Design a colorway.
Our plaid is a list of numbers, and the colors are a separate choice. Keep the numbers, swap the yarns, and you have a different shirt.
- How long
- About ten minutes.
- You need
- Nothing but this page · Colored pencils, if you want to draw yours
- Messy
- No.
Step 1. Start with Pine.
The swatch below opens on Pine: a pine green ground, cream windowpanes, a charcoal bar and one fine rust line. These are the four yarns in our tech pack, and no others.
Step 2. Press Show Oat.
Pine and Cream trade places, and the charcoal and rust stay where they were. Look at the stripes. Not one of them moved, and it is a different shirt.
Step 3. Now make your own.
Pick a yarn for any job. The yarn that had the job goes to whoever was using the yarn you picked, so all four always stay at work. Four yarns in four jobs can be arranged 4 times 3 times 2 times 1 ways, which is 24. Two of those are ours.
Try to find one where the windowpane disappears, and one where the rust line is the loudest thing on the shirt.
Step 4. Draw your favorite.
Take the plaid sheet from Draw our plaid and color it in with your arrangement instead of ours. A mill would call that a strike-off request.
Swap the yarns.
This is Pine, the colorway in our first run.
The colors on this page are our brand reference, not a dye standard. The mill proposes the nearest real dye, and the first cloth may look a little different. Neither colorway has been woven yet.
That is the end of this one
The word for what you just did is colorway.
A colorway is one set of colors for a pattern that already exists. The pattern stays and the yarns change. Our flannel has two on paper: Pine, in the first run, and Oat, which is Pine and Cream traded thread for thread. Oat is not a second design. It is the same sett on a second warp.
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