Article (public access)
This article will cover Seersuckers, a type of fabric used in the market for many years. It will cover a brief description on the techniques used to produce this type of fabric as well as how to simulate it. Lately, fabrics that show texture are making their presence in the market. Seersuckers show a nice textured stripe effect that is fairly simple to make.
Make an ikat cloth with Pointcarré software (customers access)
The Pointcarre Textile Software offers a variety of tools that help achieve realistic simulations of fabrics, and its very flexible. It always seems to be more difficult to simulate a highly textured fabric. Pointcarre offers a possibility to arrive at such simulations at high quality. With its shading feature one can create ones own shadow effect and apply it to a fabric simulation for realistic textured look.
Modules and functions used in Pointcarré :
The Author : Michele Noble
mhnoble@hotmail.com
Michele Noble is a recent graduate from North Carolina State University where she finished a degree in Textile Technology and Design. She also did an internship with Pointcarre in France during a summer. Now she works at Cotton Inc. as an assistant woven designer, where she has also worked part-time as a student for two and a half years.