KREFELD, FDR—‘Pattern Club’ has found a niche in the marketplace as one of the first independent pre-loom service bureaus producing virtual samples of jacquard and dobby upholstery fabrics and any other type of woven textile.

The system actually can replace the expensive process of weaving samples. Depending on the complexity of the design, Doubacis, General Manager and owner, says he can generate ten different designs in ten color ways each in just one day at a cost of about 680Euros a day. “It’s three times faster than conventional sample weaving and is less expensive to do it this way,” he says. 

“Our business has really progressed to the point where we have ten clients—including Schoepf Velvets and Gerster Trimmings-- in just the last three years,” says Antoine Doubacis, General Manager and founder (2008) who specializes in weaving and previously worked with EAT Software in Germany. PatternClub uses real data for the front and backend of jacquard weaving design using the customers’ designs or Pattern Club’s on-line library of copyrighted artwork for textiles. PatternClub also works on a commission for independent artists but that is a separate business from the virtual sampling. Antoine Doubacis

Pattern Club sells the artwork on a commission basis. Once the designs are produced as a virtual sample, the customer can go ahead to produce the finished product on a loom using the CD provided. The system is based on EAT software. Doubacis is a textile designer who works with small mills and converters who use his service instead of doing it in house. The service includes virtual sampling of the yarn through the fabric.

“I have a customer who converts in India and uses Pattern Club for all virtual sampling. The finished Design is then produced in India.