Final Fabric samples.

As my designs have a high amount of colour and detail i felt digital printing would be the most professional way to produce them. If i had decided to screen print my designs i would need a vast amount of screens and registration points which could have meant my hues would not line up correctly producing a less professional finish than digital printing. As my collection is still mainly aimed at boys and a low end market i decided not to use any foils, flocks or decorative finishes as i wanted to keep the production costs as low as possible.

I decided to get my three fabrics printed at 1x 1 meter so the repeat would be visible within my fabric samples. Now having trimmed down my fabrics to this size i feel this is appropriate as the viewer can see the full extent of the pattern. I feel DG was correct when suggesting for myself to make the scale of my roll design bigger as now each monster has room to breathe and does not appear to be so compact.

I have decided to produce three fabrics as this was a suggestion from Keireine. This has allowed myself to demonstrate how my designs would look on two different substrates for pj’s and one for a onesie. I feel the substrate plush minky which i selected for the onesie would need to be used on the exterior and lining of this product to ensure the garment feels warm and soft to the touch on both the interior and exterior. This would also allow myself to make the onesie reversible with one design on the lining and one on the exterior. I feel this would really appeal to my target market.

Reflecting back i wish i had developed my alternate colour way before having my fabrics produced as it would have been nice to have two of the same designs in varying colour ways instead of two of exactly the same designs on different substrates. Despite this, i am glad i ordered my meter fabrics when i did following the issues i had with my samples to ensure i had my outcomes on time for the December deadline.

Out of the three fabrics i feel the loopback sweatshirt and my sheet design is the least successful as it has come out awfully dark with limited contrast between the foreground and background. If i were to have this design produced again i would lighten the tone of the background hue and make the scale of the text bigger to ensure there was a greater contrast between the colours and imagery.

As it was within my gift wear collection i designed these fabrics with the intention that my monster roll design is the hero design and the text sheet design is the secondary design. However, despite i feel this worked within my gift wear collection i feel it is not so successful when only having two designs produced within my fabric collection. Reflecting back i should have selected a design which was not quite so busy and contains more negative space for my secondary design in order to create more of a contrast between my printed fabrics. Despite this, i feel these two designs do work well together within my product mockups.

Except from the details listed above i am happy with these fabric outcomes and love finally having my designs on fabric. Although i did enjoy creating my paper gift wear collection having my designs on a fabric substrate is awfully satisfying.