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Flowers: The Most Popular Inspiration in Fabric Pattern Designs

8/17/2015

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I enjoy gardening and flowers in bloom bring me a lot of joy. I take photos of flowers and have flower imagery around my apartment. So, it is no surprise that the assignment to come up with flower patterns in my Textile Design class turned out to be my favorite assignment.

First, the students were tasked with creating a moodboard. It is a very important tool in fashion and textile design. The board holds inspiration imagery and tells a color story. Below, you can see the one I created for my assignment. All of the flowers are from photos I took. The color scheme is colorful and light and playfull. Next, it was time to sketch and come up with textile patterns ...
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Flower imagery is the most popular in the textile design industry. Many of us have garments with flower patterns. They are also extremely prevalent in home design. I bet you own a pillow or a blanket with patterns inspired by flowers.

I like to use different techniques to generate ideas and design. Below you can see six ideas I came up with. I created cardboard stamps, I drew with color markers, I created stencils for my silk screen. Finally, I used Illustrator and PhotoShop to manipulate the ideas into more complex patterns. 
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The possibilities are indeed enless. One can keep finding new beautiful flowers around the world and one can keep coming up with new textile patterns. It is a thrilling and creative journey!
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