Ten prints

The ladder sorts what we make by how warm it sleeps. This sorts it by what is printed on it, which is the thing most people look at first. Any pattern we cut four or more pieces in gets a page, plain color included — no pattern is an answer too.

• Solid85 piecesNo pattern at all: one color from collar to hem. Scrub sets, plain plush robes and thermal tops, the pieces meant to disappear under something else.
• Tie Dye40 piecesDip and spiral dyeing, so no two pieces come out identical. The pattern is in the cloth rather than screened onto it.
• Buffalo Plaid21 piecesThe wide two-color check, red on black most often. We cut it in plush and fleece as well as in cotton, so the same check turns up at both ends of the ladder.
• Christmas20 piecesTrees, candy canes, snowflakes, reindeer and a Santa skull. Cut for one month of the year and worn for three.
• Animal17 piecesLeopard, panda and penguin repeat across cuts; owl, cow, pig, kangaroo, kitty, gator, teddy bear, monkey and raccoon turn up once each. The hoods have ears on them; the leopard also comes as a robe, for the print without the ears.
• Faith16 piecesScripture and one-line declarations, screen printed across the chest rather than embroidered. All of it is cotton.
• Heart5 piecesHearts, scattered or printed as a chest graphic. Much of this is the same I Heart Sleep line on a cotton nightgown.
• Plaid5 piecesThe catch-all for checks that are not buffalo: houndstooth, gingham, and plain plaid. Finer grids, and more colors in them.
• Floral4 piecesSprigged and scattered flowers, small and evenly spaced rather than placed as one big bloom.
• Star4 piecesStars scattered over a plain ground. Small enough to read as texture from across the room rather than as a print.

69 pieces out of 286 carry a one-off pattern, or none the specification names, so they sit on a shelf but not on a swatch. All nine shelves hold every piece we make.