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Get Up High to Look Down Low

This week we’re going up sky high to get a bird’s eye view of some great ideas to feed into the repeating pattern melting pot of textile design. And having seen a few on the runway shots from New York…

Floral for Spring

The Spring 2014 RTW Fashion shows have commenced with New York first to start showing the talented designers latest collections. One trend so far that has been featured in almost all the collections is Floral’s, in the words of Miranda…

Optical Illusions

Carrying on from our last blog post, we are still looking at the impact of texture in prints. Today we are inspired by the Swedish label ACNE Studios. When you think ACNE Studios, you think classic shapes, beautiful fabrics and…

Get A Little Touchy Feely

If the digital printing form on textiles where it’s possible to render fine detail and subtleties in colour, adding texture to your design can enhance your print, lifting it beyond the end product into a realm of its own. There…

Read Between The Lines

Big and bold combinations (L-R) Etro, Dolce & Gabbana, Paul & Joe Its always around in some capacity, from season to season there’ll be a stripe or two, a polka dot and even a check. But recently it seems the…

3.1 Phillip Lim for Target

  The Fashion world is a buzz by the release of yet another Target collaboration, the latest designer lending their creative talent is 3.1 Phillip Lim The collection highlights the classic silhouettes 3.1 Phillip Lim is famous for, with some…

Faux Nature

At Digital Fabrics we love Flowers and anything Flora or Flora inspired. This weeks Flora inspiration comes from Isabelle Menin a Belgian photographer. Isabelle Menin began her artist career focusing on painting, after several exhibitions, she decided to quit painting…

Novelty Prints

Novelty prints seem to always be in fashion, they appear in various forms from being a bold placement image or an all over print. We have a few Novelty prints in our Design Library for purchase, if you are looking…

Pull Up A Seat

Here is an innovative brand and design house making one long front row for customers and designers to sit side by side. Based in Berlin, Germany and conjured by local Florian Ellsaesser, Front Row Society is all about “design with…

Mercedes-Benz Miami Swim Fashion Week 2014

The Mercedes-Benz Miami swim fashion week 2014, have come and gone for this year. Be inspired by our favourite printed swimsuits for summer 2014. Launching your own Swimwear label? or do you simply want to make your own swimmers with…

Current prints

  Flipping through pages of the internet and exploring current fashion supplies we came across many beautiful fashion prints in forms of dresses, tops, swimwear etc, that’s on the market right now. Printed digitally or not, they are simply beautiful…

Fabric printing-Little bit of history

Block printing on cloth for the clothing market has been in circulation since the time of the Ancient Egyptians. India and China both too have rich histories in printing cloth to be worn as garments. In Peru, prior to the…

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