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5 Animal Print Fabrics to DIY For | World Animal Day

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

GIVEAWAY! Win Halloween Print Fabrics/Leggings

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!

#printsinfashion | Flower Print Trend

prints in fashion floral print fabrics 1

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

5 Animal Print Fabrics to DIY For | World Animal Day

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!

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

Prints In Fashion, Flower Print Trend

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

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

Create a strong identity for your brand through Fabric Print and Design

We live in a hyper-visual world, where imagery dictates your rating. The increasing need to have a positive impact on sales especially high in a vast and competitive design world.

That is why print design is becoming an increasingly utilised tool in any designer’s tool kit, be it swimwear, stationery, fashion, brand or home wears designer. Print designs, surface design, patterns they called different but carry same purpose, is to capture people’s interests in instant, unifies the design collection and creates point of difference from other brands.

For example Tigerlily always been known for they boho and travel inspired prints and easily recognised in Australian fashion market.

Say, We Are Handsome and beautiful swimwear with stunning photographic print design are evoked.

But what if to take print and fabric a bit further? Doesn’t this collaboration open more door? There are so many ideas and product that can be created with using fabric as a base medium. Don’t think of a fabric as a cloth on a roll.

Would be a wedding invention a luxurious idea to make your invitees fill extra special and setting the tone of your weeding?

Fabric packing is very unique concept too, wrap your product, or even how about envelops or business cards?

To archive all the above ideas is a breeze now days. We live in the new era of digital printing technologies. Fast, cost efficient, ecofriendly they opens doors to the craziest creative projects!

That is why we are in love with digital fabric printing!

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How to prepare a layout legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

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 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 a layout/mark up legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Once you’ve completed the steps in the tutorial ‘How to use legging pattern in Photoshop’ You may want to print more than 1 design or more than 1 size, the most economic way to do this is to create a mark up/placement layout to have printed.

The following are instructions on how to set up in Photoshop, but could easily be done in Illustrator.

Start off by renaming the pattern layers to insure that you always have a pair of leggings.

If you are only wanting the same size with different designs you can just Duplicate the leg layers. If you’d like to bring in different sizes you will need to repeat the steps in ‘How to use legging pattern in Photoshop’

In this tutorial we will be using the same size 10 but printing in new designs.

On the same artboard move files to the left hand side. you will notice that you can only comfortable fit 1 pair within the 147cm width with the current orientation; however there is a lot of wastage as illustrator below.

Like a Jigsaw puzzle you will now need to start moving the patterns, you will need to make sure that you keep in mind that your grain line is parallel to the selvage. To do this, select the leg you’d like to rotate (select both layers) press Ctrl+t to open up the transform tool and while holding down shift rotate the image 360′ and make sure to move the pattern piece as close as possible to other leg (zoom in to make sure it is not overlapping)

You can now start bringing in the other size 10 designs and play around with the layout. It’s best that you make the art board slightly longer than needed and once you’ve set up all the designs crop the excess.

Make sure you zoom in and double check that you haven’t overlapped any areas, when you are happy with the layout save as a JPG, TIFF or PDF.

You’re now on your way to have custom printed fabric which you will be able to make into comfy leggings.

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Create a strong identity for your brand through Fabric Print and Design

We live in a hyper-visual world, where imagery dictates your rating. The increasing need to have a positive impact on sales especially high in a vast and competitive design world.

For example Tigerlily always been known for they boho and travel inspired prints and easily recognised in Australian fashion market.

Say, We Are Handsome and beautiful swimwear with stunning photographic print design are evoked.

Would be a wedding invention a luxurious idea to make your invitees fill extra special and setting the tone of your weeding?

Fabric packing is very unique concept too, wrap your product, or even how about envelops or business cards?

To archive all the above ideas is a breeze now days. We live in the new era of digital printing technologies. Fast, cost efficient, ecofriendly they opens doors to the craziest creative projects!

That is why we are in love with digital fabric printing!

Save

Design your own leggings – How to prepare legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

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.