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A tartan sett in 2/2 twill

A tartan sett in 2/2 twill
A tartan sett in 2/2 twill. A pivoted sett of 70 threads used in both systems, which is what makes a tartan a tartan rather than a check. On the left, the cloth at block scale: the squares on the diagonal have one colour in both systems and the rest are mixtures. On the right, one mixture rectangle at thread scale, where the weave decides. In 2/2 twill the reflection survives on 50.0 per cent of a mixture's intersections, against a ceiling of 75 per cent that no weave can reach. The three tints stand for the three colours of the sett and carry no other meaning here.

A pivoted sett of 70 threads used in both systems, which is what makes a tartan a tartan rather than a check. On the left, the cloth at block scale: the squares on the diagonal have one colour in both systems and the rest are mixtures. On the right, one mixture rectangle at thread scale, where the weave decides. In 2/2 twill the reflection survives on 50.0 per cent of a mixture's intersections, against a ceiling of 75 per cent that no weave can reach. The three tints stand for the three colours of the sett and carry no other meaning here.

1 essay calls tartan. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the weave its essay argues about.

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