Point paper for Dove and Rose woven double cloth by William Morris, 1879. Double cloth or double weave (also doublecloth, double-cloth) is a type of woven Textile in which two or more sets of warps William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896 was an English Architect, Furniture and Textile designer artist writer and socialist associated

Textile design is the process of creating designs for knitted, woven or printed fabrics. "Knit" redirects here See also KNIT and Knitted fabric. This article describes textile weaving For other senses of this word see Weaving (disambiguation. Textile printing is the process of applying Colour to fabric in definite Patterns or designs A textile is a flexible material comprised of a network of natural or artificial Fibres often referred to as thread or Yarn.

Overview

Successful textile designers marry a creative vision of what a finished textile will look like with a deep understanding of the technical aspects of production and the properties of fiber, yarn, and dyes. Textile manufacturing is one of the oldest human industries The oldest known Textiles date back to about 5000 B Fiber or fibre is a class of Materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces similar to lengths of thread. This article is about the fiber product For the type of joke see Shaggy dog story. A dye can generally be described as a Colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied ^[1]

Designs for both woven and printed textiles often begin with a drawing or watercolor sketch of the finished design. Traditionally, drawings of woven textile patterns were translated onto special forms of graph paper called point papers which were used by the weavers in setting up their looms. Format and availability of graph paper Graph paper is available either as Loose leaf paper or bound in Notebooks It is becoming A loom is a Machine or device for Weaving thread or Yarn into Textiles Looms can range from very small hand-held frames to large free-standing ^[2]

Today, most professional textile designers use some form of computer-aided design software created expressly for this purpose. ^[1]

See also

• Fiber art

Notes

References

• Gale, Colin, Lajwanti Lahori, and Jasbir Kaur, The Textile Book, Berg Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1859735126
• Jenkins, David, ed. : The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0521341078
• Kadolph, Sara J. , ed. : Textiles, 10th edition, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2007, ISBN 0131187694
• Rothstein, Natalie: The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Woven Textile Design in Britain to 1750, Canopy Books, New York, London, and Paris, 1994. ISBN 1558598499
• Rothstein, Natalie: The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Woven Textile Design in Britain 1750 to 1850, Canopy Books, New York, London, and Paris, 1994. ISBN 1558598502