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Tattersall check pattern generator
Tattersall is the horse-blanket check: a pale ground with two different fine lines alternating across it. Two line colours is the whole trick — one line gives a windowpane, two give the cloth its country-shirt liveliness.
Make a tattersall check
Free to start · no credit card · no watermark
- Thread count
G22 A2 G22 B2 - 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 tattersall check
Twenty-two threads of ground, two of the first line, twenty-two more, two of the second. Plain weave keeps the lines crisp, and because the two lines are equal in weight neither reads as the main one.
Country shirting, waistcoats, horse rugs, pyjamas.
How to make one
- Open the Sett engine and pick tattersall 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.
Questions
Which two colours go on a tattersall?
Traditionally a warm and a cool — rust and navy, olive and wine — on cream or white. Both stay fine; the contrast is in the hue, not the width.
Is tattersall a plaid?
It is a check rather than a plaid: no mirrored pivots, just a repeating interval.
