Fabric Surface Design Techniques

Designing with vectors is great because you can make an image larger or smaller without it becoming pixelated or blurry.

Fabric surface design techniques. Many fabric designers work in a vector based program. Of traditional stylized digitized and illusionary techniques to embellish a product. It is also the art of enhancing a textile surface structure by applying three dimensional techniques such as weaving knitting embroidery lace beading and embossing. You can add multiple layers of fabric underneath for a beautiful effect.

I define surface design as any technique that manipulates or changes the surface of a fabric. This technique involves adding a layer of fabric underneath the base fabric and cutting away a portion of the base fabric in the shape of the design so that the fabric underneath is revealed. There are so many fabric dyeing techniques that produce gorgeous and diverse results. The decorative application of threads to the surface of a textile by means of a needle.

Adding beads collaging weaving etc. A piece of wrapping paper created by joe rogers for wrap magazine surface pattern design has enjoyed a bit of a revival in recent years with a new wave of illustrators and designers fuelling the growing trend for decorated objects illustrated goods and aspirational home wares. All of these techniques are demonstrated using rit dye which is an all purpose dye but you can also use other types of dye like fiber reactive dyes to get the same results. Techniques that use a needle and thread.

Learn how to design fabric. Pieces of fabric usually in different colors and patterns assembled to create a larger panel. You can purchase this in a cloud format for a monthly subscription fee. Ceramics glass metal wood in fact all the major and minor decorative arts used embellishment as a legitimate tool in which to decoratively enhance their results.

The technique of stitching cut shapes of fabric onto a background fabric. Painting dyeing printing stamping stenciling applying resists stitching embellishing e g. The most popular vector program available is adobe illustrator. Embellishment techniques are not only applied on the surface of fabrics and textiles it is also applying any kind of decorative items.

It was such great fun to get to play all day long for 2 straight days with a myriad of fabric surface design techniques stencils screen printing stamping mono printing found objects and texturizing with paint paint sticks rollers sponges texture plates.