The Fabric on Demand sample arrived and it's fantastic
On 3 July, I wrote a profile of an Internet start up called Fabric on Demand . Fabric on Demand prints small runs of user-designed fabrics affordably. After that post appeared, I started a lively e-mail correspondence with Rysa Pitner from Fabric on Demand. During the course of these exchanges, Rysa offered to run a sample yard of any design I wanted to submit to them via their website.
To keep this a group exercise, I put out a request for designs from my readers the following day. I knew that I wanted something brightly colored and on a white background because I wanted to see how this process worked clearly. The ever delightful and energetic Kelly James from Design Ties sent me some illustrations she had from a previous project that sounded like what I was looking for. In fact, they were perfect.
Kelly's layout consisted of 4 pool balls, and primarily based on her description I asked me to ship me what she had. So Kelly despatched me her medium-decision .Png documents. Here they're.
I submitted the files to Fabric on Demand thru their website. I asked Rysa to position them together into an 1/2 brick repeated pattern, even though it's some thing I may want to have finished myself. Fabric on Demand's website is extraordinarily clean to apply and that I didn't do a complete format is no mirrored image on their web page. Rather, it's a mirrored image on my being in a hurry. With that stated, Fabric on Demand has an artwork branch that's ready and inclined to help absolutely everyone with the technical facet of on demand fabric printing. There's not anything intimidating about this technique. Use the website and if you run right into a snag, they're status by using to assist.
Within a day, Rysa despatched me a hi-res proof and then an idea of how the sample would appearance spread out over a yard of finished fabric.
Proof
Sample yard
I was impressed at this point and when I forwarded the proofs to Kelly, she got so excited she ordered a couple of yards for herself. She's planning to do something fantastical I'm sure, so be sure to follow Kelly's blog over the next couple of weeks to see what she does with her Kelly James original fabric.
About every week after I OK'd the proof, my pattern arrived and right here it's far.
I am inspired mightily by using how well all of this came collectively and the fabric pattern Rysa despatched me is perfect. I had those pool balls drift due to the fact I desired to peer how crisp the edges could be when they have been revealed onto fabric. The entire print job is a long way cleaner than I was awaiting. Further, the colors are richly saturated with out making it feel like there's a ton of ink weighing some thing down or stiffening matters up. This cloth sample moves and handles as if it were an unadorned and unprinted woven pattern. There's no real bleed even though to the lower back both.
How they manage the level of color saturation they do while maintaining such sharp edges and minimal bleed through defies my ability to figure out how they do it. I'm stumped. All that matters though is that it looks fantastic. Fabric on Demand is really onto something here and if you've ever thought about taking a stab at fabric design I can't encourage you to do so strongly enough. Contact Fabric on Demand today!