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TEXTILE ENGINEERING BUREAU — BISHU / ICHINOMIYA, JP · EST. 1967

( WEAVE DRAFT PREVIEW )

Weave, count, finish. Move the three numbers and the cloth changes pattern and lustre in place — the same procedure our drafting room runs every day.

The interactive preview needs JavaScript. Below is the default draft: 2/2 twill, Ne 30, washed.

Weave
Yarn count
Finish

SPEC 2/2 TWILL · NE 30 · WASHED — 96×72 /inch · GLOSS 0.18

Most mills sell hand feel.We ship the structure.

( STRUCTURE FIRST )

Hand feel is an opinion. A weave draft and a yarn count are facts you can reorder against. RASTER LOOM puts Bishu looms and engineering drawings on the same table and develops fabric with brands from the draft up. Every bolt ships with the spec sheet that reproduces it.

( FABRIC INDEX )

You don't pick a pattern.You engineer one.

Four fabrics from our development index. Each one carries its weave draft and spec sheet, and reorders under the same code — any time, exactly the same.

  1. RL-014

    Double-cloth graph check

    A double cloth with two different densities, face and back. The drafting grid becomes the pattern.

    Close-up of a double-woven fabric with a navy and ecru grid pattern
    WEAVE
    Double cloth
    COUNT
    Warp Ne 30 / weft Ne 20
    DENSITY
    128 × 76 /inch
    REFLECT
    8%

  2. RL-027

    Steel gabardine twill

    A steep-angle twill packed to sheet-metal density. Gabardine with a spine.

    Close-up of a dark navy gabardine with a steep diagonal twill line
    WEAVE
    3/1 twill
    COUNT
    Warp Ne 50/2 / weft Ne 40
    DENSITY
    152 × 88 /inch
    REFLECT
    22%

  3. RL-033

    Acid satin

    Long warp floats that pool light and throw it back. Dyed sulfur lime.

    Close-up of a high-gloss satin drape with a green-yellow cast
    WEAVE
    5-harness satin
    COUNT
    Warp & weft Ne 60
    DENSITY
    180 × 104 /inch
    REFLECT
    41%

  4. RL-041

    Mesh voile

    High-twist yarns set deliberately sparse. A plain weave engineered for transparency.

    Close-up of a sheer ecru fabric showing a grid of open windows against the light
    WEAVE
    Modified plain
    COUNT
    Warp & weft Ne 80/2 high-twist
    DENSITY
    92 × 64 /inch
    REFLECT
    5%

( INSPECTION ROOM )

Pass or fail is a number,not an impression.

DENSITY 128 × 76SKEW 0.4°DEFECT 0 / 50mGLOSS 0.18

Every bolt off the loom crosses the inspection table, where we measure density, skew, defects and reflectance — bolt by bolt. A bolt outside tolerance never ships, however good it looks. Cloth becomes product only when the numbers match the sheet.

( THE BUREAU )

RASTER LOOM is the drafting room of a Bishu mill founded in 1967, spun out as an engineering bureau. Our job is translation: taking the good cloth that happened by accident and turning it into a structure that repeats on demand. We don't take on fabric without a drawing — however beautiful.

Warp thread detail on an old shuttle loom running in a dark mill
Even so, cloth betrays the drawing now and then.
Cones of navy and ecru yarn on industrial mill shelving

No drawing,no reproduction.

What we engineer :

  • Weave structures & point drafts
  • Custom yarn & twist specs
  • Trial runs from one bolt (approx. 50m)
  • Production loom programs
  • Dye & finishing instructions
Dark navy woven fabric hanging in deep folds in low light
Structure makes the hand feel.Structure makes the hand feel.Structure makes the hand feel. warp128 . weft76 . 2/2 . Ne30 . α0.18 . t=0.42

We only ship clothwe can reproduce.