The Plaid Studio / What to create
What do you want to create today?
Pick a starting point. Each one opens in the same studio, with the same colours, the same seamless tiles and the same exports, so you can change your mind halfway and carry the design across.
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Sett
Woven plaid and tartan
Type a thread count or describe a cloth in a sentence, and it weaves. Start from a ready-made check — gingham, buffalo, houndstooth, shepherd’s, glen, Prince of Wales, windowpane, tattersall, madras or tartan — or read one off a photograph.
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Watercolour
The same cloth, painted
Your sett painted wet and loose on textured paper instead of woven in thread. Change the stripes and the painting follows.
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Pen
The same cloth, drawn by hand
Hatching lanes and a sketchy line laid on the real boundaries of your sett, in pencil or fine line. Still a seamless repeat.
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GeoPrint
Geometric repeats
A motif repeated over a seamless tile: polka dots, hexagons, zigzags, waves, damask, greek key, ikat and more. Say what you want in a few words, or pick a family.
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Floral
Scenes of drawn flowers
Tossed, ditsy or bouquet layouts of drawn motifs — spring, branch, foliage, botanical, sealife, celestial, paisley, animal and holiday — laid over a tile that repeats without a seam.
Then see it, size it, send it
- Put the design on a shirt, a dress or a cushion, at the size it will actually print.
- Export a seamless tile as PNG or PDF, or an A4 sheet with a centimetre ruler so you can check the real size on fabric.
- Choose the resolution the job needs — the DPI guide explains which.
- Selling prints? Selling textile patterns on Etsy covers the rest.