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The Best Fashion and Textile Books !
How do you learn more and get inspired in your creative journey ? You could spend hours looking through blogs and Youtube tutorials, but sometimes, the best thing is just to buy a…
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20 common situations where you need a Design Coach !
Have you ever felt super stuck on your dream creative project ? We, Creatives, always have tons and tons of ideas of things we want to make, techniques we want to try, and…
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4 Essential Ways to get Better at Design and Improve your Ideas
Are you a designer feeling like you can always do better, but you’re not sure how ? You enjoy every project you make ; but when you look at the results, at your…
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Why trusting your intuition as a designer is CRUCIAL
What if there was a magic thing that could make you feel super confident in all your creations, knowing that it’s incredible quality work, and that it is 100% worth putting out there…
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Knitting for Beginners : Create amazing Fabric Manipulations !
This article aims to present you the basic techniques of knitting, so that you can start making some samples for your textile manipulation researches ! Plenty of websites can teach you how to…
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5 Tips to create Modern Fabric Manipulations
Fabric Manipulations are an amazing way to add something unique to your fashion or textile designs. There are an infinite number of techniques that you can try ! Some techniques are old, some…
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What are the differences between woven, knitted and non woven fabrics ?
Fabrics are amazing. There are so many different ones that exist, and they can inspire you to create anything. But how do you choose which fabric to use, with so many possibilities ?…
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Fabric Manipulation Guide : Pleating
Pleats have been used in textiles and fashion for ever. But the style and techniques of pleats have changed a lot, opening a world of possibilities with each technological innovation ! Pleats are…
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What is the Fabric Hand ?
The Fabric Hand is the way the fabric feels when you touch it. It also refers to the way a fabric responds when handled.
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5 Design Mistakes that make your creations less original
There a plenty of ways to create as a designer. Everyone has its own way of doing things. But I’m pretty sure everyone will agree with me that these 5 mistakes are really…
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Canadian Smocks Pattern Tips for Clothes and Pillow Covers !
Now that you’ve discovered the Canadian Smocks Guide, I’m pretty sure you want to learn how to apply it to your new projects ! How do you use Canadian Smocks on Clothes and…
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How to Invent New Fabric Manipulations ?
Fabric manipulation is the art of creating volume and changing the shape of a textile. There are numerous ways to create fabric manipulations, because there are endless techniques ! But today we aren’t…
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Textile Glossary
Because fabrics and everything around it comes with a lot of technical words and complicated stuffs, let’s recap a few of the basic words in this Textile Glossary ! This is not an…
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The Brainstorming Technique : 6 Golden Rules to get A LOT of ideas
Have you ever heard of the brainstorming technique ? It’s an amazing way to produce dozens of ideas in a very short amount of time. In this post, I’m presenting all the reasons…
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Canadian Smocks : The Complete Guide
What are Canadian Smocks ? Canadian smocks are a type of fabric manipulation or hand stitching technique also sometimes called North American smocks. The craftsman make stitches on certain places of the fabric,…
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Textile Fibers
Today I’m introducing you to another wide subject inside the “Textile Knowledge” category : The Fibers used to make textiles. Fabrics are mostly made from threads, and threads are made from fibers. So…
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What is a creative process ?
A creative process is a series of steps a designer takes during designing his project, in order to go from an idea to the final product, refining his concepts through each steps to…
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The Different Types of Fabric
Hello Creative Souls ! Today I’m explaining the different types of fabrics. With so many existing textiles, it’s normal to get confused on how to choose fabrics for your creations. So let’s start…
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What are fabric manipulations ?
Definition Making textile manipulations (or fabric manipulations) is playing with the fabric to change its appearance, drape or shape. Usually, we want the fabric to become more dimensional, to go from flat to…
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4 MYTHS about Designers and Creativity
Ever dreamed of being a designer ? You want to create clothes, textiles or anything else but feel like “you’re not talented enough”, “you’re not creative enough” or you have any negative thinking…
