We had a lovely weekend in Sydney and needless to say took loads of Photos. This morning I have been playing on Colourlovers creating colour palettes from photos. This is the photo I took and …. Above is the palette developed using the photo as inspiration Around the Wharf …
Online Photo! Editor is a free photo manipulation, enhancement and editor. It is a very basic manipulation tool but often that is all you want or need. Often textile artists take photos to act as jump off point to a design. What they need is a way to trace basic …
Last night I spent far too long playing with a browser based free online drawing tool called Scribbler. Basically you start a drawing in the white area and then click “Start Scribbler” and let the program run until you think it’s created something of interest. Stop the program by clicking …
Fabric on Demand is a print on demand service for fabric designers. I have not used this service but it appears to be fairly straight forward. First of course you need to create a design. The file you submit to them has to be 150 dpi, 1200 x 1200 and 10 …
MyPhotoStitch is a free online service which will take one of your photos and chart it ready for cross stitch. I decided to test it using this photograph. To use the program choose one of your photos on your computer. Make sure your photograph is under 1 MG as this …
Many textile practitioners look at a photo and wonder how they might go about turning what they see in the photo into a design suitable for fiber. If you are in this situation this free online tool may help you. BeFunky is a free web based online service that allows …
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 …
