DIGITAL PRINT AND DESIGN RESOURCES
Digital print bureaus
UK
Artisan: tel. 0044 (0)1625 869859
CAD Works UK Ltd (pigment printing only): www.cadworksuk.co.uk
Centre for Advanced Textiles: www.catdigital.co.uk
Colplan Engineering Ltd: tel. 0044 (0)1706 655899
Digetex: www.digetex.com
Digital Fashion Print, London College of Fashion: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk
Direct Textile Imaging Ltd (heat-transfer printing): tel. 0044 (0)1706 656070
Elanbach: www.elanbach.com
FabPad: www.fabricprint.co.uk
Forest Digital: www.forestdigital.co.uk
J. A. Gillmartin: www.camerongilmartin.co.uk
RA Smart Ltd: www.rasmart.co.uk
The Silk Bureau: www.silkbureau.co.uk
USA
Advanced Digital Textiles: www.advdigitaltextiles.com
Carlisle Finishing LLC: www.itg-global.com
Custom Fabric Printing: www.customprintedfabrics.com
Dream Digital Fabric Printing Services www.dreamfabricprinting.com
Dye-Namix: www.dyenamix.com
Fabrics2Dye4, LLC: www.fabrics2dye4.com
First2Print: www.first2print.com
Karma Kraft: www. karmakraft.com LTS Design: www.ltsdesign.net
ROTHTEC Engraving Corporation: www.rothtec.com
Spoonflower: www.spoonflower.com
The Style Council: www.stylecouncil.com
Supersample: www.supersample.com
Digital printer suppliers
AVA: www.avacadcam.com (international)
Digifab: www.digifab.com (USA)
ITNH: www.itnh.com (USA)
Jacquard Inkjet Fabric Systems: www.inkjetfabrics.com (USA)
Sawgrass: www.sawgrassink.com (international)
Stork: www.storkprints.com (international)
RA Smart Ltd: www.rasmart.co.uk (UK)
Software manufacturers
Adobe software (design): www.adobe.com
Aleph (design, color management, RIP): www.alephteam.com
Artlandia Symmetry Works (design): www.artlandia.com
AVA (design, color management, RIP): www.avacadcam.com
Clickdesign (design): www.clicdesign.com
EAT (design): www.designscopecompany.com
Ergo Soft (color management, RIP):www.ergosoft.ch
Lectra (design, color management, RIP): www.lectra.com
NedGraphics (design, color management, RIP): www.nedgraphics.com
Pointcarré (design, color management, RIP): www.pointcarre.com
Scotweave (design): www.scotweave.com
Shiraz (color management): www.uscgp.com
Stork (color management, RIP): www.storktextile.com
Wasatch (color management): www.wasatch.com
Yxendis (design): www.yxendis.com
Color management hardware
X-Rite: www.usa.gretagmacbethstore.com
Fabric and ink suppliers
UK
AVA (ink): www.avacadcam.com
Colplan Engineering Ltd (ink): tel. 0044 (0)1706 655899
RA Smart Ltd (ink and fabric): www.rasmart.co.uk
Target Transfers (CAD/CUT materials): www.targettransfer.com
Whaleys of Bradford (fabric): www.whaleys.co.uk
USA
AVA (ink): www.avacadcam.com
Digifab (fabric): www.digifab.com
Fisher (fabric): www.fishertextiles.com
Jacquard Inkjet Fabric Systems (ink and fabric): www.inkjetfabrics.com
Stork (ink): www.storkprints.com
Further reading
Adobe Creative Team, Adobe Illustrator CS5: Classroom in a Book, Adobe, 2010
Adobe Creative Team, Adobe Photoshop CS5: Classroom in a Book, Adobe, 2010
Borrelli, Laird, Fashion Illustration by Fashion Designers, Thames & Hudson, 2008
Borrelli, Laird, Fashion Illustration Next, Thames & Hudson, 2004
Braddock Clarke, Sarah E., and Marie O’Mahony, Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design, Thames & Hudson, 2005
Brown, Claudia, and Jessie Whipple Vickery, Repeat After Me: Creating Pattern Repeats in Illustrator and Photoshop, www.patternpeople.com/ebook
Colchester, Chloë, Textiles Today, Thames & Hudson, 2009
Cole, Drusilla, Patterns, Laurence King Publishing, 2008
Colussy, Kathleen M., and Steve Greenberg, Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints With Adobe Illustrator, Prentice Hall, 2006
Da Cruz, Elyssa, and Sandy Black, Fashioning Fabrics: Contemporary Textiles in Fashion, Black Dog Publishing, 2006
Fogg, Marnie, Print in Fashion, Batsford, 2009
Jenkyn Jones, Sue, Fashion Design, 3rd edition, Laurence King Publishing, 2011
Knight, Kimberly, A Field Guide to Fabric Design, Stash Books, 2011
Tallon, Kevin, Digital Fashion Print with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Batsford, 2011
Udale, Jenny, Textiles and Fashion, AVA, 2008
Ujiie, Hitoshi (ed.), Digital Printing of Textiles, Woodhead Publishing, 2006
Useful Information
American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists: www.aatcc.org
Melanie Bowles, Senior Lecturer in Digital Textiles, Chelsea College of Art and Design: www.melaniebowles.co.uk
Computer Arts (monthly publication): www.computerarts.co.uk
Digital Arts (monthly publication): www.digitalartsonline.co.uk
Digital Stylist (news, software updates, and tutorials in digital design): www.thedigitalstylist.com
Digital Textile (textile industry news website): www.inteletex.com
The Dover Bookshop (copyright-free books and images): www.doverbooks.co.uk
Hitoshi Ujiie, Center for Excellence of Digital Inket Printing of Textiles: www.hitoshiujiie.com
Ceri Isaac, specialist in digital textile design and printing: ceriisaac.wordpress.com
Society of Dyers and Colourists: www.sdc.org.uk
TC2 (non-profit organization that provides information and undertakes research into emerging technologies within the industry): www.tc2.com
TECHEXCHANGE (online trade publication and sourcing portal for technology solutions for the textile industry): www.techexchange.com
Textiles Environment Design: www.tedresearch.net
Textile Futures Research Centre: www.tfrc.org.uk
Trade shows
CITDA (American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists): www.aatcc.org
FESPA (Federation of European Screenprinters Associations, organizer of the world’s leading screenprinting and digital-imaging exhibitions): www.fespa.com
ITMA (The worlds largest international exhibition of textile machinery): www.itma.com
Protextiledigital (European digital textile show): www.english.protextiledigital.com