Designing means New Fabrics!
As of January, Spoonflower has just stepped up the game when it comes to fabric designs by the independent artist community! Artists no longer have to purchase sample fabric proofs, wait for them to arrive by mail and once approved, offer them for sale through the Spoonflower website. Artist can now use Spoonflower's online digital proofing tool to detect any design flaws and resubmit revised files to make them immediately available for sale to the public. This most definitely provides a bit of financial relief for independent designers with limited budgets and helps better detect problematic design issues that may have otherwise gone undetected. To read more about how changes at Spoonflower impacts artists, here's a very well written article by Craft Industry Alliance that you should check out. The Designing Process Back in the early 90's, I was offered a unique opportunity to work with the Balson-Hercules Group (later became Balson Erlanger) who licensed my design
