r/Textile_Design

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a textile designer to work on a new luxury homeware brand inspired by South Asian heritage textiles, especially Pakistani craftsmanship and soft, refined Jaipuri-style motifs.

The first collection will include:

• Bedsheets
• Tablecloths
• Robes

I’m looking for someone who can take a mood board and turn it into beautiful, production-ready designs for fabric and embroidery.

What I need from the designer:

• Experience in textile or surface design
• Ability to create placement designs for homeware
• Understanding of embroidery placement and stitch-friendly design
• Ideally experience with bedsheets, linens, robes, or other home textiles
• Portfolio samples
• Ability to work with a clear creative direction and refine ideas into final designs

Preferred location: Pakistan-based is ideal, especially Lahore or Karachi, but I’m open to talented designers elsewhere too.

Please DM me with your portfolio, a bit about your experience, and your rates if this sounds like a fit.

So I’m trying to sort out a birthday gift for my mom this year. She casually mentioned last weekend (while we were doing dishes lol) that she misses having printed photos around and everything being “stuck on phones now.”

That got me thinking about doing one of those custom photo things, like collage canvases or whatever, but I keep getting ads and search results for custom blankets with a bunch of family pics on them. Some of them actually look pretty nice, not the weird pixelated kind I remember from years ago.

Has anyone here given/received a photo blanket as a main gift? Did it feel special or more like a novelty thing that ends up in a closet? I’m aiming for something sentimental but also actually used, not just “aww cute” and then never touched again.

If you’ve tried these, what made it feel high quality vs tacky - material, size, number of photos, colors, anything? And would you pair it with something small or is that enough as the main gift for a mom in her 60s?

Hi everyone,

I’m a surface pattern designer selling on Spoonflower and Etsy, and I’m trying to optimize my AI workflow.

The Problem:

Whether I use DALL-E 3, nano banana pro, or other AI generators, creating a "seamless repeating pattern" is never mathematically 100% perfect. Even with the tightest prompts, there is almost always a 1% to 5% mismatch at the edges where elements are abruptly cut off or don't align perfectly when tiled.

My Current Workflow:

Right now, I generate the image, take it into Photoshop/Photopea, use the Offset filter to bring the edges to the center, and manually use the Clone Stamp tool to fix the broken motifs. It works, but it's tedious when processing dozens of designs.

My Question:

Is there a fully automated AI tool, a specific workflow, or a hidden trick that guarantees a 100% flawless mathematical seamless repeat right out of the box?

Are there dedicated AI generators built specifically for surface pattern designers that don't mess up the edges?

Do you use a specific node/extension in Stable Diffusion for flawless tiling?

Are there any post-processing AI upscalers/fixers that automatically heal the seams?

I'd love to hear how you guys are handling this bottleneck. Thanks in advance!