My feelings about marketing change on a daily basis… There are times when I love being out there, telling people...
I am thrilled to introduce you to work from Paola Pagano. When I was reviewing Paola’s work I was immediately...
Prepare your eyes for some major eye-candy! One of our favorite home decor fabric companies, Workroom C, recently released their...
Between work and family and our big move across the country last year, I haven’t had time for a lot...
There’s a trend emerging in the textile design industry, and as much as I’d tried to, I just don’t like...
We are thrilled to introduce our next guest expert in the Textile Design Lab, the talented Cheryl Phelps! We can’t wait to...
Designing beautiful, marketable patterns is difficult enough, but throw in merchandising, marketing, and production? That’s a handful. And that’s the...
Our Textile Design Lab members recently had the pleasure of enjoying an informative and inspiring presentation by home decor pattern...
There is a rising trend for agents and studios, and that is the trend of requiring all pattern designs to...
You’ve spent a lot of time working on your pattern repeat. Your eyes may be feeling buggy, and your thoughts...
Images via: (clockwise from top left) “Stacks” by studio tdes, “Pebble Stack” by Ian Griffiths, “Ceramic bowls” by ~My aim is true~, “coin stacks” by frankieleon, “stacked” by Magnus Hagdorn, “stacks” by Michael Cory, “Wine Corks_2813” by Barta...
Photoshop is wonderful resource that allows us to do many of our favorite parts of designing in it. We can:...

















