widlarizer
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I've been obsessed with fabric. I also like a lot of the metalheart/vector stuff you guys do. And I've been wondering what to do with the stupid big white wall in my room. With the magic of ordering custom stuff from China, it's possible to get, say, 130x160cm tapestries made in a machine-woven jacquard twill for cheap. No printing on top of fabric, tapestries create the desired patterns by controlling the weaving of various colors of thread. The results seem to look particularly beautiful on designs that have a limited color palette which seems to be almost the norm with metalheart at least. A random supplier I looked at asks for $150 for the first sample, and then only like $10 per any additional piece with that one design, since all the design software handling and overhead is paid for.
Do you have designs that would work well in a strange sort of digital rendering into a woven fabric? There's interesting limitations to the technology but I think it would look sick as hell. I'm basically willing to foot the bill for the first sample. I'm not trying to make money, this isn't self-promo. If it ends up looking good on my wall, you could order more (at that cheaper rate) and sell it to your bsky followers or whatever. And you're free to take this idea and just run with it, getting stuff made for your art print store or for your own room. I kind of just want cool stuff on my wall.
What the tech does well: solids, simple gradients, limited sets of color
What it does less well: skintones, complex deep colors like in photographs, many colors in the same row or column because of warp/weft thread color selection
Images taken from customer reviews to make sure they're not doctored by vendors:
Do you have designs that would work well in a strange sort of digital rendering into a woven fabric? There's interesting limitations to the technology but I think it would look sick as hell. I'm basically willing to foot the bill for the first sample. I'm not trying to make money, this isn't self-promo. If it ends up looking good on my wall, you could order more (at that cheaper rate) and sell it to your bsky followers or whatever. And you're free to take this idea and just run with it, getting stuff made for your art print store or for your own room. I kind of just want cool stuff on my wall.
What the tech does well: solids, simple gradients, limited sets of color
What it does less well: skintones, complex deep colors like in photographs, many colors in the same row or column because of warp/weft thread color selection
Images taken from customer reviews to make sure they're not doctored by vendors:
