We recently introduced to you all our Kawaii Otters design, and one person commented that it would make a great summer dress. It got us to thinking — what if we offered a selection of our designs as fabric available at Spoonflower?
The Kawaii Otters is the first of what we hope will become a successful line of fabrics. It will take us a while to get a more complete selection up for two reasons.
First, we want to make sure that we choose only designs that lend themselves very well to the repeat pattern necessary for a fabric. The otters, for example, have a great flow to them when repeated, becoming almost a Kawaii paisley. We want to make sure that any fabrics we offer work just as well.
Second, Spoonflower’s policy is that fabrics cannot be made available to the public until the artist has purchased some of it themselves, as a physical proof that it prints well. This is a great rule for quality control, but it does mean that I can’t just roll out 10 designs all at once — I need to wait until I can afford them!
The otters fabric prints with a bit less saturation of color than it appears in the Spoonflower image — but I’ve found this to be true of their fabrics in general, at least in the basic cottons. I love the way the otters look against their blue water background, and made a skirt out of my sample yard to show how the fabric will look in practice.
You can purchase our Kawaii Paisley Ottters fabric on Spoonflower now.
Any other Storied Threads designs you’d love to see as fabric? Let us know!
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