One of the things I have most enjoyed about being self-employed has been the opportunity to design fabrics. I trained as a surface pattern designer between 1995 and 2000, by means of a degree studied part-time. Although I then taught Textiles in school, this mostly involved encouraging the students’ creativity, rather than exercising my own.Continue reading “Swans fabric design”
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Developing design ideas for textile art
Recently I was asked if I go to exhibitions and to shows (like the ‘Festival of Quilts’, mentioned in my last post) to get ideas. I was quite taken aback by the question. I replied at the time that I thought the answer was ‘no’ because I was fizzing with ideas, but it made meContinue reading “Developing design ideas for textile art”