I went to a Textile Design workshop yesterday at the San Jose Museum of Art, offered as part of the museum's current exhibition called 'Beauty. Tessellation and repetitive imagery was the theme of the workshop and is what is really the foundation of making a print design (textile or otherwise). After the design is finalized, the imagery can be printed via screen-printing or as a Photoshop-edited image sent to a printer for tiling and reproduction. Our schedule for the three-hour workshop included: Task 1: Look at graphic inspiration from the exhibit; Task 2: Draw a base image leaving some white space around the outer edges. My image was a living room with an antique sofa, Art Deco lamp, and modern painting and rug; Task 3: Cut the base image into quarters and re-arrange them (horizontally and vertically) in which you could add more drawn elements into the rearranged to minimize white space and to create secondary designs; and Task 4: ...