A palette is a promise to a dyehouse
If a color cannot be hit twice in production, it is a mood board, not a standard.
Nadia Rahim
Textile designer · color and weave
Color is a system before it is a choice. I build palettes and woven structures that hold together across a whole range, not just on one good swatch.
Philadelphia, PATaking color and weave work on a seasonal cycle
- Color standards
- Woven structure
- Yarn dyeing
- Palette
- Weave
- Production
Selected work
Color
Seasonal color standards
Color standards and dip approvals for a home-textiles range, built so the dyehouse can repeat them season to season.
In use across two seasons
Work
Weave
Woven throw range
A blanket and throw range designed structure first, with the palette drawn from the same standard.
Range shipped, 2023
Work
Sampling
Handloom sampling
Studio handloom sampling and swatch cards used to prove a structure before it goes to the mill.
Proof
Independent since 2022
Color and weave for textile brands
5 years in a mill design room
Color standards and dip approvals
BFA Textile Design
Rhode Island School of Design, 2013
Story
I studied textiles at RISD and spent five years in a mill design room, where a palette is only real if the dyehouse can hit it twice. I moved to a home-textiles studio to own seasonal color and weave, then went independent in 2022. Most of the work now is building a color standard a brand can actually produce, and designing the woven range that lives inside it.
Perspective
Structure carries color
The same yarn reads differently in a twill and a plain weave. Settle the cloth before anyone argues about the hue.
Ways to work together
Seasonal color
Palette development, color standards, and dip approvals a mill can produce repeatably.
Woven design
Structure, sampling, and range design from handloom swatch through mill hand-off.
Questions
What does Nadia do?
She is an independent textile designer in Philadelphia working in color systems and woven structure for textile and home brands.
What is she known for?
Seasonal color standards a dyehouse can repeat, and woven ranges designed structure first from the same palette.
Is she available?
Yes. She takes color and weave work on a seasonal cycle.
Timeline
Independent Textile Designer
Color systems and woven range design.
Color & Weave Designer, Ashfield Home
Seasonal palette and woven range.
Design Room, Delaware Valley Mills
Color standards and dip approvals.
BFA Textile Design, Rhode Island School of Design
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