Find Printed Fabric Swatches

Online

The first step is to find good quality digital fabric swatches for your printed fabrics. We recommend visiting the fabric manufacturer's website - there are often downloadable swatches organized by fabric collection (a). But you can also download any image found online of your desired fabric to use as a digital fabric swatch (b).

a | Download a Collection of Fabric Swatches

In this example, we're going to download some Ruby Star fabrics from Moda Fabrics. The steps are similar for all downloads, so adapt these steps to your situation.

1. Go to the URL for the digital fabric swatch. In this example, I visited https://modafabrics.com/downloads and filtered fabric collections by Sarah Watts.

   

   Moda's fabric download page
2. Download JPG images onto your computer (click icon in the JPG Images column). In this example, I downloaded the Firefly collection.

   

   Download JPGs - Keep in mind each fabric manufacturer's website looks different
3. Move and organize the downloaded files on your computer.

   • Tip: If you're well organized, you can easily find and import your newly acquired digital fabric swatches.

b | Download Individual Fabric Images

Sometimes it's not possible to find fabric swatches on the manufacturer's website (this is especially true for older fabrics). The next best thing it so find an image of the fabric online.

1. Google the name of your desired fabric. It's helpful to search with as detailed of information as possible to find the correct fabric image. In this example, I searched for "Robert Kaufman Painterly Petals purple".

   

   Google search results
2. Click on the desired fabric image to go to the website. In this example, I need to also click on Visit to get to the online shop.

   
3. Right click on the desired fabric's image and select Open Image in New Tab.

   • Note: This will open only the fabric image in its own tab.

   

   Select Open Image in New Tab to isolate just the image
4. Right click on the image and select Save Image As.

   

   Select Save Image As to save to your computer
5. Your computer's file system will pop-up. Save the image on your computer (where you'll be able to find it).