Textile Pattern Design for Home Interiors
A course by Tatiana Nedialkova, Artist, Illustrator, and Entrepreneur
Joined September 2020
Learn to create patterns and illustrations for household products that light up your home
Joined September 2020
A touch of color goes a long way when decorating. That’s exactly what Tatiana Nedialkova’s products bring to the home. By combining patterns, composition, and color, she has created a beautiful line of products that can light up any room.
Tatiana is an artist, illustrator, and entrepreneur whose focus is on textile design. In this course, she teaches you how to bring common household items to life by adding beautiful and intricate patterns. After learning to design and create different products, she teaches you how to market and sell them, too.
What will you learn in this online course?
12 lessons & 23 downloads
What's included in this course?
Start by getting to know Tatiana. She shares her artistic journey that led her to creating her own textile company, Softer and Wild. Tatiana details how her style combines traditional Russian, Scandinavian, and Polish patterns with modern influences.
Begin by creating your own mood board. Find what designs inspire you and save them to build your own collection of prints and products. Start out with simple shapes to create your initial design and play with colors, figures and repeating elements. Once you make a design you like, create a composition to form a complete pattern.
Learn about digital printing technology and making a template to perfectly fit your products. Throughout the course, you’ll make a variety of products. Start by making a simple kitchen towel with your template. Then add some more complexity to your design by making an oven glove. Take your design to a larger scale and apply your design to an apron.
Once your designs are finalized, it’s time to send your products to print. Learn Tatiana’s tips and tricks on how to choose a manufacturer and her process for styling and marketing her products. Learn all there is to know about choosing the correct background, their positioning, and photographing them.
- 97% positive reviews (72)
- 1,903 students
- 12 lessons (2h 13m)
- 23 additional resources (13 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish · Romanian · Indonesian
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Create beautiful designs with Adobe Illustrator and make a kitchen towel, an oven glove, and an apron.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Anyone who would like to learn about composition design and create printed textile products.
Requirements and materials
No prior experience is necessary, but you will need a computer with Adobe Illustrator.
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Tatiana Nedialkova
A course by Tatiana Nedialkova
Tatiana Nedialkova studied literature at the University of Sofia, despite her desire to study art. It was when she moved to the UK that her journey as an artist began. She studied Fine Art Contemporary Practices in Devon, and her world as an artist began to unravel. She describes these years as “the best years an artist can wish for.” She went on to study Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.
In 2016, she started her own company, Softer and Wild, where she combines her designs with textile products. The company has different collections that include kitchen towels, napkins, table runners, oven gloves, cushion covers, aprons, and more.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What Will We Do in This Course?
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U2
Ideas and Preparation
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Mood Board
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Starting Out With a Simple Shape
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Combining Shapes and Finalizing Our Pattern 1
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Combining Shapes and Finalizing Our Pattern 2
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U3
Working With Our Product Templates
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Making the Kitchen Towel
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Making the Oven Glove
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Making the Apron
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U4
Sending Our Products for Print and Sales Tips
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Sending Our Products for Print
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Useful Tips and Ideas to Market Your Products
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FP
Final project
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Textile Pattern Design for Home Interiors
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FAQs
Yes, this course is designed for beginners and guides you step by step through the fundamentals of textile and surface pattern design, including digital tools and traditional inspiration.
You’ll need basic drawing supplies, access to Adobe Illustrator or Affinity, internet access, and materials for mood boards. No advanced equipment is required.
You'll learn to create mood boards, design patterns inspired by folk art, use digital tools for textiles, develop kitchen towel, oven glove, and apron designs, and prepare files for digital printing.
The course teaches you to choose and manage color palettes using Pantone swatches, interior trends, and Pinterest references to create cohesive and visually striking textile designs.
No prior experience is needed. The course introduces Illustrator and Affinity tools from the basics, including shape creation, grouping, alignment, and pattern building.
Yes, the course covers digital printing workflows, preparing templates with bleed and hem, and exporting finished files for custom textile production.
You’ll create mood boards, original textile motifs, repeating patterns, and product templates for kitchen towels, oven gloves, and aprons, inspired by folklore and contemporary trends.
Me ha parecido un curso que va desde lo más sencillo hasta lo más complejo, mucha creatividad y arte a la hora de crear patrones!
It is a beautiful structured course for beginners in surface pattern design.
An ideal course for someone who is new to the world of pattern design. Great course, clear explanations!
j'ai beaucoup aimé l'approche d'adobe illustrator, c’était très bien expliqué pour moi qui suis novice dans ce logiciel.
É um bom curso principalmente para iniciantes. Fácil de seguir.