Venetian Gothic Exterior Court - Craft Fabric Art Panel

And sixteenth and final design of the Venetian Gothic quilt fabric collection, is the cortile - or inner courtyard - of an old Venetian palazzo. This is where the well would be if the family had enough land and money. It is also a parking spot for your gondola, in a pinch. Some palazzi had “boat houses” for their gondolas (gondole, pl. It.).

This design was intended to have wisteria vines with flowers. This was my second attempt at making wisteria flowers, and it certainly went better than my first attempt. Ultimately, I ditched it as the blooms turn gray when lit using the material rendering plugin in Photoshop. The blooms, since the face down, get shadow on them, which causes the gray. I have not concluded how I want to offset this effect. The blossoms also looked a little cartoony, and I felt that they didn’t fit in with the scene as a result. So I ditched them. They are memorialized in the silk wall covering design.

Exterior Court design with coordinating fabrics. The Venetian Gothic quilt fabric collections features designs inspired by 16th century Gothic architecture in Venice. Available at my Spoonflower shop on cotton quilting fabric at 18 inch repeat, and on wallpaper at 24 inch repeat, which is perfect for dollhouses at 1:12 scale. Also nice as a hero or art panel panel in a quilt. Please keep in mind that if you purchase on wallpaper, you need at least 2 ft of wallpaper. The “sample” size is only 1 ft of length and you will only get half the picture (vertically).

I hope these designs inspire the old world 16th century Gothic elegance of Venice. I hope to continue improving my skills and do some 18th century Rococo designs eventually. “A Forgotten Italian Villa” fabric collection and this collection, are close together both in time and geography, and they used the same color palette, so they can be mixed and matched.