Textile design

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Point paper for Dove and Rose woven double cloth by William Morris, 1879.
Point paper for Dove and Rose woven double cloth by William Morris, 1879.

Textile design is the process of creating designs for knitted, woven or printed fabrics.

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[edit] Overview

Successful textile designers marry a creative vision of what a finished textile will look like with a deep understanding of the technical aspects of production and the properties of fiber, yarn, and dyes.[1]

Designs for both woven and printed textiles often begin with a drawing or watercolor sketch of the finished design. Traditionally, drawings of woven textile patterns were translated onto special forms of graph paper called point papers which were used by the weavers in setting up their looms.[2]

Today, most professional textile designers use some form of computer-aided design software created expressly for this purpose.[1]

[edit] See also

  • Fiber art

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Gale, Lahori, and Kaur, The Textile Book, p. 37
  2. ^ Rothstein, Woven Textile Design in Britain to 1750

[edit] References

  • Gale, Colin, Lajwanti Lahori, and Jasbir Kaur, The Textile Book, Berg Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1859735126
  • Jenkins, David, ed.: The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0521341078
  • Kadolph, Sara J., ed.: Textiles, 10th edition, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2007, ISBN 0131187694
  • Rothstein, Natalie: The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Woven Textile Design in Britain to 1750, Canopy Books, New York, London, and Paris, 1994. ISBN 1558598499
  • Rothstein, Natalie: The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Woven Textile Design in Britain 1750 to 1850, Canopy Books, New York, London, and Paris, 1994. ISBN 1558598502


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