Flowers, fruits, and birds have long been a source of inspiration for textile artists and designers. From Indian “chintz” prints to William Morris’s Arts & Crafts designs to the 1960s Finish design house Marimekko, flowers have been cultivated on the body and in interiors for centuries for their graphic beauty and symbolic meanings. Research will include the Victorian language of flowers, Chinese flower symbolism, and other cultural meanings. Students consider the botanical properties and symbolic meanings of specific plants, draw botanical renditions on site, design engineered print, draft repeat patterns, and silk-screen lengths of fabric through the use of natural dyes. This course is open to students in ALL majors without prerequisites, but may be of special interest to students in Fashion, Interior Design, Illustration, and Painting/Drawing.

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