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  === CAD design and colour palettes ===
  Using specialist weaving software from Pointcarre, the illustrators' artwork first needs to be calibrated for the jacquard loom, taking into consideration the weave construction and warp and weft yarns. The warp yarns are 2/30NE Cotton in black and white end-on-end, and the weft yarns are 1/10NM Flax and Linen.
  The construction of the fabric are combinations of double-cloth and double-faced satins and sateen structures over 4 ends. The combinations of 3/1 and 1/3 satin structures, together with blending of warp and weft colours allow us to create different shades within a colour spectrum that bring depth and intricacy to the weave.
  The illustrators' artwork is converted into a weave file by first defining the colours within the 4 colour palettes. The weave uses 3 weft colours throughout the piece, and this is split into colour palette in the following way:
  * Colour palette 1: Natural Linen, Red and Blue Flax
  * Colour palette 2: Natural Linen, Red and Green Flax
  * Colour palette 3: Natural Linen, Green and Blue Flax
  * Colour palette 4: Natural Linen, Red and Yellow Flax
  During the weaving process Dash & Miller blend 3 colours together in the weft, so the illustrators clearly mark which sections of the design should be woven in each colour palette. They then manually swap between colour palette during the weaving process.
  The weave has 84 threads per cm in the weft, and to ensure the scale is kept true to the designs the artwork then needs to be stretched and rotated. The CAD is stretched by 140% to allow the weaving to come out at the same scale as the original illustrators artwork. The artwork is rotated by 90 degrees counter-clockwise so that the piece can be woven as a continuous length on the loom.
  Once the artwork has been scaled and the colours defined, Dash & Miller allocate weave structures to each colour in the CAD using Pointcarre Jacquard software. Each colour within the 4 colour palettes has its own weave structure. Dash & Miller also add in borders and selvedge to the weave to ensure clean edges to the design. Once the weave file has been generated, the computer is able to read the pattern to begin hand-weaving.