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Woven Blankets and Pillows

Kevin Pham
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Our woven blankets and throw pillows are made on demand to create a one-of-a-kind item that is both functional and luxurious.

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Woven Blankets 

(100% Cotton)

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Woven Pillows
(Cotton & Polyester blend) 		Product Information

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Our system and manufacturing process enables you to weave rather than print your graphic designs into these high-quality, cozy products. We created this guide to help you prepare your design for weaving on our woven blankets and pillows. Follow the tips, tricks, and recommendations below to ensure your custom-woven products are as accurate as possible to your original artwork.

Design Best Practices:

  • Do use high-contrasting bold primary colors. Learn more about which colors work best.
  • Do use large and bold text or crisp and large elements.  Learn more about resolution and how to prepare your design previews. 
  • Do choose the most adequate image translation options – graphic design or photo content to ensure the best color result.
  • Do place a sample order to double-check the printed output against your design.
  • DON’T use neon or fluorescent colors as these colors don’t translate well.
  • DON’T use large gradient color fields as background. 
  • DON’T use smaller detail elements in your artwork as these may not be reproduced well when woven, especially with blankets.

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The process of creating custom woven products uses solid-colored yarn in combination with black and white yarn to achieve the desired colors for your product. We can achieve approximately 195 possible color combinations using this method, which is beneficial as it allows you to work with many different colors when creating your product. We recommend placing a sample order if you would like to double-check the woven color output for your designs.

We offer two options for your design translation:

  • Photo option (If the design is based on a photograph or the intended outcome is meant to look like a photo)
  • Graphics option (if the design is not based on a photograph)

To achieve the best color matching when designing product collections that include our woven products it is best to utilize the same design translation option on all coordinating pieces within a collection.

There are three primary areas that you should consider when preparing your images for weaving.

  1. Colors
  2. Gradients
  3. Resolution

Colors

By combining the primary colors of Red, Blue, Green, Gold, White, and Black yarns in the weaving process, we can produce woven results with a wide range of colors. You can review the Gooten color palette below. There are no vibrant, hot, neon, or intense yellow colors out of the possible 195 color combinations. The system will choose the closest color for translation.  

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In the below example, you run into the same issue: the weaving process cannot match the hot and vibrant colors. So during the process, it automatically selects the closest color on the palette. Also, since some of the colors in the original design are very close together, you may run into large blocks of a single woven color where multiple colors exist in the original graphic.

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Gradients

Gradients can be challenging when creating woven products depending on the colors used and the gradient's variation. Because we’re working with a limited color combination palette, your finished product will contain the nearest color match according to your submitted image.
 
The images below show a subtle color change from dark to light purple because the color combination palette does not include bright colors. You can see the difference in the finished woven product, which contains the nearest color value, and less defined color changes in the graphic.

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Resolution

When creating woven products, you'll be working with woven stitches and not pixels when creating your artwork design. These woven stitches do not directly translate to pixels, making it difficult to get an idea of your finished product.

To accomplish the effect of a woven preview, we encourage you to convert your image to the full product size (for example 50”x 60”), reduce the saturation of the reds and greens on your product preview image and decrease the artwork's resolution to 12 dpi before manipulating the artwork. This will give you a good idea of your finished product and help set expectations for your customers. 

The example below shows detailed and small cracks in the original design, but those details do not show up on the finished woven blanket since the details are too small for the weaving to produce compared to the pixels when creating your design. Please keep this in mind as you create your designs for woven products.

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Important things to note:

  • Our woven pillows can capture a high level of detail due to the fine yarn size and tight tapestry weave 
  • Our woven blankets can capture a moderate level of detail due to the thicker yarn size and looser weave

Creating artwork in Photoshop or another image editing software

1. Set up your print area according to the size of the blanket you’d like to create. Use the most prominent print area to create your artwork if you plan on offering multiple sizes.

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2. Set up your guidelines in Photoshop 2 inches from the border. 

You do this so that any necessary design elements, like text, are inside those guidelines. This area is where the threads of the woven blanket are frayed around the edges.

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3. Save your artwork as an RGB, JPG file at max file size.

 

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