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title: Textile Design
description: Textile design involves creating patterns, structures, and surface ornaments for woven, knitted, or printed fabrics. You will understand color theory, repeat patterns, fiber properties, and manufacturing processes used in fashion and interior design.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: textiles-and-sewing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/textile-design
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# Textile Design

Textile design involves creating patterns, structures, and surface ornaments for woven, knitted, or printed fabrics. You will understand color theory, repeat patterns, fiber properties, and manufacturing processes used in fashion and interior design.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 5 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Pattern Observer

Blog and business resource for surface pattern designers, run by textile designer Michelle Fifis. Covers portfolio building, licensing versus selling designs, pitching to manufacturers and trend research, alongside its paid Textile Design Lab membership.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://patternobserver.com/

**Tags:** textile-design, surface-pattern, design-business, licensing, portfolio

### 2. The Textile School

Reference site documenting textile manufacturing end to end: fibre properties, spinning, weaving and knitting structures, dyeing and finishing, testing standards and calculators. Useful for understanding how a fabric's construction determines how it behaves.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.textileschool.com/

**Tags:** textiles, fabric, weaving, dyeing, manufacturing

### 3. TextileArtist.org

Interviews, technique articles and video tutorials with contemporary textile and stitch artists, covering embroidery, felting, dyeing and mixed media. Aimed at makers developing a personal voice rather than at industrial production; hosts the paid Stitch Club.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.textileartist.org/

**Tags:** textile-art, embroidery, stitching, fibre-art, tutorials

### 4. textileinstitute.org

The Textile Institute is a professional body for textile professionals worldwide, offering membership, qualifications, events, and industry publications. The site features membership details, CPD resources, upcoming conferences, journals and technical articles, and industry news.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://textileinstitute.org

**Tags:** websites, trades-crafts, textile-sewing

### 5. coletterie.com

Coletterie is a sewing-focused resource from Colette Patterns offering beginner-friendly tutorials, technique guides, and step-by-step garment projects to help you learn sewing basics and patternmaking.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.seamwork.com/articles

**Tags:** websites, trades-crafts, textile-sewing

## Books

### 1. Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book

**Author:** Clive Hallett, Amanda Johnston

A physical swatch book with 125 mounted fabric samples: cottons, silks, wools, linens, bamboo, hemp and synthetics, each annotated with fibre content, weight and construction, so designers can judge drape and handle before specifying cloth.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780672330?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, trades-crafts, textile-sewing

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