Visualise Your Designs: Adding Textile Prints to Patterns in Adobe Illustrator!

👗 Embark on a creative journey with our Adobe Illustrator tutorial, designed for sewists, pattern makers, fashion designers, and DIY enthusiasts eager to see their designs come to life before the first stitch is sewn. This guide demystifies the process of adding vibrant textile prints to basic blocks, providing you with a realistic preview of your finished garments.
📚 What You'll Learn:
- Integrating Fashion Prints: Discover how to import and pair full-scale digital sewing patterns with textile prints in Adobe Illustrator, a crucial step for visualising the final look.
- Scaling to Perfection: Master the art of adjusting print dimensions to ensure the pattern and print match flawlessly, enhancing the overall design.
Preparation for Digital Printing: Learn to modify original artwork to fit your pattern, preparing it for high-quality digital textile printing.
- Engineered Prints: Dive into advanced techniques for creating prints that fit exact pattern pieces, crucial for precision in digital textile printing.
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Additional Information:
This tutorial is perfect for anyone interested in taking their pattern making to the next level, offering a bridge between digital design and physical creation. By integrating these techniques, you'll ensure your designs are not just beautiful but also technically ready for production.
Problems Solved:
- Visualising Final Garments: Provides a solution for previewing how patterns will look with actual textile prints, eliminating guesswork.
- Print and Pattern Mismatch: Teaches how to adjust and scale prints to match patterns perfectly, ensuring design integrity.
- Pre-Production Preparation: Offers insights into preparing designs for digital printing, streamlining the transition from digital to fabric.
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[@rwansuliman]

Thank you so so much!! your explanation was clear and made engineered print less intimidating haha.

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[@Heasterworld]

Good Job sir

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[@glittercreations7541]

Hi, thanks for the video! I'm printing a coat's back panels with a centre back seam, do I stretch the print to make them match in the centre?

[@PatternLabLondon]

You can do that, absolutely as long as you are happy with the result and the print is not too warped. Otherwise, if you can place individual elements of the print, then fill in the spaces.

[@bhargavi6429]

What if there is a dart near bust and you want to place the print and make sure the print lines matches at dart point as well?

[@PatternLabLondon]

You would have to engineer the print to work across that dart. You could do this by slicing the print artwork using the one edge of the dart, then rotate it around the tip of the dart until it matches the opposite dart edge. You could apply this technique to each dart on the block. Hopefully this helps?

[@MattyHize]

Lets say I wanted to sew on a pocket with a pocket flap on that dress, how would I go about making sure the placement of the patterns and the artwork match seamlessly ? If thats makes any sense. THANKS

[@PatternLabLondon]

Great question. It depends if you are using a placement print or a repeat print. Part one of the tutorial focuses more on scale and less on placement, but if you were sending your print to a digital printers and you defined the print using your sewing pattern, I would suggest first placing your print in the pattern, then add/ position your pocket. You could then, using the small selection tool (white arrow), Select the pocket outline (whilst holing own SHIFT + OPT (Alt) then select the print underneath. Once both the pocket and the print have been selected copy and paste them to different part of the page. This should give you a separate pocket panel and matching print placement. Finally, contain the print in a clipping mask. The pocket should now match the body. Hope that makes sense.

[@nekomi5256]

How to actually print on the fabric?

[@PatternLabLondon]

You'd need to send the full-scale print artwork to a digital print company. You could send them the full scale pattern + print as a PDF and ask them to print it directly on to the fabric. You'd have to make sure the size of your pattern + print does not exceed the width of the fabric they supply. The best option is to have a conversation with the company and find out your limitations. I hope this helps!

[@JD-dm3uf]

how would you do this on a circle skirt pattern 💛

[@PatternLabLondon]

You' use the same technique, you'd just need to duplicate or repeat the pattern more times to fill up the space. If it is a placement pattern, simply tile or expand the print to fit the skirt.