Woven Color Color has always been an integral part of fashion and design. Historically colors were applied to textiles with...
Having not received a formal degree in textile and pattern design I have read numerous books to try to develop...
When I was a teenager I cottoned onto Art Deco patterns and loved them for their symmetry and opulent glamour....
As I mentioned in Part 1, there are some common themes that run through all of the Russian folk styles...
In this post Julie Gibbons explores the history of the ever popular damask pattern. You might be forgiven these days...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. Katagami is the traditional Japanese art of paper stencils, and...
As the summer sun blazes down on those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, designing Christmas and holiday patterns doesn’t...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. I discovered Athos Bulcão (1918-2008) quite by chance, when I was...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. Part 1 in the Russian Folk series here, Part 2 here. ...
I don’t always know exactly what I’m looking for when I start investigating a particular pattern style. To be honest,...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. Shibori has been getting a bit of press lately; it...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. William Morris (1834-1896) is best known these days as a...
