textile design Archives - Natalie in Stitches

Knitwear Design 101 | Fabrication, part 1

Knit and crochet designers have several duties when it comes to fabrication. As well as considering the overall shape and silhouette of a garment, there comes the question of: This post focuses on fibre type and touches on yarn construction;

Knitwear Design 101: Drop repeats and surface pattern design

The drop repeat is the most widely used method of tessellation symmetry in knitting and crochet. It can occur along a vertical axis – when most textile books will refer to it as a ‘drop’ repeat – or a horizontal axis, when it can also be referred to as a brick repeat.