The Paisley Challenge
The Paisley Folkloric challenge week four. The surface pattern marketplace now sends out a weekly design challenge to all creative designers and illustrators that have joined their marketplace. By offering a weekly design challenge, it is a great way to really test their skills and creativity. By accepting the challenge they then have to create one or two designs in their hand, giving their own interpretation.
Folkloric Paisley Prints
This week they decided the challenge from the recent New York Fashion Week show, exhibiting some amazing Paisley patterns for women’s wear 2020 from the top fashion designers.
The Paisley Pattern
The popular twisted teardrop pattern has a Persian (Iranian) origin but was replicated from silk and wool Kashmir shawls which were first adopted and used on handlooms, and after 1820 on Jacquard looms. Then from around 1800 to 1850, the main weavers from the town which was also named Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland, changed its name to the paisley and became the main producers of Paisley shawls.
Paisley Print and Patterns
This weeks challenge the designers were asked to design one or two patterns using the brief of Folkloric Paisleys for women’s apparel 2020. This week’s response has again been wonderful, and the designers have really thought out of the box and are having producing some exceptional quality work. Our aim for this weekly challenge was to create a brief that was both challenging and fun at the same time.
The Winner
The winner is Poonkuzzhali and is known to her friends and family as PKP, She is a surface pattern, fashion and textile designer from Bangalore, India. After PKP graduated from the European Institute of Design in Milan, she started working for various fashion companies and designer labels. She continues to pursue her passion for art and design under the name PKP.
Textile Prints
She now creates exclusive surface pattern designs for fashion and home decor. PKP likes to keep up to date with fashion and international runway trends. As she is from a country with a wonderful history and culture, PKP likes to take inspiration from it and include in many of her designs.
PKP has created a really fabulous design, utilising all the colours given in the brief, and produced a great detailed pattern suitable for women’s or children’s wear 2020 Season. The design shows delicate hand drawn elements of the paisley pattern, and PKP has given an overall 70’s feel to the vibe, with the multitude of colours she has created a wonderful design, which is really pleasing to the eye. The design looks just as good on a top or dress, or even as a tee shirt or swimsuit. To view more of PKP’s designs for license. Please click Here – pkp
Join Our Challenge
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The Origin of the Paisley Pattern
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