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 [...]
Good news for digital fabric designers — Spoonflower has released its official 3600-color standards map with RGB color codes. It’s much more extensive than their previous color guide, and it works in conjunction with an Adobe Swatch Exchange Library, which you can download from here. To make a long story short, working from a chart [...]
{ 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 [...]
{ Designs by Lucienne Day. L-R: Graphica, Riga, Spectators, Trio. } The Centre for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art offers a commercial digital textile printing service, and, under the name Classic Textiles, reproduces designs from some of the U.K.’s most prominent and influential textile designers. Lucienne Day herself selected the 12 designs [...]
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 [...]
Monday will be a big day for Heather Ross and fans! She’ll be appearing live on the Martha Stewart Show on the Hallmark channel for a baby shower episode (that’s right, if you hadn’t heard, she’s expecting a baby this summer!). Heather will be demonstrating how to make baby bloomers, a pattern featured in her [...]
I’ve always wanted to see a fabric design reality show, of course I realize it wouldn’t be a chartburner … but then again, the market seems to support a half dozen reality shows about cake, so who am I to say? Anyway, Michael Miller Fabrics has teamed up with Spoonflower to give us the next [...]
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 } { [...]
While hanging out at the Maharam site for yesterday’s Tord Boontje post, I came across Maharam’s Digital Products — a series of large-scale digitally printed textiles intended for walls. One of them, Dutch Clouds, is by graphic designer and typographer Karel Martens. Thousands of multicolor icons form a photograph of clouds from afar. So mind-blowing [...]
Gant Powell is a NYC-based illustrator and essayist who says in his Spoonflower profile that he’s “experimenting with surface design.” Well please keep experimenting … I would love to see more sophisticated, hand-drawn designs like this out there. See Gant’s portfolio here.
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