tessellations

Tessellation Winner: Hiding Birds Fabric by French Designer Jorz

April 22, 2010

Fabric Of the Week winner: Tessellations

Designer Jo Ruiz of Montreuil, France is our winner this week. Not only is she the second winner in a row from France, but (if my crude interpretation of the most recent post on her blog can be trusted), she first heard about Spoonflower from Nadja, who was last week's winner. Great designers flock together, I suppose. Jo's
lovely "Hiding Birds" won the most votes in our tessellation-themed
contest, and as a result she has $100 in Spoondollar credit to spend on
fabulous fabrics!

Thank you to all of the participating designers! The top finishers in the contest this week were:

1. 1308 votes for hiding_birds1
by jorz
2. 1077 votes for Arome by nadja_p
3. 627 votes for Wild Horses Tessellation
by mytinystar
4. 614 votes for duck duck goose by
rose'n'thorn
5. 541 votes for 4" Peacock – raspberry
by pixeldust
6. 504 votes for Spiral Cabbage by
helenklebesadel
7. 457 votes for Peacock tessellation by
emilyclaire
8. 423 votes for floral burst by mandyh

9. 406 votes for Margaritas by
cynthiafrenette
10. 390 votes for Blue bird & morning
glories by zeppomarks

Fabric Of the Week: Vote for your favorite tessellations!

April 15, 2010

Vote for your favorite tessellation fabrics

This week's Fabric Of the Week challenge is for the mathematically-minded among you. The task was to create fabric designs using tessellations, or designs that cover a plane (in this case fabric) with a shape repeated over and over again without any gaps. Not all of the designs in this week's contest qualify as tessellations from a mathematical perspective, so as you vote you'll have to decide which of the designers you feel managed to carry off the task best from both a design and a technical perspective.

VOTE FOR TESSELLATED FABRICS

The participants in this week's tessellation challenge are:

Upcoming fabric design contest themes: gardens, water colors, & tessellations

March 25, 2010

– For details on entering and information on rules, prizes, etc. see our Upcoming Contests page —

Tessellations. Design fabric using
the mathematical principle of tessellation, or tiling, where the
design consists of a shape repeated over and over again covering the
fabric
without any gaps or overlaps. This can be done very crudely, of course,
with squares, but for more sophisticated examples see the work of M. C. Escher
and the tile
mosaics of the Alhambra palace in Spain. You can find tutorials on
creating this sort of design, as well as examples, on Tessellations.org. Deadline is
Tuesday, April 13, at noon EST.

Water
Colors. Submit only fabric designs created using watercolor paints,
then digitized via scan or photograph. Please use minimal digital
manipulation in preparing your file for Spoonflower: the goal of this
contest is to showcase work done by hand. Deadline is Tuesday, April 6,
at noon EST.

Gardens. Contest
for fabric designs using gardens and gardening as a design motif. Entries
close on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, at noon EST.

[Note: Please do not enter designs that have appeared in previous contests.]