Paper till Doctoral Consortium, NORDES, Nordic Design Research, 2013

This paper concerns how textile design students deal with textile patterns and scale problems in relation to spatial contexts in the perspective of textile design. The study investigates how design students are working with pattern design in a full-scale Pattern Lab. The results should assist textile designers in their daily work as pattern designers. Both practical work and observations in the Pattern Lab as well as interviews were used as method. The result provided support of the fact that knowledge is needed about pattern design and scale issues. The contribution is to give the designer a better understanding of scale and size in designing textile patterns and to find functions and characteristics among different patterns in spatial contexts.