Spoonflower

Spoonflower is an on-demand, digital printing company that prints custom fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap.[1][2]

It was founded in May 2008 by Stephen Fraser and Gart Davis, both formerly from Lulu.com. In 2013, Allison Polish joined Spoonflower's management team.

It was headquartered in Mebane, North Carolina, USA until 2010. Its current headquarters are in Durham, North Carolina, USA and Berlin, Neukölln, Germany.

In August 2012, the Spoonflower community numbered over 600,000 individuals who use their own fabric to make curtains, quilts, clothes, bags, furniture, dolls, pillows, framed artwork, costumes, banners and much, much more. The Spoonflower Marketplace currently offers the largest collection of independent fabric designers in the world.[3]

Spoonflower's digital textile printers are large-format inkjet printers specially modified to run fabric.[4] Unlike conventional textile manufacturing, digital printing entails very little waste of fabric, ink, water or electricity. Spoonflower prints using eco-friendly, water-based inks on natural and synthetic fiber textiles. No additional chemicals are used in the printing or preparation process.

This type of printing has the added advantages of showing greater design detail than screen printing, as well as allowing designers the ability to use as many colors as they like in their designs. All Spoonflower fabric gets printed in Durham, North Carolina and Berlin, Neukölln.

References

  1. ↑ Scelfo, Julie (January 7, 2009). "You Design It, They Print It". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Joyner, April (November 1, 2009). "Can a Do-It-Yourself Fabric Company Craft a Larger Following?". Inc.
  3. ↑ Craig, Elise (August 3, 2012). "DIY: How to Print Your Own Fabric and Wallpaper". Wired.
  4. ↑ Biggs, John (April 15, 2013). "TC Makers: A Return To The Textile Economy At Durham's Spoonflower". TechCrunch.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.