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 [...]
Spoonflower has profiles of each of the 10 finalists in Michael Miller‘s Project Selvage (full disclosure: MM/Project Selvage is a sponsor of the site). I loved hearing about everyone’s thought processes, experience, and inspirations. These 10 are now hard at work on rounding out their collections (of six prints total), which will be up on [...]
{ Folklore Fish interlock knit for Ikasyr } I found Finnish designer Hanna Ruusulampi through Spoonflower, which led me not only to her amazing online portfolio (see English version of the fabric portfolio here) but also to a treasure trove of Finnish fabric shops. Hanna designed the interlock knit design Folklore Fish for the shop/mini-manufacturer [...]
{ Moth } Mod Max is Betz White‘s second organic, digitally printed fabric collection. Each print is a single element from nature blown up to a large scale, “Sort of like a graphic interpretation of macro-photography,” she writes. Betz’ fabrics are printed in the U.S. on an off-white, hemp-cotton blend canvas basecloth, and uses nontoxic [...]
Holly Ward Bimba is the artist behind Golly Bard. She takes her amazing watercolor paintings (the originals of which she offers on Etsy) and turns them into patterns for fabric. Her first collection, the Woodland Collection, is available for sale on Spoonflower. These are just too gorgeous for words, right? She’s giving away a fat [...]
Pixelated Paisley by tinornament Keen observers may have noticed that I have a thing for pixelly designs, whether they pre-date the computer age and are meant to evoke cross-stitch or knitting patterns, or are meant to evoke screen graphics. Or maybe both. Digital textile printing and pixels are a natural pair … here are some [...]
{ The Mossrock } I could look at Jill Bliss‘ work all day, so I was very excited to learn that she is now offering the fabrics she uses for her notebook covers and wallets as yardage. Fabrics are digitally printed onto quilting-weight cotton. I love that the names all start with “the,” hinting that [...]
Liesl Gibson had a genius idea for her debut book Oliver + S Little Things to Sew. Sewing books are written, the projects in it sewn up and photographed, around a year before the book’s release. If the projects are sewn up in traditionally manufactured fabrics, those fabrics are typically out-of-print by the time the [...]
Beautiful digitally printed designs by Lila Ruby King, who is an Australian currently living in Greece. In her Etsy shop you’ll also find art, paper goods, printables, jewelry, and bags adorned with her drawings. (Above: Weather Pattern) { Folk Birds } { Moth } { Woodgrain Sparrows } { Bugs } { Sticks } { [...]
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