Week 7: Creating a Colour and Fabric Board

Task 2: CREATING A COLOUR & FABRIC BOARD

Step 1:Choosing Fabrics and Colours from Pantone (Max.8 each)

Step 1a. Finding Close-up of Fabric (weaving)

During the initial selection of fabric, I thought of the fabric weight and I wanted my fabric to be lightweight or light to medium weight.

Fabric Categorization

After my research, I realized that there was a difference between the fabric weight and how fabric drapes too! This means that a light weight fabric can be stiff when it drapes and a heavy weight fabric could even be less stiff than the lighter weight fabrics. Currently, I want my fabric to be a mixture of the drapey and stiff.

So far, I have done a few sketches and I have a rough idea of what texture I am looking for.
I like to play with layers in my designs so I was thinking of using contrasting fabrics in each of the layers.

Rough Sketch

Finally, these are my selected fabrics:
(They are mainly made from natural fibers like silk and cotton)

1)Organdy
2)Organza
3)Silk Crepe
4)Voile
5)Batiste

I also realized that the fabrics I have chosen all have a slight sheen and are very lightweight.

Step 1b. Reference colours from Pantone site (with colour code)

Just like my moodboard, my colour palette will be more of pale earth tones.

(Source: Pantone)

Step 2:Creating Board Using Photoshop

Step 2a. Changing Colour of Fabric
I learn that we can use the image colour adjustment tool to change the hue/saturation of our fabric, to make the colours SIMILAR to the tone of our moodboard and collection.
OR...
We can also pick up colours from the moodboard to layer over our (cropped) fabric, such that we could get the EXACT colour we want.

Step 2b. Picking up Colours from Moodboard
 This is actually an easy step; However I feel that choosing the right colour is crucial here, because it narrows down the colours from the moodboard and determines the exact tone for my collection.