Textile Designer,
Surface Pattern Design.
Textile Designer,
Surface Pattern Design.
Process
Textile Techniques
The first known screen prints date back to China around AD-221 and have developed to be a common textile process of today. Other textile techniques have recently evolved in the digital era to involve, digital printing, digital embroidery, and digital weaving but the core function of these techniques remains... to create great designs that enhance our environment.
Screen Print
Screenprint is a technique to reproduce detailed designs quickly and efficiently on to fabrics. From artwork to refining the design to print, different techniques can be used to create extra depth by either overlapping colours or marbling them at the point of print.
Sustainable Colouration
The natural dye process begins with isolating the pigment from its natural source ie. plant, or mineral and distilling it to a concentrated dye liquor. This is a traditional technique that is still very relevant and can be used in todays fabrics. Natural Dyes are also non-toxic, and significantly less harmful to our environment.
Digital
Surface Design
I developed a technique for digital design that involved photography in nature, isolating an element, digitising that element into a vector shape, separating a colour palette for a 2 or 3 colour print, and developing a repeat pattern.
Digital Embroidery
Once a a design has been finalised the digitising process begins and includes isolating colours to be represented by stitch types, patterns and densities.
