Help Centre

Loading
Loading

How to arrange a tartan design pattern

by CLAN Customer Service

Before you arrange your pattern, you need to to have at least two colours in your Colour palette bar. We recommend 3-5 colours for most tartans, and no more than 6 unless you're expert. 

We suggest you lay out the sequence first. Do this by dragging colours from your palette one at a time to the top of the working area.

Sequence

We suggest you lay out the sequence first. Do this by dragging colours from your working palette one at a time to the top of the working area. You can also drag into the midst of your sequence at any time

You can also reposition any band in the sequence by dragging its left hand side up or down.

Band widths

The numbers on each band represent the number of threads used in a typical woven fabric (called the‘threadcount’). It is the proportions of one band relative to another that really matters. A thread count of 8-24-16 is effectively the same pattern is one of 4-12-8, but is a larger sett (its actual size depending on the fabric type).

You can adjust the width of each band of colour in two ways. You can simply drag their margins (the hand icon) up or downwards. Or else tap its counter display and type the number you wish. Note that the count will always increment in steps of two, as tartans are almost always woven in even-numbered pairs of threads.

If a band is too narrow for its threadcount to appear, you should first resize it by touching it to expand or by using the magnifier icons.

Our system allows you to have two bands of an identical colour next to each other - the effect will be the same as a single band of their combined widths. However this is confusing so we recommend you delete one and expand the size of the other.

Fine tuning



Categories Arrange pattern
Tags tartan designer pattern