Costume students design own fabrics

Students in the costume design program at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts have become some of the first in the country to create their own textile designs.

The school’s new wide- format digital printers allow students to use graphic design software to create new patterns, which can be applied to materials like silk and nylon.

The printers will allow the costume design students to recreate vintage designs that were found on fabrics from past eras, rather than scrounging for extant fabrics or creating poor duplicates using paper-format printers, program head Poe Durbin said in a release.

— Candice Baker