17 Jun Adventures in textiles
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We’ve been plotting for a long time to print textiles, and at last things are beginning to happen. We’ve found some friendly printers – or rather, they found us – and the last couple of weeks in the studio have been busy with pattern and colour trials.
![Ali-in-studio](https://www.cambridgeimprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Ali-in-studio.jpg)
The walls of the studio are completely covered with slips of paper:
![fabric-patterns](https://www.cambridgeimprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/fabric-patterns.jpg)
![4-swatches](https://www.cambridgeimprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4-swatches.jpg)
Our plan was to print four patterns, each in a single colour way, to start off with. We’re having trouble narrowing it down:
![save-fabric-swatches-corner](https://www.cambridgeimprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/save-fabric-swatches-corner.jpg)
Here is the Persephone design, printed in the studio by hand on antique French linen. By the autumn we hope to have something similar but produced on a more commercially viable basis!
![fabrics](https://www.cambridgeimprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/fabrics.jpg)