As I mentioned last week, I placed an exploratory order with Spoonflower, an online service bureau that custom prints fabric (of all sorts, from cotton sheets to upholstery canvas to silk) with whatever you want. I created an immense image that’s a collage of many of the paintings that I’ve done and uploaded it — if you like it, you can buy fabric with this print on it here — and today got my order. Their “official” delivery date wasn’t until next week so I’m thrilled with how quickly they processed and shipped the order. It looks absolutely stunning. The colours are deeply saturated and the inks look like they’re embedded in the fibres rather than just floating on the surface. The quality is superb. I chose heavy upholstery fabric and Caitlin is going to be making a quilt out of it, but there are so many things I can imagine doing — an obvious example would be uploading photos of loved ones to make pillows and things like that, or even just using it for tapestries, as an alternative to posters for large-scale printing. Most of these images in my print were nice and high resolution, but there were a few paintings that were as low as 60dpi and even they turned out beautifully, with smooth lines and tones with no visible pixelation in any of it. I’m very happy with what I got from Spoonflower and definitely recommend them. Plus the price was great.
You can zoom in on this picture by clicking on it, and there are three close-up images after the break, all of which you can zoom in on as well.
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That’s amazing. I can totally see using this as another medium for displaying photography. Thanks for sharing the review!
The fabric junkie in me is excited that my painting is in the mix. :)
That is just an incredible piece of work!
Wow, that looks fantastic!
This is great! I’d really like to order some to use as a wall hanging and was wondering if you knew the dimensions of the repeating pattern? Looks like it’s probably 1 yard vertically by 3 yards horizontally? Thanks!
Ashley, if you mean my pattern of the paintings, if you print it at 300DPI it sizes to 54″ wide by 24″ high (that’s how I printed it here, with an offset brick layout). However I’m pretty sure you can request that the tile size is made smaller or larger… Unless it’s only showing me those options because I’m the design owner?
Oh sorry the size is 54″ by 28″. I just fixed it, because it was twice that size when I first posted this for some reason. However, fixing it may have caused a technical glitch, although it could just be having to wait for the server due to the nearly 400 meg file being processed.
At least on my computer though something has gone wrong with the page on spoonflower and I can’t currently see the image so I’ll get to the bottom of it assuming it’s not just on my computer.
Thanks Shannon, yeah the page looks broken now to me too. Before it was broken I was getting options to specify the vertical height to order but I couldn’t see a way to have anything but 1 yard in width…
I guess check back tomorrow. Worst case I will re-upload it to a new URL. Sorry…
So many of my favorite images from your blog in one place!
Amazeballs!!!
Looks like they fixed it by the way.
Ordered!
It looks awesome! I got some spoonflower fabric from their free swatch day, but the pattern only came in 150 DPI so it’s considerably less impressive. That is amaaaazing, though.
nice going! love your paintings! I’ve been looking for a place like spoonflower – thx for the turn-on!!!
aloha -
Angela
Very cool
Stunning is the perfect description!
seriously great!
Looks amazing!
I won a design contest when Spoonflower was a lot newer.
The prize was several yards of fabric.
They were quick, and the fabric is still kickin’ ass.
It makes me want to take up quilting.
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