Chapter four

The motif

The pattern the rug is made from. Ten kinds to choose from, a seed that redraws each one, colours, your own words, or a picture of your own.

Ten kindsIn the motif tab.

A kolam motif: looping ribbons woven around a grid of dots — **kolam**looping ribbons around dots

A kilim motif: a stepped, hooked diamond — **kilim**stepped lozenges with hooks

A medallion motif: rings of lobes with corner pieces — **medallion**a centre, corners, stars

An ikat motif: soft-edged repeating blocks — **ikat**resist-dyed, feathered edges

A check motif: crossing bands of colour — **check**a madras plaid

A temple motif: a stepped border around a dotted field — **temple**a sari: buttas, spires, pallu

A stripes motif: bands across the rug — **stripes**dhurrie bands

A field motif: flowing fields of colour — **field**marbled bands of colour

A words motif: WOVEN WIND woven into a blue rug on two lines — **words**whatever you type

An image motif: a picture of a sun over hills woven into a rug — **image**a picture of your own

A seed redraws it

Every motif is drawn from a seed, a short word. The same kind with the same seed always draws the same pattern, so a look you share comes back exactly.

Type any word as the seed in the motif tab, or press R (reroll) for a new one. Only the seed changes; everything else stays.

A picture of your ownDrop an image anywhere on Woven Wind.

Any picture can become the cloth.

Drop an image onto Woven Wind, or choose one in the motif tab. Woven Wind sorts its colours into a small set of yarns, twelve to begin with, and weaves the picture with them, pile and all.

Bold shapes and a few strong colours weave best. fit chooses whether the picture fills the rug or shows whole, and yarn colours at 0 keeps every colour. The picture stays in your browser’s storage on your computer until you clear this site’s data.

A flat-colour picture of an orange sun over red and purple hills with a river — **The picture**drawn for this guide

The same picture woven into a rug, seen from above — **The rug**from above

The picture rug seen close, with the pile visible — **Up close**the picture in pile

The motif tab

Motif
kind	The ten tiles above, each drawn live in your colours.
seed	Any word; press Enter to use it. reroll picks a new one.
motif size	Larger and fewer pattern elements, or smaller and more of them.	0.5–2
border	The border’s width, as a share of the rug’s width.	0–0.3
abrash	Dye-lot banding and a little sun-fade, as in hand-dyed yarn.	0–1

Palette
14 palettes	fable · vermilion · peacock · ash · honey · dusk · ember · serpent · forest · acid · madder · indigo · turmeric · ochre

Words
text	Type anything; each new line starts a new line on the rug. Typing here switches the motif to words.
font	Tamil · Devanagari · Impact · Futura Condensed · Avenir Condensed Heavy · Didot · Bodoni · Mono. These are Mac fonts; other computers use the nearest they have.

Image
choose image…	Pick a picture from your computer, or drop one on the rug.
fit	cover fills the rug and crops; contain shows the whole picture.	cover · contain
yarn colours	How many dyed yarns the picture is reduced to. 0 keeps every colour.	0–32

Rug
shape	A rectangle with fringe, or a round or oval rug without it.	rectangle · round
length	Length over width. Changing it knots the pile again and clears the hand’s marks.	1–3×
worn edges	Loosens the pile along the edges and nibbles the cloth’s edge.	0–1