Textile design

By

k. Chandran ,TS[P],IIHT Kannur

What is textile design?

Textile design is the process of creating designs and structures for weaving, knitting, printing, fabric painting or ornamentation of fabrics.In practice it is the production of designs for saris, dress materials, furnishings, carpets and such textile products.All beautiful textile products are created first on paper and then production carried out with help of different raw materials ,different actions leading finally to finished product.Today the professional textile designers use some form of computer aided design software especially created for the purpose for saving time and to get more accuracy.

Elements of designs

Lines

Forms and shapes

Colour

Texture

lines

Horizontal linesVertical linesCurved linesDiagonal linesThin lines and thick linesDouble lines and parallel linesBroken linesOblique linesContour lines

Foliage drawing

Flowers and plants can be found in all shapes, sizes, and coloursTo get various shapes and forms naturally the practice of foliage drawings will be of help in designing.Drawing to get desired shapes and forms from nature by observing flowers, plants and animals etc: is termed as foliage drawing

Forms and shapes

Natural forms

Geometrical forms

Abstract forms

Conventional forms

calligraphy

Pigment theory of colour

Primary colors

RYB

RGB

CMYK

COLOUR

Is a visual sensation created out of a physical stimuli consisting an observer to an object under the source of light.

For a textile design the primary source of attraction and pleasing of customer is through its colour.

Secondary colours

Green

Violet

Orange

It is formed by mixing two primary colours in required strength in required hue.

Tertiary colours

Beige or cytron

Olive

Brown

It is the result of mixing three primary colours in different ratios keeping one primary colour in prodominent.

Light theory of colour

Vibgyor

CMYK

RGB

Substractive colour mixing.

Colour wheel [chromatic circle]

Yellow yellow orange orange red orange red red violet violet blue violet blue blue green green yellow green.

Properties of colour

HueValueSaturationComplementary coloursSplit complementaryTriadic colour schemesAnalogous colour schemesMonochromatic colour schemesPolychromatic colour schemesAchromatic colour schemes

Attributes of color

Tint-tone-shadeLightness-darknessHarmony in coloursContrast coloursSimultaneous contrastWarm and cool coloursJuxta posed coloursAfter image of colours

Digital colours

RGB

CMYK

DRAWING TEXTILE DESIGNS

Sketch

Working drawing

Motif

Unit figure

Design repeat

Side repeat

Unit repeating design

Colour patterning designs

Plain design

Spot design

Stripe design

Cross over pattern

Check design

Design bases

Half drop repeatDiagonal waved line baseDrop reverse designBalanced designOgee baseDiamond baseTurnaround designAll over effect designPatch work

Traditional sarees of india

Baluchari sarisJamdani sareesBrocade of surat and varanasiTanchoi sarisJangla sarisPhulkari of panjabKasuti of karnatakaEmbroidery of kashmirPochampalli saris of andhrapradeshBandhni or tie and dye sareesChanderi sareesPatola sareesIkat sarisKancheepuram sarees

Traditional saris of india

Kurupur sari

Maheswari saris

Gadwal saris

Gharchola saris

Paithani saris

Kota-doria sari

Lay out of home furnishing

BedspreadBed sheetTable coverPillow coverWindow curtainsDoor curtainsKitchen linensCarpets

Album preparations

Prepare design album for ready-mades and made-ups.

Prepare album for traditional sarees by collection of photos ,figures, designs ,reports and samples.

Design projects and portfolios

Saree

Dothy

Dress materials

Shirtings

Madeups.

The design process

Trend research

AOIL

Designing

Patterning

Product rendering

finishing