Pattern-making in the Digital Age: A workshop for textile design

Classroom

What You’ll Learn

Do you want to print your own textiles for crafting? Do you want to create color-ways quickly? Do you want to render your patterns onto a collection? Do you want to translate your illustrations to pattern?

Let me show you how you can translate your work into a digital form. Having digital patterns makes it easier to:

create a variety of color ways
quickly test repeat size & variety
photoshop it onto products
print your own fabrics from print services

In this course I will walk you through my own work, showing you how to:

convert hand-drawn elements to vectors
create a repeat in Illustrator
create a pattern in Illustrator
quickly manipulate size of repeat
quickly swap out colors for multiple color-ways
prepare files for print
render a pattern into a photo in Photoshop

After this course, you will leave with the ability to create patterns in Illustrator, and the beginning of how to render them onto products.

Please Bring:

If you would like to work through the exercise, please bring a laptop with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Any work you would like help with

Beginner Level

About Your Teacher See Full Bio

Sarah Adams · Designer

Sarah Adams studied product design with a minor in fibers at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has worked freelance and full time as a fashion and soft goods designer for baby products. She has traveled overseas to see the printing and manufacturing process of her products, and understands the methods used in creating commercial textiles. Currently she is a graduate student studying Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts.

You can see some of her work here or here.