Print Your Own Vintage Fabrics CD

Description

This CD contains:

A 13 page tutorial called “A beginners guide to creating digital Fabrics and 360 digital fabric swatches.

Tutorial: With screen shots and written instruction, the beginners guide shows you how to create a plaid “fabric” or digital image using Photoshop Elements®, the most minimal program offered by Adobe®. With fabric that has been prepared for printing, this image can be printed on any inkjet printer for use with any project.

Fabric Swatches: 360 photo images in pdf or jpg format of fabrics organized by era and divided into 8 categories:

Vintage Origin:

• 24 fabrics from the 1920s
• 22 fabrics from the 1930s
• 37 fabrics from the 1940s
• 69 fabrics from the 1950s
• 30 fabrics from the 1960s
• 55 fabrics with unknown dates identified as “various”
• 111 fabrics identified as “feedsacks”

Used in the early 19th century, a feedsack is a cloth container that replaced expensive and heavy barrels and tins for the transport and storage of flour, animal feed, and other bulk soft goods.

Modern Origin:

• 12 digitally created printable fabrics, including the image created with the tutorial