Although I am new at this, I still get a lot of people contacting me with questions about fabric design and how to get in to it. Its hard to answer all those messages well in detail, but here is a list of resources to check out. People get into it from many directions, and it is a competitive field. I went to The California School of Professional Fabric Design in Berkeley, but if you are not near any formal textile design programs, and whether you want to learn about it just to print things for yourself or actually work in fabric design, there are resources available. Here are some:
New Books:
A Field Guide to Fabric Design by Kimberly Kight
The Complete Guide to Designing and Printing Fabrics by Laurie Wisbrun
Other Books:
Textiles, A Handbook for Designers by Mary Paul Yates 1996
Textile Design by Carol Joyce 1993 (I love this book)
Surface Pattern Design by V. Ann Waterman 1984
Textile Print Design By Richard Fisher and Dorothy Wolfthal 1987
Design Your Owen Repeat Patterns by V. Ann Waterman 1986
Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design by Frederick Chipkin 2007
e-books:
How to Enter the World of Textiles for the Quilting Industry by Lizzy House
Online Courses:
Camp Pikaland, The Sellable Sketch
From Rachel Taylor, Do What You Love
Articles:
Portabellopixie, How do you design fabric
Creating Repeats
ebook: Repeat After Me by Claudia Brown and Jessie Whipple Vickery of Pattern People
ebook: How to Create Repeat Patterns in Photoshop by Tara Reed
Camp Pikiland: Online Course: The Ultimate Guide to Repeats
