Textile Print Designer Freelance in London

Zoe is a freelance fashion and textile print designer, with over twenty years experience in the fashion and textiles industry. Based in Essex, a short distance from central London, she is available to hire from her own printing studios, or to work in-house when required.

A textile designer needs a good eye for colour and for detail. They create two-dimensional designs to be used as repeats in the fashion industry as well as interior design and furnishings.

Zoe offers a multi-product textile print, design, and development service for designers, fashion startups, small businesses, high street brands, retailers, and individual clients.

• Multiple Products: Zoe's work covers surface pattern design for multiple products, including rugs, throws, towels, curtains, upholstery, bespoke wall hangings, soft furnishings, and custom textiles for clothing brands.
• Fashion Prints: Zoe has a solid background in the fashion and textiles industry, having worked on fabric printing for womenswear, childrenswear, and menswear. She has a highly distinctive commercial handwriting across florals, animal prints, abstracts, vintage, conversational pieces.
• Mood Board Creation: Clients are encouraged to create a mood board to help provide inspiration, focus and direction, as well as to convey their ideas to colleagues and buyers. Zoe can help you create a customised mood board based on the client's brief.
• Research: In order to create an effective mood board, it is necessary to collect useful information over a period of time. Researching design trends is an essential part of the job.
• Designs: Once you have created your mood board, and discussed your thoughts with Zoe, you should have a clear idea of what you want. Zoe will then create a production-ready print for you, based on your own ideas and inspirations.
• Adobe Illustrator And Photoshop: Computer-aided design (CAD) enables textile designers to use their creativity to the fullest. Zoe creates all her print designs on either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
• Creating A Repeat Design: For a large piece of fabric to be printed continuously and smoothly, the design must be printed using a series of identical repeat tiles that form a seamless overall design.
• All Over Print Design: All-Over-Prints (AOP) is widely used for different types of products, especially in streetwear products such as T-shirts, hoodies, and sweatshirts.
• Direct To Garment Printing: Direct-To-Garment printing (DTG) is not limited to specific print areas.
• Print Direction: Zoe can discuss with you and advise on print direction and layout, which will affect the look of the garment.
• Colour Separated Layers: For ease of colour change, most of our prints have each colour separated, so that it is easy to play around with colour ways.
• Using Pantone Colour References: Colours can look very different onscreen to real life, so it is important to ensure that printers have a good reference for the colours you choose.
• Scale: Scale is very important for prints, and Zoe will help you decide on the right scale for your product.
• Development Of Bought Prints: Zoe can also help you develop a print you have bought as an idea, or a vintage find into a workable commercial print.
• Using Vintage Sample Prints: You may have a lovely vintage print that you have bought or sourced and want this developed into a print you can use.
• Textile Printing Tuition: Zoe offers one-to-one tuition for anyone interested in learning textile print design. Classes can be face to face in Essex, or online via Zoom.

To become a fabric print designer, a degree in textile design is often required, but talent and a willingness to learn are more important than qualifications.