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October 19, 2011 by Tien Chiu

Adobe Illustrator tutorial for flat pattern drafting

Just a quick note to say that I wrote a tutorial for using Illustrator for flat pattern drafting.  I decided to put it in a newly created “Techniques and How-Tos” section (and yes, it’s pretty ironic that the first entry in the “Techniques and How-Tos” under weaving is really about sewing!).  I hope to fill out this section over the next couple weeks with some of the technical things I’ve previously written about.

A couple people so far have mentioned that they like the blue-purple better because it balances out the blue-purple in the dark panel.  I’m going to meditate on this some more and then see what Sharon thinks.  I think it would be a good idea for me to weave up some fabric in blue-purple and some in red-purple, to see what it actually looks like.  Julia was right in that the glossy sample fabric is a bit distracting.  The actual fabric will be the same as the body fabric – maple leaves and all – but solid colored rather than changing color through its length.

 

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