It may be time to switch up what’s covering your pillows, sofas, and walls.

The design of textiles now demands speed, accuracy and embedded data. The patterns we create are no longer single use, and in a digitized world, their final product form, material application, and ...

TEXTILES IN THE RENAISSANCE: Highlighting the origins of textile design and patterns from the Renaissance, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will present “Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the ...

Medieval textiles are scarce due to time, heavy reuse, and recycling, as items were repurposed until they disintegrated. Wall hangings, for instance, were cut for upholstery or other domestic uses.

To understand the history of surface pattern in textile design is to understand that each pattern will have a cultural and regional dimension as well as that of a general historical perspective. This ...

To demonstrate the sheer creativity and vision of over 150 designers across the globe, Kristi O’Meara and Audrey Victoria Keiffer—founders of Chicago’s The Patternbase design studio and online archive ...

Student-designed textiles greet visitors first Immediately to your right upon entering is one of the student textile displays. This display was created by students in the class DES 160 Textile Surface ...

There is no doubt that Adobe Illustrator is one of the best programs for vector design that you can find today. Among its wide range of tools, there is one that we would like to highlight today: the ...

Brinda Dudhat, the founder of Morii Design in India, creates modern motifs supported by age-old techniques. By Sarah Archer This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for ...