Plaid Maker: Tartan Patterns

Plaid Maker is a pattern studio for designers who work with checks and tartans. Build a plaid the way it is woven: stack stripes as layers, set each one's offset, width, color and opacity, mirror it around the center, and choose horizontal, vertical or both. Switch between a flat view and a woven fabric view with smooth 2/2 twill. Features • Pattern families: Checks, Tartan, Madras, Houndstooth & Glen, and Grid, with ready presets, or start from a blank canvas • Layers panel with blend modes and per-stripe weave • Five color palettes and a shuffle button for quick ideas • Rotate the whole pattern 45° • Undo and redo • Every export is seamless: the image is always a whole number of repeats • Export as PNG (1080, 2048, 4096 px), a single tile, or a scalable SVG • Save your designs and come back to them Made for textile, print-on-demand, packaging and fashion designers who need a clean, repeatable plaid fast. What is tartan? Tartan is a pattern of crossing horizontal and vertical bands in several colors, originally woven in wool in Scotland. The bands repeat in a fixed sequence called the "sett", and the same sequence is used in both directions: the warp (vertical threads) and the weft (horizontal threads). Where two bands cross, their colors mix and form new shades, which gives tartan its depth. Traditional tartan is woven in a 2/2 twill, which creates the fine diagonal lines you see in real cloth. Tartan, plaid and check: what's the difference? • Tartan: the Scottish pattern with a defined sett, often tied to a clan or region. • Plaid: in Scotland, a plaid was originally a large piece of tartan cloth worn over the shoulder. In North America the word now means any tartan-like crossing pattern. • Madras: a lightweight cotton plaid named after the city of Madras (now Chennai) in India, known for bright summer colors. • Gingham: an even check, usually white with one color, with equal stripes in both directions. • Buffalo check: large blocks of two colors, classically red and black. Plaid Maker follows these rules: a sett that repeats in both directions, mixed colors at the crossings, and a real twill weave view.