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Surface Design

Category: <span>Surface Design</span>

Surface design adds layers of interest to your art with painting on fabric, fabric manipulation, textile dyes and more. Acrylic paint is fabric-friendly, so easy to use and widely available. If you prefer, you can use fabric dyes, pens and markers in your designs with resists, stencils and stamps. For more options, try fabric manipulation techniques – they create sculptural effects, bringing depth and dimension to your art.

Browse through our projects and inspiration that feature surface design.

Eco Printing and Dyeing

Surface Design Inspiration

Frankincense

Spotlight Terri Shinn, Textile Artist

Asking "what if" inspires Terri Shinn to experiment with texture and color to achieve her vision of the world, often from a macro perspective. She gets close to her subjects...

Jane Dunnewold Alliance Completed

Spotlight: Jane Dunnewold, Artist, Author, Educator

Creating is vital to the person who is Jane Dunnewold. When not experimenting with surface design techniques and materials and making textile art, she teaches others to find their creative...

Francesca Penchant 2016-Sorceress

Spotlight: Francesca Penchant, Multidisciplinary Artist

A multidisciplinary artist, Francesca Penchant stretches the boundaries of visual art by embracing and celebrating differences. Whether working in surface design, wearable art, photography or film, she finds joy in...

Eco Printing and Dyeing on Textiles

More Eco Printing and Dyeing Inspiration
Porcelain Vine I

Spotlight: Lotta Helleberg, Fiber Artist

Combining the essence of the flora that surrounds her Virginia home with her Scandinavian esthetic, Lotta Helleberg uses botanical contact printing (AKA eco-printing) as a foundation for her fiber art....

Artemis

Spotlight: Chris McLaughlin, Fiber Artist

As a suburban child, Chris McLaughlin knew she was always a farmer at heart. Now she lives her dream raising animals for fiber and flowers for bouquets and botanical dyes. As...

Tatiana Sarasa Purl and Poem hand dyed yarn

Spotlight: Tatiana Sarasa, Visual Artist

Tatiana Sarasa's art connects her with the earth. That connection gives her so much satisfaction that she promotes the connection through her own work and by providing a collaborative workspace...

More Surface Design

Finished bins

How to Make Blossom Bins

I've designed the Blossom Bin pattern in three sizes - from tiny to medium and large. These Blossom Bins are made with Kraft-Tex.
Textile piece

Spotlight: Cas Holmes, Textile Artist

To explore Cas Holmes' work, you have to engage with layers - layers of fabric, paper, paint, ephemera and stitch that bring the often overlooked to the front of mind.
En Route by Faith Hagenhofer

Spotlight: Faith Hagenhofer, Fiber Artist and Shepherd

For as long as she can remember, Faith Hagenhofer has made creative things. But when she and the hands-on process of feltmaking connected, it was kismet - and she shows…
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Kim Ritter

Spotlight: Kim Ritter, Quilt Artist

Kim Ritter loves computers and quilts and has created her unique style of art quilting by combining the two. Kim's quilts are full of color, humor and a little something…
Bird quilt made with TAP by Lesley Riley

Spotlight: Lesley Riley, Mixed Media Artist

With an artist inside waiting for release, Lesley Riley's imagination collects and combines words and images. Then she sets them free. From fiber to collage to painting to cyanotype to…
Print and block made by Coral Black

Spotlight: Coral Black, Painter and Block Printer

Painting and block printing are hands-on media, perfect for this hands-on artist. Inspired by the natural wonders that await around every bend in the Pacific Northwest, Coral Black captures the…
On the Road - Road Rage

Spotlight: Sandra Sider, Artist, Critic and Curator

A champion of the studio art quilt, Sandra Sider makes her own art while advancing the medium by writing books, teaching and curating exhibits. With her passion to "get it…
Dressed as a wizard

Spotlight: Jason Woodland, Cosplay Artist

Creating alternate worlds is at the heart of Jason Woodland's art. As a child, he would make up stories for pretend play with his friends. Today he creates props, costumes…
Artemis

Spotlight: Chris McLaughlin, Fiber Artist

As a suburban child, Chris McLaughlin knew she was always a farmer at heart. Now she lives her dream raising animals for fiber and flowers for bouquets and botanical dyes.…

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