“What is the color of the year? And what does it mean...
In our membership community, the Textile Design Lab, we will spend six...
Australian designer Sandi Maxwell has been a member of the Textile Design Lab for several years and we are so excited to invite her as our October guest expert to...
As pattern designers, we are all passionate about our work and creating...
Since Adobe moved to its subscription based model, it’s no small feat...
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links and I may receive a small commission for each purchase made. Thanks for your support. A few weeks ago, a...
Are you curious about how to turn your illustrations and sketches into...
Interested in designing your own fabric? There are many companies that specialize...
Flowers are a staple in the textile and surface pattern design industry. They never go out of style. The scale, illustration style, or color palette might change, but the flower...
In this video I share my process for turning a watercolor floral...
Have you ever had the opportunity to design patterns for the gift...
The life cycle of a pattern design has many stages: trend research, motif creation, layout development, tweaking, adjusting, coloring, finalizing—and, finally, establishing the repeat. This last step, the repeat process,...
