The Plaid Studio / Pattern gallery
Pattern gallery
Sixteen renders, every one of them made by an engine in this studio — not a photograph, not a mockup, not a stock texture. Each says what it is and links to the page that makes one.
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Sett — woven tartan
Cloth from a thread count: every crossing drawn, the weave part of the pattern.
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Watercolour — the same cloth, painted
Wet colour on textured paper, with the pooling and the paper's tooth in it.
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Pen — the same cloth, drawn
Hatching on the real boundaries of the sett, in fineliner, fountain pen or pencil.
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GeoPrint — geometric repeat
A motif sampled over a torus, so the tile meets itself at every edge.
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Floral — botanical repeat
Drawn motifs laid as a scene in hero, support and filler layers.
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How these were made
The five engine renders came off the stage in the designer at 1000 to 1100 pixels square. The eleven checks were drawn by the same engine the front page runs, from the thread count printed under each one — the file you see is what the maths produced, downscaled for the web and nothing else.