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Less admin, more warping.

Plan commissions and licenses around time at the loom. Plya keeps a textile studio's commissions, licenses and gallery sales in one place, each with its dates and its invoices. The weeks on the loom stay for weaving.

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Open calls, fairs and grants for textiles

A commission is a project: each stage from the sketch to the loom is a task with a date, and the deposit and the balance are two invoices on it.

The admin that comes with commissions and licenses

A commission is measured in weeks on the loom, and warping takes long enough that pieces are planned a warp at a time. The admin around it keeps other clocks: a client writing in week nine, a license ending while you sample, a gallery paying in January, an application due seven months before the show.

  • The commission that takes a season

    A tapestry can take a month on the loom for every square foot. Somewhere in week nine the client asks how it's going, and the answer is in a notebook by the loom and a deposit email from February.

  • The license you can't find the terms of

    What you charged for that pattern, the category, the territory and the term end are in a PDF from two years ago. The license ended months back, and so did the chance to pitch the design again.

  • The gallery that pays in January for November

    The holiday shop sells your runners through December and pays in the new year. The gallery's 30 days start when the buyer pays them. Which checks have landed is a question for the bank app.

  • The show application due seven months out

    The Smithsonian Craft Show closes applications on September 16 for April, with the application fee up front. The jury images are on your phone and the deadline was in a guild newsletter.

At the loom

Plan the weeks on the loom

A commission's steps, from warping to finishing, each get a date planned back from the day it ships. Today shows what's due, and the project shows how far the piece has come.

Hands passing a shuttle through the warp on a floor loom

Track every license and when it ends

A license is a project in Plya. The licensee is the organization in Network, the category and territory are in its notes, the term end is the project's due date, and the royalty or flat-fee invoice sits on it. A task dated before the term ends, Pitch again or renew, comes up in Upcoming while there's still time to act on it.

How projects work

See when each gallery and shop will pay

A holiday shop's November sales are an invoice due in January. A gallery sale is one on a 30-day term, and a guild workshop is one at your day rate. Sorted by due date, the list reads like the next few months. A sent invoice turns Overdue on its day, online payments land in your own Stripe account, and the gallery's check you mark paid by hand.

How invoices work

Tools for the full weaver's year

Trade fairs, show deadlines, a conference that comes every other year and the holiday shops each keep their own date. Each one has a place in Plya.

  1. January to February

    Heimtextil and Baltimore

    Licensees in Frankfurt in January, shop owners at American Craft Made in February. Each one goes in Network with a follow-up dated before the next warp goes on.

  2. March to April

    The Smithsonian Craft Show

    Late April in Washington. The show is a project: the booth fee, the pieces still on the loom for it and the packing list, dated back from load-in.

  3. May to June

    Residency deadlines

    Penland's resident artist applications close June 15, and Haystack's open studio comes around again in January. Residencies, shows and open calls are listed in Opportunities with their deadlines. Mark the ones you're applying to.

  4. July to August

    Convergence, every other year

    HGA's conference meets in New Orleans, August 12 to 16, 2026. The galleries and guild shops you talk to there go in a Galleries pipeline, each with a follow-up date.

  5. September to October

    Applications and the holiday warps

    The Smithsonian application is due September 16. It's a task dated a week ahead, next to the commissions that have to come off the loom before December.

  6. November to December

    Houston and the holiday shops

    International Quilt Festival runs November 12 to 15, then the holiday shops open. Each shop's sales are an invoice with its own due date, some of them in January, with what's paid and what's open in one list.

Keep drafts and dye recipes with the commission

A note in Plya holds the draft and the sett calculation, the dye recipe with its weights and mordant, the strike-off photos and a checklist for dressing the loom, linked to the commission or the license it belongs to. The indigo you got right in March sits one click from the piece that needs it.

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