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The source material for Wijnants’s prints may be a painting, drawing, photograph, or even a scan of another fabric, but everything needs to be processed digitally before it reaches the producer, and often the Photoshop work can be extensive. This collections patterns were created by scanning in some of the knits and wools and remixing them, or overlaying them with animal skins and other textures. “It’s a mix of a lot of things,” he says. “At the end of the day I don’t even remember where it came from because we work with the print so much and so hard that it keeps changing and changing. It’s also a nightmare because the designs really react differently on fabric than on the screen or on paper. You may go through a lot of tests. But it’s your own fabric, so it’s enjoyable to do this type of testing.”