Pattern and Textile 

Textile design is a fast-moving creative industry with a lot of opportunities. GUCCI’s new homewares collection features bespoke velvet cushions; Australian apparel company Gorman just celebrated ten years of collaborating with textile designers for runway looks; printed, designer bedding was a big hit at this year’s Milan Design Week with Milan-based print queen J.J. Martin launching her signature range, and Welsh artist Sean Edwards exhibited colorful quilts at this year’s Venice Biennale in his show “Undo Things Done.”

Even art book publishers Phaidon are celebrating textile designing and creating: they are launching their new book Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art this Spring, offering a global survey of over 100 visual artists working in the medium.

From colorful rugs, throws, towels, and curtains, artisanal furniture upholstery and bespoke wall hangings, patterned wallpaper, gift wrapping, and paper products, and custom textiles for clothing and apparel brands—the world of textile design is massive.


A big part of textile is creating patterns to be printed on fabric. ​A pattern is a design in which lines, shapes, forms or colours are repeated. The part that is repeated is called a motif. Patterns can be regular or irregular.

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Part one : create a set of three Patterns

Create a series of three patterns that illustrate a cause or brand
using the skills from the Pattern worksheet ( provided bellow) create 3 different patterns.  There should be one main textile and two supporting textiles. 

worksheet

​In illustrator 

• https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-edit-patterns.html
• https://www.graphic-design-employment.com/illustrator-how-to-make-a-pattern.html

In photoshop 

• https://www.lifewire.com/use-a-pattern-fill-in-photoshop-1700226
• https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Photoshop-Pattern
• https://blog.thenounproject.com/how-to-make-a-pattern-in-photoshop/

Tutorial

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Product design: apply your textile to a custom product

Many companies have used textile and graphic placement on parole and product to advertise.  Vans  in recent years have made several "ARTIST" shoes to promote arts education and the arts.  We will be creating our own version of this.  

Create an original product using your amazing, collaging  photoshop skills. 

​Complete the demo tote bag first to master the skill of applying textiles to a product and then apply the skills to your custom product 

practice bag

Shoe design ttorial