Thread count → cloth
Plaid and tartan, written the way the mill writes it.
Set out a thread count, choose a weave, and watch the cloth build itself — with the interlacement drawn thread by thread and a repeat that genuinely tiles. Free, in the browser, nothing uploaded.
No account. No upload. The design travels in the link.
The one thing other generators get wrong
The seamless tile is not the sett.
A sett is the run of threads you write down. The seamless tile is the smallest block that can be laid edge to edge without the weave breaking — and the two are only the same number by accident.
Tile a 2/2 twill at the sett length and the diagonal jumps at every seam. It is the kind of fault that survives a screen and shows up on the cloth.
The Plaid Designer works this out for you, shows the tile alongside the sett, and offers the two extra threads that collapse it back to one repeat.
What the tool does
- Thread count in, cloth out
- Type
K4 B24 K2 W6the way the trade writes it. The stripe list, the mirror axes and the cloth all read from the same sett — edit any of them and the others follow. - Real weave structure
- Plain, 2/2, 3/1 and 2/1 twill, basket and herringbone, in S or Z. The interlacement is drawn thread by thread, so a twill diagonal runs the way it would on a loom.
- Cloth, not a flat fill
- Pick a worsted, a woollen, a tweed, a linen or a silk and the yarn changes with it: fibre length decides how much it sheds and how it shines, twist sets the grooves, and slub and crimp keep the ends from running ruler-straight.
- Checks and stripes
- A check mirrors the sett onto the weft. A stripe runs one colour across it, so the sett reads down the warp alone — half the cloth in the world is set that way.
- Honest repeats
- The seamless tile is computed from the sett and the weave repeat, not guessed. When they disagree the tool says so and offers to pad the sett.
- Files a mill can use
- PNG at any scale, SVG as a real vector repeat, and a spec sheet PDF carrying the thread count, the tile size and the finished cloth dimensions at your chosen density.
- Colour you can specify
- Every colour is matched against our own 48-shade textile library with CIEDE2000 and reported with its ΔE, so you know whether a match is a match or a compromise.
- Nothing leaves your browser
- The design lives in the URL. Share a link and you have shared the sett itself — there is no upload, no account and no file sitting on our disk.
When a plaid is not the whole job
The rest of the studio.
This tool weaves plaid, free, with no account and no export limit. When the work needs more than that — florals and geometrics, 300 DPI and A4 mill sheets, a whole colourway range batched at once, or simply a design that outlives the browser tab — that is what The Plaid Studio is for.
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