Giveaway: Digital Textile Design

Jasonda Desmond has left many helpful and interesting comments over the years.

This is a subject near and dear to my heart. I’m very interested in fabric design and this is one book I don’t have. Jasonda Desmond’s (Dotty Logic) review is very interesting. The mention of tutorials illustrating how the design would appear on a finished garment makes me more interested in this book. I’d love to be entered in this give-away. I admit I’m shameless but I love a give-away. :)

I appreciate concisely written reviews. Thank you Jasonda Desmond.

The original edition of Digital Textile Design covered ‘everything’ students and practitioners of textile design need to learn about designing and printing digitally. I was curious to know how they would update the information for this edition, Jasonada Desmond does a great job of spelling out the value and shortcomings (technology is evolving so quickly that it is increasingly difficult for traditional textbooks to keep pace).

Thanks so much Jasonada Desmond for this review. We are looking into printing and dyeing fabric.

After reading Jasonada Desmond’s review, I will most certainly consider purchasing this book!

Thanks to Jasonda Desmond for a very helpful review. I truly have an idea of what is in the book and not just an opinion of it. And I would love to have it. I dream of doing art to wear, and sometimes do it, usually in the form of church vestments. This would be a great tool and idea provoker.

Dotty Logic is now bookmarked, thanks Jasonda Desmond. I hope I can squeeze time in so I can check this book out and brush up on my textile design skills, which are very rusty these days.

I loved Jasonda Desmond’s review of this book! It’s an area I’ve become very interested in, an
d her review gave all the best info. It sounds like a great book! Beth Laske-miller

Jasonda, thank you for the writing the review of Digital Textile Design. I am very interested in engineered prints and textile repeats. I’m just starting to play at Spoonflower and this book would be very helpful.

As always, Kathleen’s unerring commitment to presenting the best possible information has come through again. This book by Jasonda Desmond contains the approaches and techniques to enter into an exciting and very active sector of the textile design world.

Thank you for the introduction and the stimulation!

I would like to thank Jasonda Desmond (Dotty Logic) for her review on this book as I am still building my library. I actually have done design of fabric in the past and would love more info for future projects. So yes, please enter me into the drawing.

Jasonda Desmond’s review was very helpful. Does she have any recommendations for books that would be of more interest to those who wish to become surface or textile designers?

Jasonda Desmond review was very helpful. The indept analysis of the book made it was for me to compare Digital Textile Design to some of the other books on digital textile design that I have already. Thanks for your time in writing this review!

Jasonda Desmond? Can I please peek into your brain? I need help creating production ‘print-ready’ files for engineered garments. I’d like to eliminate that problem of differing rates of shrinkage of the same fabric from the same factory, but on different rolls. I could do with more Photoshop skill refinements to develop better artworks.

I would appreciate having the book, if only to beat my arse to best my lofty nosy ideas of myself. And yes Kathleen, I would pay for shipping!

Thanks everyone for the great comments. I am glad the review was helpful!

For those interested in learning more about surface design for fabric, I would recommend “Mastering the Art of Fabric Printing and Design” by Laurie Wisbrun and “A Field Guide to Fabric Design” by Kimberly Kight. There is some overlapping content between these books and Digital Textile Design but they are all great resources.

It’s clear that Jasonda Desmond could write a better, or at least most complete version of the book :-). Let’s hope she eventually does! But it’s great that she points out this one, as there isn’t yet much available at all on the topic. And those of us with an amateur appreciation for the field are certainly better off to start from a digital angle. It sounds like this book would be the perfect companion to a beginner on spoonflower :-).

Kathleen, Thanks for organizing another giveaway. It’s such a fun activity during the holidays. Digital Textile Design, as reviewed by guest author Jasonda Desmond, looks like an exciting read and a treasured resource. I’m eager to acquire my copy.

Jasonda Desmond’s review of this book has gotten me interested.

Thanks for the review!!

Jasonda Desmond has written a review on a book about digital printing. Thanks for the review.

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