9: Texture and Fabric Ideas by Allison Kucharski

kucharskar — 2025-03-28 18:10:03 UTC

Creating Your Underwater-Inspired Texture Board

Add posts with images of fabrics or textures that remind you of underwater elements
For each post:
- Add an image of your chosen fabric/texture
- Name your fabric/texture in the subject line
- Describe in the body how it connects to the underwater theme
- Include the specific underwater element that inspired your choice

Ideas to consider:

Shimmery materials like fish scales
Flowing fabrics like seaweed
Textured materials like coral
Mesh-like patterns like fishing nets
Iridescent fabrics like mother of pearl

lace

222365_2 — 2025-10-14 14:41:11 UTC

It shows the textures of the bottom of the oceans, such as sand, rocks, and other materials.

Crystallized fabric

2145702 — 2025-10-14 14:47:18 UTC

Connects to the theme by expressing water-like elements, such as crystals representing pearls, and light grey to represent water

ruffles

2181588 — 2025-10-14 14:47:52 UTC

how the ruffles can represent water movement

water waves

2249564 — 2025-10-14 14:49:27 UTC

different types of blue and white

sea shells

215689 — 2025-10-14 18:57:55 UTC

they wash just on the shore randomly so making an outfit with seashells would be neat

mermaid shells

330177_2 — 2025-10-17 14:59:31 UTC

Usually depicts shells as part of a mermaids world either adoring their hair used as jewelry or as mysterious underwater treasures.

Contrasting color and patterns

2235693 — 2026-03-09 13:19:35 UTC

Vintage Jean Paul Gaultier made with mesh and a dropped shoulder.
It has blue for water and orange tones to represent coral, also starfish prints. Also, the neckline reminds me of a fishtail.

216137_7 — 2026-03-09 13:21:06 UTC

I want to create a dress that is flowy to represent the movement of the water and I also want to add things that you would find in water. I would use an iridescent holographic fabric to get that reflective water look.

Thin silk fabric

2233218 — 2026-03-09 13:23:27 UTC

leah sava jeffries wore this water inspired dress to the season 2 of Percy Jackson premiere

Ruffles, Organza fabric - Althea T

2180801 — 2026-03-09 13:23:35 UTC

I think that a blue organza fabric can really help create kind of a flowy aesthetic similar to water waves, especially when put in a ruffle shape. I also think that different knits can be woven somewhere into the dress as well to look like a coral reef as well

Latex

2026-03-09 13:30:38 UTC

it reminds me of octopus skin, like rubbery and sticky. I'm inspired my octopi for this weeks sketch

ruffled mesh, silk

2026-03-09 15:56:21 UTC

betta fish have very flowey fins and tails and they are also very thin and almost see through replicating how water is and I would like to make a dress that show case this