Rachel Beckman » Weaver & Textile Designer

Collage + Pattern

Let me start off by saying that in the long term, I have very little interest in textile design and the textile design industry. So when I signed up for Digital Pattern and Print on Textile this semester, I knew I was going to be out of my element but I also knew that I was going to have a lot of fun.

Our first assignment was to create collages using different textures and qualities of surfaces that we would like to see printed on the digital fabric printer. We are currently in the process of becoming comfortable with Photoshop in the creation of single and half-drop repeat patterns. It’s freaking sweet. Here are my collages; we’re printing them next week.