Who else is excited for the upcoming Kenzo & H&M collection? Kenzo have mastered the art of mixing prints with colors and making it look chic with an international twist. If the Kenzo & H&M collection inspired you as much here are 4 animal print fabrics available at Digital Fabrics Shop that you will love and that you can use in your next fashion design.
Blue Snake Print Fabric
Zebra Stripes Fabric
Polish Animal Fabric
Leopard Print Fabric
Last week’s Halloween Print Fabric giveaway made us clear that you guys love cats! The cat print was the most chosen print which is why we wanted to delight you with more fun prints for people who love cats. And what’s not to love? Both in real life and on print, cats are beautiful to look at and bring a fun factor.
Below you’ll find cat prints inspiration but don’t stop here. Create a design inspired by your favorite animal and print it on fabric, pillows or leggings. The possibilities are endless and Digital Fabrics helps you bring your creative ideas to life!
1. Black & White Cat Prints
Source: Pattern Blog
2. Sanderson Cats
Source: Vicke Lindstrand
3. Black Cat Pattern
Source: Mia Mandarina
4. FREE Black Cat Halloween Print
5. For My Cat Ladies
Download it here
WIN! Halloween is around the corner and we want to celebrate with this week’s giveaway! Digital Fabrics prints all sorts of designs on fabric so we wanted to celebrate with Halloween print fabrics and 2 lucky winners will get 1m! OR we will print the Halloween print on matt lycra with leggings shape so the winner only needs to cut and create it.
You probably have several ideas in mind but maybe you don’t know where to start as you never designed a print. Digital Fabrics helps you bring your creative ideas to life and this week we used Picmonkey to make it happen.
The Halloween print designs were created by Jocelina Paixão Fortes, the creative behind the sewing & travel channel Pink Chocolate Break and webshop Paixão Fortes. She created these fun & spooky prints with Picmonkey.
“Picmonkey is a great tool to create unique designs with as they have custom layers and visuals for every festive occasion from Halloween to Valentine’s Day. I used the edit option and choose the Halloween prints available and pasted it on a white canvas.”
Now join us on Facebook & Instagram and win 2m of Halloween Print fabrics! The winner will be announced on Wednesday!
If you don’t win, don’t worry as these Halloween print fabric designs will be available in the DF fabric shop for purchase.
Good luck!
Today it’s World Animal Day so we’re celebrating it with these colorful, animal print fabrics! Whether you love zebra print textiles or the classic leopard style, we have you covered!
Every year and season, animal prints seem to be omnipresent onto the runway and in the fashion scene. And let’s be honest, animal prints are always a good idea and 10 years from now you will still be wearing them.
We listed our favorite animal print fabrics below available in our Digital Fabrics shop. Let us know what you would DIY with it because our mission is to help you bring your creative ideas to life!
Leopard Print Fabric
Blue Snake Print Fabric
Wild Zebra Print Fabric
Zebra Stripes Fabric
Photo credit: Vogue
You an never go wrong with floral prints and according to Michael Kors’ Spring 17 Ready-to-Wear collection, this print is definitely in fashion!
Bold Rose Midnight Purple Fabric
Tea Rose Fabric
Tulip Time Fabric
Use it to to create a beautiful dress like Eryn from Style Sew Me, a pleated bodice circle skirt dress like Oaishe or a chic Spring jacket like Jocy from Pink Chocolate Break. The possibilities are endless and Digital Fabrics likes to bring your creative ideas to life!
Get inspired with these floral print fabrics and shop the floral print trend in the Digital Fabrics shop. All our products are 100% Printed and made in Australia.
Bold Rose Midnight Purple Fabric
Open Bloom Fabric
Summer Floral Fabric
Spring Flower Print Fabric
Tea Rose Fabric
Orchids Fabric
Garment making and production can be daunting and a complicated process especially placement or engineered printing. A lot of time and effort goes into research and understanding where to start. We have put together tutorials on how to design, work with and prepare legging pattern for digital placement fabric printing. For this tutorial you need to be proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator or at least have basic knowlage. Our tutorial is based on industry standards. This technic can be applied to printing other products such as bikinis, t-shirts, singlets , dresses etc.
How to prepare legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop
Open the PDF file in Illustrator. You can purchase our digital leggings pattern on our website or use your own.
Copy and paste the size you would like to use within the same file, we have selected size 10.
Delete all details and notches within the pattern piece and select the pattern shape and fill in black.
while legging is selected copy and take note on the sizing.
Open Photoshop and select a new artboard, keep the pixels and resolution the same, just make sure you’ve selected RGB color mode. Click OK and Paste pattern piece as a smart object, click enter to place.
Double check that the sizing is correct by selecting Image>image size, in this case it is only a few points off which will be fine.
Next you’ll need to increase your artboard size to fit the other leg, change the width of your artboard to the width of the fabric you’d like to use and select the anchor points to extend from corner.
