit and is sold through the Netherlands-based Jersey Fashion (who ships worldwide, for those of you looking for women’s [...]
Just two of the many new Spoonflower-printed fabrics from Alice Apple. I just love her! ( images from Alice Apple’s blog )
Houston, Texas-based designer Patty Sloniger is Michael Miller‘s newest fabric designer! Her collection Backyard Babies won the hotly contested Project Selvage contest. I was won over by her charming coordinates. I’m looking forward to seeing it and the girl version when it’s introduced at Fall Quilt Market later this year.
Katherine Codega, who goes under the name kccrochet on Etsy, is a Boston, MA-based illustrator who offers letterpress prints and bookmarks with her illustrations of classic authors (Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and several others). She also has this lovely Spoonflower-produced fabric for sale, called Clover Patch. Wish I’d found it a few [...]
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