Pattern Making Course
This Pattern Making Course equips you with essential skills to craft professional repeat patterns for hand-printed textiles like tote bags and accessories. From designing motifs and planning layouts to aligning tiles seamlessly and preparing technical packs with colours, sizes, and artisan guides, you'll produce beautiful, durable, and production-ready designs that stand out in Kenyan markets.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills to design and create seamless, reliable repeat patterns for hand printing on textiles. Master motif building, various repeat layouts like straight, half-drop, and half-brick, precise spacing, rhythm, and tile alignment. Adapt patterns for block printing, stencils, and basic screens, while defining themes, target users, colour palettes, exact dimensions, repeats, production constraints, and detailed instructions for consistent quality output.
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Develop skills
- Plan repeat layouts by selecting straight, half-drop, or half-brick arrangements for fabrics.
- Design print-ready motifs optimising size, spacing, and negative space manually.
- Build seamless tiles ensuring perfect edge alignment for professional hand-printed repeats.
- Adapt motifs to printing methods including blocks, stencils, and simple screens.
- Create professional technical packs documenting colours, fabrics, repeats, and artisan instructions.
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