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Buffalo check pattern generator

Buffalo check is gingham's big brother: the same even two-colour check, scaled up until each square is a hand's width. Red and black is the lumberjack cloth everyone knows, but the structure is colour-blind — navy and cream, olive and black, anything with enough contrast to hold at that size.

Make a buffalo check Free to start · no credit card · no watermark

Buffalo check woven thread by thread in plain weave, drawn by the Sett engine — Drawn by the engine from the thread count below — not a photograph, and not a drawing of cloth.

Thread countG40 F40
WeavePlain weave
SymmetryRepeating straight round
SeamlessYes — the tile repeats by construction, in every engine
ExportPNG and SVG, A4 spec sheet with a centimetre ruler, WIF weaving draft

What makes it buffalo check

Forty threads of each colour, plain weave. The size is what makes it: at this scale the crossing square is large enough to read as its own colour, which is why a buffalo check looks like three colours and is woven from two.

Shirting, blankets, throws, outerwear linings, and any print that wants to read from across a room.

How to make one

Open the Sett engine and pick buffalo check from the ready-made checks in the panel. The studio writes its thread count into the cloth for you.
Put your colours on it. Choose a palette or paste your own hex codes; the ground, the field and the lines take their colours in that order.
Set the scale in threads. The bands are threads, not pixels, so the check keeps its proportions when you change the yarn count or the repeat width.
Export what the job needs. A seamless PNG for print-on-demand, an SVG for vector work, an A4 sheet with a ruler for a mill, or a WIF draft for a loom.

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