A formal grammar for Scottish tartan, run by machine. Six weave structures, forty-eight period-correct dye colors, and a mutation engine that breeds new plaid from old — walking the line between the generated and the authentic.
Browse, mutate, and breed tartans in real time. A mobile-first plaid studio — every sett rendered live in the browser.
Open the explorer →The scholarship behind the system: weave structures, thread-count notation, the historical dye palette, and the mutation grammar — as a specimen catalog.
Read the field notes →