Textile graphics applied to textile printing

Abstract

Textile Graphics is a computer-aided technique for developing a textile design and textile patterning mechanism information from an artist's drawing. The computer is operated by a textile designer-technician who understands the particular textile machinery for which he is adapting the original drawing. The designer-technician inputs the original drawing by a combination of graphical input devices; tracing on an on-line digitizing tablet, drawing free-hand with light-pen on the screen of the IBM 2250 and manipulating the design with function keys.