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Fabric Designs

Texas flair

This project began as a study of textile design and the challenges of creating artwork for large-format fabric printing. It also provided a great excuse to experiment with some of Illustrator's newer features and see how they could support a pattern-driven workflow.

The finished Texas pattern printed on cloth, a diagonal lattice of longhorns, missions, guitars, and horseshoes in red, orange, and brown.

The longhorn pattern shown on finished goods: a pillow, table runner, bedding, and napkins.

Macro detail of the printed cloth, a guitar and armadillo motif filling the frame, the weave visible through the ink.

Macro detail of a cowboy boot motif stamped EST. TX 1845, raking light catching the texture of the fabric.

The pattern across a loose length of cloth, its diagonal lattice of longhorns, missions, horseshoes, and boots repeating edge to edge.