Category: Art and Design

The Grammar of Ornament online


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Art and Design / Books9 Comments

After yesterday’s post  about articles in the V&A journal  I went poking around the net a little further and discovered The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture houses an online copy of Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament This book is beautifully illustrated and influences textile design to this …

Yarn Bombing as Street Art


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Art and Design / Fiber and Textile Arts2 Comments

  I just had t share this knitted bus! Magda Sayeg and a group of guerilla knitters are responsible and it was featured in Telegraph(UK) newspaper  Guerilla knitters around the world are taking knitting out of the domestic sphere and into public places as they have started to decorate trees, street signs …

Fun on ColourLovers


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Art and Design1 comment

Has anyone ever taken a good look around Colourlovers? I know I have used it all year for the TIF challenge but I have not explored it nearly enough.  I have become totally side tracked with Colourlovers pattern making tool. Why and how did this come about? This year we are making …

Spoonflower


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Art and Design / Fiber and Textile ArtsLeave a comment

This is a heads up for anyone who has wanted to design fabric. I was a bit slow to realise this (blog moving and all) but Spoonflower is a service that enables you to design and then have your fabric printed onto quilting weight cotton fabric. This is a print on …

The Dover Weekly Sampler


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Art and Design6 Comments

 Many textile folks do not see themselves as being able to draw and since it is illegal to copy they find themselves working commercial designs.  This method of working is fine but they never really have the opportunity to try their hand at design. There is nothing quite like developing …

Pattern Cooler


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Art and Design / Resources3 Comments

I think I may go a little silly with this toy/tool Pattern Cooler is an online pattern editor which creates seamless patterns. Apart from it being a good design inspiration source you can browse from thousands of pre-coloured patterns and recolour them and the results can be used on blogs, …

FontStruct


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Art and Design2 Comments

FontStruct is a Flash-based interface which allows you to build and construct fonts. It is one of those web based design tools that is intuitive and fun to use. FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, which can be used on any Mac or Windows application which means you can use it …