Printing
How to Prepare Artwork for Fabric Printing
A pre-flight checklist for textile print files: repeat checks, resolution, colour, file format, naming and strike-offs.
Resources
Textile Design Guides & Tutorials
Practical, studio-tested guides on repeats, Photoshop workflows, colour and preparing artwork for fabric printing.
Start here
Photoshop
How to Create Textile Repeats in Photoshop
A practical Photoshop workflow for straight, half drop and brick repeats using the Offset filter, Define Pattern and Pattern Preview.
Latest guides
Printing
How to Prepare a Pattern for Different Fabric Widths
Adapting one design to 112 cm, 140 cm, 150 cm and wide-width fabrics without awkward partial repeats or rescaled motifs.
Colour
How to Recolor a Textile Pattern
Methods for building colourways — from quick browser recolouring to Photoshop adjustment layers and indexed colour separations.
Printing
How to Prepare Artwork for Fabric Printing
A pre-flight checklist for textile print files: repeat checks, resolution, colour, file format, naming and strike-offs.
Printing
How to Calculate Fabric Repeat Size
Work out repeat sizes in centimetres, inches and pixels — and how many repeats fit across your fabric — with worked examples.
Colour
RGB vs CMYK for Textile Printing
Should textile artwork be RGB or CMYK? How digital fabric printers handle colour, why brights shift, and how to get predictable results.
Printing
Textile Printing DPI Guide
What DPI really means for fabric printing, how much resolution you need for different products, and how to fix low-resolution artwork.
Photoshop
How to Create Textile Repeats in Photoshop
A practical Photoshop workflow for straight, half drop and brick repeats using the Offset filter, Define Pattern and Pattern Preview.
Repeats
What Is a Brick Repeat?
The brick repeat explained: how rows shift, when it beats a half drop, and how to prepare the tile for printing.
Repeats
What Is a Half Drop Repeat?
How the half drop repeat works, why it looks more natural than a straight repeat, and how to build and send one…
Repeats
How to Create a Seamless Pattern
A clear, step-by-step method for turning motifs into a seamless textile repeat — and the checks that stop seams reaching the printer.
Newsletter
New repeats & tools, once a month
New tools, pattern releases and practical fabric-printing tips. One short email a month. No spam.