Design and Composition of Textile Patterns

You will meet Inés, who will talk to you about the work of La casita de Wendy, her career and her most outstanding works. It will also show you its main influences between crafts, folk, art, illustration and design.

You will review what is a rapport and a print all over . Later you will see different types of prints according to the aesthetics used with different types of patterns; then, according to the composition between sauteed, linear elements, in kaleidoscope, etc. and you will discover how scale and color influence your designs.

You will get to work and draw two types of graphic elements to compose your prints: abstract and figurative; and you will learn to plan a collection by creating small schemes.

From the drawings made, you will create compositions by cutting elements following your planning. Then you will digitize them with a scanner to create several digital compositions on the computer.

Next, Ines will tell you how to make rapports more complex for prints all over.

You will realize photomontages with the designs previously created to visualize them in garments and products, and you will learn how to make a technical sheet to deliver the prints to the factory.

Finally, Ines will share some thoughts on the different fabrics and how you can bring variety through composition to your textile designs.