ABSTRACT
When embarking on a custom textile journey, sometimes the most daunting part isn’t designing the textile, but all of the digital components that go hand in hand with digital textile creation. Below is a list of basic digital vocabulary as it pertains to digital textile creation. While the physical 3D world can be measured in various ways of categorizing matter such as mass, weight, and dimensions, digital images are made up of pixels. Pixels are digital dots that comprise a digital image but have no set dimension, and may be printed at various sizes. A scan is a digital copy or file created by taking a physical piece of material and scanning in or taking a digital read of the material to be processed by the computer. A digital “oil paint” filter was applied to give the floral images a sketched and watercolored feeling that was characteristic of textiles in the 1940s and 1950s.
