18th c. fabric progress report

[jenthompson]

So I picked a fabric pattern (dibs!) and enlarged it to the size I want and traced off what was there. You can see the repeat in the original textile going one direction, but I had to fill in the gaps with my own designs going the other direction. The drafting stage took two days of work and lots and lots of checking to make sure the edges would tile seamlessly. Now I'm going over the outlines with colored pencil (I'll also be mixing in brown and pink and green over the indigo to match to original better), then the outlines will be scanned and turned into a vector graphic in illustrator so it will be nice and clean in the final version. After the outlines are done, I'm going to put a piece of acetate over this drawing and fill in the colors with gouache... which will also be scanned and worked up on separate digital layers. We used a similar method when I worked in a screen printing shop back in college (pre-computer!), so it seemed like a good idea here too. The cool thing is that I'll be able to tweak the colors of the flowers and leaves and outlines separately, and I could make many different color versions once I'm done. If this fabric turns out decent, I have dreams of selling it on etsy and people could even custom pick their colors so it wouldn't look the same every time.

Anyhoo... just thought I'd do a mini fabric diary for those of you who are interested in the custom fabric stuff.

Comments

[paillettes.livejournal.com]

i just have to say, this is one of the coolest uses of spoonflower ever :)

[sewphisticate.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow. You are talented enough to be Very Dangerous.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

That sounds really, really cool.

/Eva

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Hurray! You're finally experimenting with Spoonflower! I can't wait to see what you come up with.

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

Drool. Just drool. I'm seriously in awe !

[undycat.livejournal.com]

That sounds really cool. I'm interested to see how it turns out!

[bauhausfrau.livejournal.com]

Very, very cool! I'm looking forward to more fabric diary entries.

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Cool! That's a really pretty design. :-)

[corsetrasewing.livejournal.com]

You go girl!
I am looking forward to what this looks like when it is all done.

[fiofiorina.livejournal.com]

So you're going to print it?

Edit: I should read properly: You let printing! That's cool!