Design Challenge 15 / Oversized Paisley

The Oversized Paisley Challenge

Design challenge week Fifteen. The surface pattern marketplace sends out a weekly design challenge to all creative designers that have joined their marketplace. The weekly design challenge is a great way to really test their creativity and skills. By accepting the challenge they then have to create a design in their handwriting, giving their own interpretation of the challenge.

The Oversized Paisley Surface Pattern

Each week the surface pattern marketplace chooses a topic that is relevant or has recently been in the fashion or home interiors blogs or trend news.

Paisley Textile Designs

This week they decided the challenge on a recent Paris Runway Show, exhibiting some amazing enlarged paisley patterns for women’s wear Fall 2019/ 2020.

History of the Paisley Prints

This popular twisted teardrop pattern has a Persian (Iranian)origin, but its western name originates from the town of paisley, in West Scotland. The paisley pattern traces its origins back to Persia and the Sassanid Empire around 221 AD. … During the 1600s, the paisley pattern began to appear on shawls.

The Enlarged Paisley Design Challenge

For this week’s challenge, the designers were asked to design one or two patterns using the brief of enlarged paisleys following trends for women’s wear Fall 2019 / 2020. This weeks response has again been fabulous we have seen a wonderful selection of enlarged paisley patterns, the designers have worked very hard and created some great textile patterns using their own creative hand.

The Winner – Les Muses & Moi

New Paisleys
Creative duo on stage and in the city, Corinne Prose and Stéphane Dehaumont, respectively Stylist and Artistic Director, combine their talent and imagination to merge marketing, fashion, and trend and give birth to new aspirational concepts. The Les Muses & Moi project is a free reinterpretation of classical works updated and reworked to lend themselves to collections of textile and decorative products.

The design was created by hand sketching the paisley motifs and others and then finished in photoshop. Les Muses & Moi has used a clever choice of colors from the brief and placed to create the all-over pattern, the mixed paisley motifs really stand out well on the dark brown background, featured here on women’s dresses, tops, yoga wear, pumps, and a mug, to show how versatile this pattern is we could easily see it on swimwear, childrenswear, dinnerware as well as stationary, curtains and bedding.

Designs For License

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History of the Paisley Pattern