Woven Products

Our woven blankets, decorative woven pillows, woven wall tapestries, and woven tote bags are made on demand to create one-of-a-kind items that are both functional and luxurious.

Our system and manufacturing process enable 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, pillows, and tapestries. 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, bold text or crisp, 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 small detail elements in your artwork, as they may not reproduce well when woven, especially in blankets.

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. This method can yield approximately 195 color combinations, which is beneficial because 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)

When designing product collections that include our woven products, it is best to use the same design translation option across all coordinating pieces to achieve the best color matching.

There are three primary areas to consider when preparing your images for weaving.

1. Colors
2. Gradients
3. Resolution

Colors

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 colors in the original design are very close together, you may end up with large blocks of a single woven color where multiple colors appear in the original graphic.

Gradients

Resolution

When creating woven products, you'll work with woven stitches, not pixels, for your artwork design. These woven stitches do not directly translate into pixels, making it difficult to get a sense 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, small cracks in the original design, but those details do not appear on the finished woven blanket because they are too small for the weaving to reproduce compared to the pixels used when creating your design. Please keep this in mind as you create your woven product designs.

Important things to note:

• Our woven pillows, tapestries, and totes 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 for your artwork if you plan to offer multiple sizes.

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

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

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