Kaleidoscope 2020

By creating different textures, the fabric gives the illusion of many different colors and shades depending on the yarns used and their placements.

In this development I found it was best to use a shade gradient of colors from light, medium-light, medium-dark and dark. This could be executed with tonally similar yarns or different tones. This created the greatest range and variance in color + texture options.

Kaleidoscope
Texture blanket, consisting of 30/1 light heather grey + 1/150 teal poly and 20/1 light heather blue + 20/1 dark heather blue. Each square has a unique visual as a result of different combinations of yarn and texture design.
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Knit file of texture blanket.
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A rendering demonstrating the design to a potential customer.
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
Mattress Grove, a local brand purchased the design with some slight adjustments to coloration, toning down the vibrant teal and punching up the blues. Here is their fully fabricated bed.
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The textures remain the same as original, but the bright teal yarn is substituted for a rich blue yarn.
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This and the following are alternate color explorations of the Kaleidoscope technique as a result of further iteration on the texture blanket in more colorways.
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Kaleidoscope
A more delicate application of the Kaleidoscope technique on a Marimekko inspired knit design.
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Close up of Kaleidoscope knit file.