David Hilbert, plumbing contractor

Hilbert

Back when I sewed regularly, I seldom used printed fabrics. Partly it was because I mostly made outfits for the SCA, where prints were rarely appropriate, but mainly because most of the designs available then were dull and uninteresting.

That is no longer the case. I recently visited Spoonflower.com and found all kinds of interesting things there, such as the plumbing nightmare above, based on the space-filling Hilbert curve.

Other designs include:

Penrose tiles

Penrose tilings

Escher

Escherian tilings

Chocolate

Chemical diagrams

Soot sprites

Miyazakian creatures

Jabberwock and friends

Looking-glass creatures

Hobbit

Tolkien

Lithops

Lithops

Tres Riches Heures

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

You can also upload your own designs.

There is a catch: none of this is cheap. The least expensive fabric option is $17.50/yard. Should I ever get my sewing machine fixed, Spoonflower fabric would be for occasional special projects only.

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