Copy Layer and while selected transform (Ctrl+t), while still selected right click on top of the layer and select Flip Horizontally, you know have a pair.
With both layers selected you will need to select transform again (ctrl+t) and while select cover over to rotate, when rotating make sure you hold down shift to make sure it rotates correctly.
Copy and paste the design you would like on your leggings and place layer on top of the one of the pattern legs.
Right click on the design layer and in the drop down menu select create clipping mask.
Repeat for other leg
Group all layers and centre.
Your file is now ready to print!
Soon you’ll have your printed fabric which you’ll be able to whip up into these comfy leggings
Pinterest is such an inspiring platform and allows us to get so many great ideas for home decor, recipes, DIY and travel. One of the interior design trends that we’re loving is the bohemian design trend. It feels personal, cozy and vintage with worldly influences. With these easy 3 home decor trends you can add a bohemian feel to any small room instantly!
Photo credits: Jungalow
Bohemian Design Tip 1: Colorful Pillows
Pillows are a great way to add more color to a room and make it extra cozy. Vary the colors and prints to add more dimension. And if you really want to add a personal touch, make your own cushion or pillow. Print your design, photograph or artwork and create a stylish statement to lighten up any room or make a perfect gift.
Photo credit: Apartment Therapy
Bohemian Design Tip 2: Textiles
Give new life to an old couch by layering textiles on them. See our selection of fabrics (also suitable for home decor) in our fabric shop. Contrast it with an eye-catching carpet.
Photo credit: Jungalow
Bohemian Design Tip 2: Add plants
Not only are plants great to purify the air, they’re excellent to add more life to your room. And in a bohemian interior, plants are a must.
Get more bohemian decor inspiration below!
Photo credit: Design Sponge
Photo credit: Pinterest
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Get more Pinspired on our Digital Fabrics pillows board
Elba from Live Colorful created another colorful & creative DIY tutorial: a DIY Bean Bag. For this she used the Cheery fabric she designed and which is available in our fabric shop. Did you know that printing fabrics with us is super easy? Create your design, Upload and pay, Receive your fabric!
From DIY clothes to DIY Home Decor, our mission at Digital Fabrics is to help you to bring your creativity and your amazing ideas to life!
Elba got the inspiration for her DIY project from Pinterest, but added some fun curves to make it look more organic.
A maxi dress is a wardrobe staple that every woman needs. It’s feminine, easy to wear and DIY.
Ovoke shows us how you can DIY a maxi dress with Digital Fabrics. Our mission at Digital Fabrics is to help you to bring your creativity our amazing ideas to life! Shop this and more fabrics in our Fabric Shop
For this tutorial we have choose Full Drop pattern repeat. It is not an advanced technic, mostly for those who is not very proficient in Photoshop yet like to be creative and play. This fabric pattern repeat tutorial mainly suitable for photographic and abstract images.
Full Drop repeat in Photoshop
Full Drop Repeats can also be referred to as Square repeat.
Open your artwork file in Photoshop. It’s always a good idea to check the resolution quality before beginning, a minimum of 150 dpi is recommended. Crop/alter the image as desired till you are happy with an artwork that will be tiled to repeat seamlessly.
Original image – all four corners of image are relatively different and this is what will need to be fixed to create a seamless repeat.
Original image with no fixing of the seams, looks mismatched.
Take note of the pixel size of your image (Image – Image Size)
As well as HALF this amount. An easy way to do this is let the computer decide, halve the resolution amount (150 dpi in this case), and re-note the new pixel dimensions. Click cancel as you don’t want to actually change the resolution, just take note of it.
Now cut (OFFSET) the image in half both length and width ways. This will give the edges or seams that need to be fixed for seamless repeating. It is ideal to do this step with a flattened layer. (Filter – Other – Offset) Now put in the HALVED horizontal and vertical values determined in step 2 and make sure that Wrap Around is selected. Click OK.
It is clear to see where the image needs to be fixed to create a seamless repeat, where no harsh contrasting lines can be seen as in the above image. There are several tools to use in photoshop that you can use to do this including (but not limited to) stamp, blur, patch, clone…enjoy the play!
It is a good idea to offset the now fixed image, just to check the four points that you haven’t missed anything and nothing is looking odd.
This now forms your Repeat Tile and this is the tile/image that is required when sending artwork to a printer or uploading it for fabric printing online.
SAVE! Save file as (Artwork Name)_Repeat Tile
You must now check your repeat and to see it duplicated across the width and down the length of your fabric. An easy way to do so is to define your reworked artwork as a pattern. Menu>Edit>Define Pattern>Save as preferred name.
Open a new blank document with a set up reflecting something similar to a roll of fabric i.e. 145 x 100 cm depending on you repeat tile dimensions.
Menu>Edit>Fill>Select your saved pattern from the drop down box>OK
(shown below is only 50 x 50 cm)
Now you can use your repeat pattern or repeat tile for digital custom fabric printing.
