Wow! custom fabrics on demand
I came across a mention of a company called Spoonflower on Apartment Therapy last week and I haven't been able to get it out of my head since. Spoonflower is an Internet company that prints custom fabrics. It's an amazing thing, really and their process is really wild.
Say you're looking for a fabric but no matter where you look you can't find the right one. Imagine too that you're willing to take a stab at designing your own fabric. So instead of hunting for the next couple of months for the right pattern, just make one. Take what you can already see in your mind's eye, recreate it in a drawing program as described on Spoonflower's website, upload it and then two weeks later, a fabric you designed arrives in the UPS. Sounds pretty simple, right? I suppose it is a simple process but the idea behind it is revolutionary.
For now, Spoonflower is printing on 100% cotton broadcloth with out a minimal order and no set up price. They are selling their material (definitely your material) for $18 a yard and $5 a swatch. Amazing!
A kid's clothing clothier writes a weblog called Mama Made and she has some sincerely clear instructions on the way to first-class use Spoonflower as well as a few quite cool insights into her creative manner. Her Spoonflower instructions are broken into 5 separate postings:
- Thinking approximately and developing your designs
Rachel's weblog is complete of interesting ideas and examples of Mama Made's apparel and fabrics. It's worth a glance if for no different purpose than to see what's available. It's also a quite compelling examine.
Spoonflower's onto some thing massive. The fabrics they print are meant broadly speaking for use in garb creation and craft initiatives. Though it's only a count number of time before the choices and intended makes use of of the base fabrics increases. Some day inside the now not too remote destiny, you may be capable of reupholster an armchair in a fabric of your personal layout. Something that started as a vision to your thoughts then made actual within the shape of a chunk of furniture. That's the sort of component that gets me away from bed inside the morning, I swear.
Oh, the images scattered all over this submit are actual samples of some of the designs in Spoonflower's public gallery. These are just folks importing their designs and I'm flabbergasted via the whole lot. Bravo Spoonflower!
