Carpet Design Drawing Stages

Design Research: Before preparing the carpet design, a preliminary investigation of the design to be prepared must be carried out. The carpet designs used up to this day should be seen in order to make design research according to how a drawing will be made. The first step of the design preparation process is carried out by investigating the shapes and designs used in the carpet.

Motif Work: It is the process of selecting the appropriate motifs by carrying out the research process of the motifs that we will use in the original carpet design that we intend to prepare.

Pattern Design: The dimensions of the carpet we want are determined first. Then, by calculating the number of knots in the carpet, each knot will come to a square without forgetting the size of the checkered paper is prepared. The draft study is carried out by identifying the carpet pattern on the checkered paper and marking the squares they represent with a pencil. After the draft work is done, the drawings are drawn on the checkered paper.

Sketch Study: It is a free study of the placement process of the border, belly and other motifs of the carpet whose dimensions are determined.

Color Research: The pattern prepared on plain paper cannot be used in carpet weaving. Prepared designs should be colored in order to use them in carpet weaving. Since the coloration work is very technical and important, the person who will make the coloration should have sufficient accumulation in carpet art, good color knowledge, and an aesthetic view. It is recommended that people who have just begun to prepare designs or who do not have the skills described above should benefit from the previous carpets when coloring the patterns. Although the pattern designer is free to use color, there are a number of rules in carpet design coloring.

• If colors are used on a light background (such as white, yellow, buff, pink, light green, dark blue), the contour colors will be the contrast color of the background color. Fill colors should be light tones of contrasting colors.
• If colors are used on dark ground (such as red, navy blue, brown, dark green, dark blue), the contour colors will be the opposite colors of the background color. Fill colors should be dark tones of stroke colors.
• The color of the border should be weighted in the motifs. The color researcher must first have a good knowledge of color. Each color in the paint set to be used should be mixed in equal amounts with another color and a color table should be made by painting its own square. Thus, this table is consulted to find the most suitable color in design works.

Color determination: Border, belly and other motifs, where we will determine the colors to be used in the design of the carpet, specifying the side of the design.

Transferring the drafting work to checked paper: The most important process step of the carpet design that has been drafted is the transferring work to the checkered paper. The issue that needs to be emphasized here is to perform the operation knowing that each frame represents a node.

Coloring the design: The pencil sketch is done and the pattern determined on the checkered paper is painted with the appropriate colors that we will apply. The coloring process is done by selecting the appropriate coloring tools such as watercolor, felt-tip pen, gouache paint, which we mentioned earlier. Coloring from top to bottom, the inside of the frames are painted by filling each node from the colors of the nodes that they represent to be a square. After coloring the squares to the specified colors, the pattern work is completed by painting the entire color in accordance with the backdrop of the carpet.

Design card preparation: Prepared and colored patterns are divided into pieces according to the model is numbered. Divided parts are glued on plywood, cardboard, chipboard. Taking into consideration that the patterns will be used later, the patterns adhered to the plates are varnished by spraying or brush application with transparent varnish (glass varnish) so as not to impair the feature of the pattern in order to prevent any wear. Another method of protection is to cover the surface with a transparent coating material (nylon).