The Plaid Studio / What to create / Windowpane check
Windowpane check pattern generator
A windowpane is the most restrained check there is: a wide open ground and one fine line, crossed both ways, so the cloth reads as squares drawn on a plain colour. Everything depends on the interval — too tight and it is a graph, too wide and it is a plain cloth with an accident in it.
- Thread count
G72 A4 - 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 windowpane check
Seventy-two threads of ground to four of line. The line is narrow enough to stay a line at any size, and the ground is wide enough that the eye takes it as the cloth rather than as a band.
Shirting, suiting, furnishing. It is the check to reach for when a plaid would be too loud.
How to make one
- Open the Sett engine and pick windowpane 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
How far apart should windowpane lines be?
Far enough that the square reads as open cloth: around 3 to 8 cm on shirting, wider on furnishing. The studio sets it in threads, so the interval holds when you change the yarn.
What is the difference between a windowpane and a tattersall?
A windowpane has one line colour. A tattersall alternates two over the same ground.
