The fabric design specializes in customized hand-marbled art fabrics for sewing, craft, quilting and wearable art projects. The design department is here to help you explore new ideas particularly in textiles.

Fabric design comes with a plug-in illustrator letting you make surface pattern designs in seconds. This lets you save hours of work and painstaking efforts by taking the selected part of your artwork and automatically applies all the necessary rotations, reflections and other transformations in order to create a pattern. The plug-in then keeps all elements of the pattern hot-linked to the original artwork. The plug-in immediately updates the entire pattern when you interactively edit the original.

The fabric design tool allows you to create pattern designs whether you are an experienced professional or just a student. You can create a hundred times faster, better and more imaginatively through the help of this software. The tool of choice is provided for surface, textile, and quilt designers, interior decorators, stationery developers, fine artists and other creative professionals. The printdesigns are kept resolution-free. This is ideal whether you are creating fashionable printed apparel or traditional woven upholstery, small-scale contract interiors or full-size decorative fabric. The patterns are made from traditional to a more modern look. Some are directional and others are more suitable for nondirectional projects.

More productivity features are provided for fabric design software. It has unique collection of layouts including the built-in drop and brick repeats, stripe, grid, sateen, and more. With the composite repeat feature, the motif is rotated around the center three times and then put it brick repeat. The plug-in automatically updates the entire design as you interactively edit the branch.

Each fabric that has some distinctive twist:

*Linen – the tighter the weave, the more distinctive pattern. Colored linen is far more subdued pattern.

*White Cotton – every possible flaw will show; tone-to-tone patterns; pattern are very distinct and can work well as both focus and background fabrics.

*Colored Cotton – subdued yet very elegant patterns that can be accented with a different color; creates a tone-to-tone look; would be great as background fabric to give some very subtle texture that reacts well when light strikes it.

*Silk – one of the best fabrics for marbling; colors and patterns are very distinct and almost transparent.

*Chiffon – very lightweight; needs extra handling in the pretreating process; will give a very light, airy effect.

*Poly-blends – make great choices for marbled pieces for wearable art with increase in polyblends.

*Broadcloth – marbles wonderfully, colors and pattern are very distinct.

*Velveteen – needs a lot of pre- and post-treatment to restore the nap, but the effect is like leather. It is wonderfully rich, done on a white base of velveteen.

*Satin – produces interesting results, depending on the type of satin.

*Rayon – colored rayon produces some very dramatic designs as artwork.

*Denim/Other – white denim give a very classy look, especially if marbled with the grain in just the right pattern. Blue denim gives a very subdued look in the pattern.