The Spoonflower Handbook: A DIY Guide to Designing Fabric, Wallpaper & Gift Wrap with 30+ Projects

by Stephen Fraser, Judi Ketteler

An accessible guide to understanding and using Spoonflower to design your own fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap.Designing fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap used to be the stuff of dreams. Only a few select creatives got to do it, and it required formal training and significant financial investment. But times have changed, and today anyone with a computer, Internet connection, and idea can upload a file and order their own fabric or paper, printed affordably one yard or more at a time. At the forefront of this revolutionary DIY movement is Spoonflower, a North Carolina startup that produces designs for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide—twenty-four hours a day/seven days a week to keep up with demand. With step-by-step tutorials and projects that span a wide spectrum of skills, The Spoonflower Handbook is written for both new and experienced users of this print-on-demand technology. Covering everything from equipment to software to working with photos, scans, repeats, vector files, and more, it is an essential guide to a booming new creative outlet.

Genres: Crafts, Nonfiction, Sewing

523 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 31, 2022

Reviews

[Kelly Nester · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good tips and lovely images but not what I was expecting; I’d love to read another book that has more about how to design a pattern (more on spacing, movement, how to set up a random tile for repeat, more on colors, etc… the art part of it. Rather than a bunch of physical projects that I will never make. Still glad I read it, tho!! 😊😊😊

[Max · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent intro to designing for printing on textiles and wallpaper with Spoonflower. It did not contain any earthshattering new ideas for me, as I am already familiar with Inkscape and Gimp, but still contained a number of good hints that are specific to printing on textiles and wallpaper, and would probably serve as a decent introduction to basic graphic design in a pinch. (If you order directly from spoonflower, they throw in a set of test swatches and a color guide, which is quite helpful)

[Karen Calhoun · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good intro to Spoonflower- originally a print-on-demand service for fabric, now including wallpaper and other design goodies. The section about deciding on the number of pixels to save for printing was useful. Much of the book was about using the various functions for design on Spoonflower, which appear to closely parallel those of Adobe Illustrator.