Plain & basket
Oxford
Paired warp ends give a soft, breathable chambray effect.
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1/1 plain
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Plain & basket
Calico
Unbleached greige cloth, ready for dyeing or print.
- Weave
- 1/1 plain · 1/1 Plain
- Fibre
- 100% cotton (blends on request)
- Typical uses
- Base cloth · printing · totes
- Supplied as
- Greige or finished · width and construction to order
- Looms
- Picanol rapier · Toyota air-jet
Finishes available
- Reactive dyed
- Pigment dyed
- Peach finish
- Water repellent
- Printed
- PU coating
How it's woven
This is the draft our weavers set on the loom. Each filled square on the point paper is a place where the warp thread lifts over the weft. The highlighted block is one full repeat of the 1/1 plain structure.
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