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 …
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 …
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 …
Sue Bleiweiss in her editors role, points out that with Issue 5 Fibre and Stitch is now a year old. Congratulations are due because unlike many electronically delivered ezines the magazine has not run out of steam and each issue still maintains the high standard it initially commenced with. The …
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, …
Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product is an extremely interesting exhibit for anyone who is interested in samples and the origin of the sample book. The exhibit and associated site from the collections of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Smithsonian Institution Libraries examines sampling formats but in many ways the …
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 …
