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I’m Sara Bleske, a Textile and Surface Pattern Designer with over 15 years of experience creating seamless patterns, wovens, and placed artwork for leading home, gift, and apparel brands. I excel at turning concepts into striking digital designs and CAD-ready artwork, collaborating closely with teams to elevate presentations and reduce costly sampling. I’m passionate about building cohesive collections that balance creativity, sustainability, and commercial appeal. I thrive on turning ideas into production-ready artwork and have partnered with Target, Walmart, Lowe’s, Joann Fabrics, Michaels, Meijer, Bon-Ton, and Aldi to bring vibrant, market-ready patterns to life.…I’m Sara Bleske, a Textile and Surface Pattern Designer with over 15 years of experience creating seamless patterns, wovens, and placed artwork for leading home, gift, and apparel brands. I excel at turning concepts into striking digital designs and CAD-ready artwork, collaborating closely with teams to elevate presentations and reduce costly sampling. I’m passionate about building cohesive collections that balance creativity, sustainability, and commercial appeal. I thrive on turning ideas into production-ready artwork and have partnered with Target, Walmart, Lowe’s, Joann Fabrics, Michaels, Meijer, Bon-Ton, and Aldi to bring vibrant, market-ready patterns to life.

Sara Bleske

Textile Designer, Designer, Illustrator, +5

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I’m Sara Bleske, a Textile and Surface Pattern Designer with over 15 years of experience creating seamless patterns, wovens, and placed artwork for leading home, gift, and apparel brands. I excel at turning concepts into striking digital designs and CAD-ready artwork, collaborating closely with teams to elevate presentations and reduce costly sampling. I’m passionate about building cohesive collections that balance creativity, sustainability, and commercial appeal. I thrive on turning ideas into production-ready artwork and have partnered with Target, Walmart, Lowe’s, Joann Fabrics, Michaels, Meijer, Bon-Ton, and Aldi to bring vibrant, market-ready patterns to life.…I’m Sara Bleske, a Textile and Surface Pattern Designer with over 15 years of experience creating seamless patterns, wovens, and placed artwork for leading home, gift, and apparel brands. I excel at turning concepts into striking digital designs and CAD-ready artwork, collaborating closely with teams to elevate presentations and reduce costly sampling. I’m passionate about building cohesive collections that balance creativity, sustainability, and commercial appeal. I thrive on turning ideas into production-ready artwork and have partnered with Target, Walmart, Lowe’s, Joann Fabrics, Michaels, Meijer, Bon-Ton, and Aldi to bring vibrant, market-ready patterns to life.

Available to hire

I’m Sara Bleske, a Textile and Surface Pattern Designer with over 15 years of experience creating seamless patterns, wovens, and placed artwork for leading home, gift, and apparel brands. I excel at turning concepts into striking digital designs and CAD-ready artwork, collaborating closely with teams to elevate presentations and reduce costly sampling.

I’m passionate about building cohesive collections that balance creativity, sustainability, and commercial appeal. I thrive on turning ideas into production-ready artwork and have partnered with Target, Walmart, Lowe’s, Joann Fabrics, Michaels, Meijer, Bon-Ton, and Aldi to bring vibrant, market-ready patterns to life.

Skills

Surface Pattern Design

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Experience Level

Surface Pattern Design

Expert

Adobe Illustrator

Expert

Adobe Photoshop

Expert

Language

Work Experience

Textile Designer at Modern Home, Gift and Apparel

January 1, 2024 - Present

Professional, unique and innovative textile and surface pattern design services for modern home, gift and apparel brands, including original motif design, seamless pattern repeats, colorways, and technical art specs for factories, plus digital presentation mockups.

Designer at IG Design Group Americas

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2024

Designed surface patterns, placed artwork and product mockups for craft ribbons, tabletop, wall decor and paper goods for major retailers such as Walmart, Joann Fabrics, Aldi, and Meijer. Promoted from contract designer to full-time in-house designer. Researched trends and forecasted themes and color palettes; created technical specifications for artwork production; transitioned textile design skills from fabrics to hardline home decor products.

Textile Designer at Weavetex Overseas

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018

Designed and developed original surface patterns, embroideries, wovens, and screen prints for Target and Lowe’s; traveled domestically to present and merchandise product samples; collaborated with cross-functional teams to showcase products. Presented forecasted trends, colors, and mood boards; analyzed market trends and pricing; maintained competitive and relevant presence in market.

Associate Designer, Women’s RTW Apparel, Textile Designs & Collections at TLB Holdings

January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2016

Designed original wovens, embroideries, screen prints, and sublimation artwork for Bon-Ton and Beall’s department stores; mastered product development cycles; promoted from Assistant Designer to Associate Designer. Developed digital hangtags, labels, and packaging mockups; conducted visual evaluations of lab-dip color submissions and provided revision instructions to factories; edited digital photos for social media.