How to customize a scarf from a photo
Have you thought about creating your personalized photo scarf ? Family photos, friends, pets, vacation memories... An excellent way to always keep close those beings and memories dear to us: print them on a beautiful scarf!
Design an artistic scarf or silk square without knowing how to dye or paint on silk? It's possible! You have photos that inspire you, turn them into beautiful scarves!
Custom scarves from your high-quality photos
At Fibra Creativa, we make from your photos beautiful silk scarves that are unique and original. Handmade craftsmanship, the quality of a branded scarf, and affordable prices!
High-definition inkjet digital printing allows us to print photos and photographic collages on silk, the fabric of choice for scarves, with great detail finesse and superb rendering of color gradients. After printing, the silk fabric is cut then the edges are hemmed, by a machine hem, or even better, a hand-rolled hem.
Your photo scarf will make a magnificent personalized gift for birthdays, weddings, wedding anniversaries, Mother's Day, Christmas, and many other occasions!
Here are some ideas to adapt your photos and create a scarf with a personalized design to wear or proudly offer.
Personalized scarf with large photo covering the entire surface
Some photos simply have more impact when printed in large format, provided that the photo resolution is sufficient. Indeed, a low-resolution photo would give a blurry or even pixelated impression. The larger the scarf, the more pixels are needed to obtain a beautiful print. For example, for a 90×90 cm square, you need about 7000 x 7000 pixels.
It is important to take into account the scale of the subject. A beautiful varied landscape will generally make a magnificent scarf. But a close-up portrait may appear huge on a large scarf.
If the photo resolution is not sufficient, or the scale is not suitable, assembling the photo in mosaic is a good solution!
Personalized photo scarf - mosaic print
To create the scarf below, a maxi square of 120×120 cm in silk muslin, I chose a portrait of my best furry companion, my black labrador. His head would have looked really huge enlarged to this scale, and the photo, although of good resolution, would have been slightly blurry.
The multiplication of the photo in mosaic solves these problems. After adding a red frame for a contrasting color note and the dog's name, here is the finished design.
This technique allows you to obtain very beautiful scarves from medium resolution photos. Snapshots taken with a pocket camera, selfies taken with a mobile phone, old family photos taken out of their frame and scanned… all your memories can be turned into a high-end silk scarf!
Other photo montage options to create a beautiful personalized scarf
Besides the resolution and scale of the photos, the proportions can cause problems. Indeed, while photos are most often rectangular (4:3 ratio or close), scarves are square or rectangular... very elongated. So most often you have to crop the photo you want to reproduce on the scarf. Sometimes it's very simple, and sometimes very complicated, depending on the photo and the scarf dimensions.
There are various ways to work around this problem while creating an artistic scarf. For example, this Okavango stole-bolero from our Africa collection is a collage of several photos of kingfishers perched on papyrus plants.
Manipulate your photos to create your unique scarf
Manipulating images using photo editing software opens the door to infinite possibilities. From a photo you like, it is possible to create scarves of very different styles. For example, let's take a photo of a cherry tree in bloom, taken in my garden in spring a few years ago. (Unfortunately, the tree has since succumbed to drought.)
By duplicating the image along two axes of symmetry, you get a floral square with a realistic and regular design. Add a frame, and here is a true blue and white floral square.
Using photo editing software, you can play with the many available effects and thus create from photos a design of a truly unique scarf, which will make an ideal gift for a special occasion, or simply to treat yourself!
How to order your personalized scarf with photo
It's very simple. You will find in the Personalized Scarves section of our online store a variety of models, sizes, and finishes.
Important note: we respect your copyright, and that of the photographers who publish their photos online. This means that we never use your photos to print anything other than your orders. And that we only print photos for which you have the rights.