some guidelines
It’s useful to treat this design similar tohow you would design for a screenprint,simple block colours and shapes workwell.Please take a look at these pointers as arough guide to help design your rug thebest you can in whatever way of workingyou feel comfortable with, if you find thistoo technical please just email us thedesign and we can do it for you.Our prices are
£250 for 60 knot£350 for 100 knot
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You can create a rug of any sizeup to 5m x 5m.We have found it is helpful todesign with the individual carpetknots in mind. In 100 knot there are 560 carpetknots per 1m of rug.Therefore, a rug that measures1m x 2m could be designed as adigital file of 560 x 1120 pixels.For best results please make sureany line is at least 2 pixels wide toensure lines wont ‘disappear’ (seethe image on the right)
1. SIZE
original too low resolution...disappearing lines..
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We can interpret artwork as carpet for you but for best results it may be helpful foryou to design it as closely as possible to how it will appear as a rug.That way you can specify your design almost pixel by pixel which can be exactlytranslated to individual carpet knots.Here is a way to do this in Photoshop:2. Set pixels to be ‘aliased’
anti-aliased: pixels are a mix of white and black (shades of grey) aliased: pixels are either white or black
To alias your file follow these 3 steps:2a. preserve hard edges.Photoshop Preferences: General: Image interpolation > preserve hard edgesThis means if you resize an image it does not blur between pixels it keeps their color value integrity2b. anti aliasClick off 'anti alias pixels' on the tool bar preferences2c. individual pixelsThen use the pencil tool to colour individual pixels accurately
2. PIXEL x PIXEL
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3. THRESHOLD
Its best to avoid gradients and subtle tones. You may break down the image very effectively by using ‘threshold’and limiting the amount of colours. Let us know if you need help with this.As all this is woven by hand it isnt possible to do very complicated gradients.Its best to try and design around that
original a very basic two colour example a finished rug that made use of ‘thresholds’
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4. COLOUR
Everything has been dyed by hand in our project.The dyes are natural and it comes out quite earthy when combined withunbleached natural wool. It is worth bearing in mind that very vivid colours aren’tpossible in the traditional way our rugs are made.If you want to do your design as you wish we can do a mock up of it in our toneddown available colours and we will email it back for you to OK it or make changesWe can create Pantone colours to order but because of the natural processesinvolved colours do vary slightly (+/- 10%) For best results if you want to see yourdesign accurately you can choose your colours from this colour range as they aretried and tested.For ease we have created a colour swatch in Photoshop(see the attachment with this email)
Load it as follows:Save it in the folder:Applications > Adobe Photoshop > Presets > Colour SwatchesThen to load in your swatches panel in Photoshop. Go to ‘colour swatches’. In the top right of the panel click thepop out menu to load colour swatches.Monday, 1 October 12