diff --git a/web/world/js/sail.js b/web/world/js/sail.js
index 8a0b972..becc223 100644
--- a/web/world/js/sail.js
+++ b/web/world/js/sail.js
@@ -755,9 +755,37 @@ export async function createSailView(rig, { color = 0xd8c48a } = {}) {
   geo.setAttribute('position', new THREE.BufferAttribute(verts, 3));
   geo.setIndex(new THREE.BufferAttribute(new Uint16Array(rig.tris), 1));
 
+  // UVs: the grid IS the UV space, so (i, j) maps straight to (u, v). Without
+  // this three defaults every vertex to (0,0), the map samples one texel, and
+  // the membrane reads as flat colour — which looks like the texture failing
+  // rather than like a bug. (Lane E's recipe, THREADS.)
+  const N = rig.N;
+  const uv = new Float32Array(N * N * 2);
+  for (let j = 0, k = 0; j < N; j++) {
+    for (let i = 0; i < N; i++, k += 2) { uv[k] = i / (N - 1); uv[k + 1] = j / (N - 1); }
+  }
+  geo.setAttribute('uv', new THREE.BufferAttribute(uv, 2));
+
   const mat = new THREE.MeshStandardMaterial({
     color, side: THREE.DoubleSide, roughness: 0.92, metalness: 0.0,
   });
+
+  // Resolved against this module rather than the server root: the same reason
+  // weather.js builds STORM_DIR this way, and it's what the integrator's
+  // /world/ -> relative pass was fixing. A missing texture must not take the
+  // sail down — the cloth is the game, the weave is a finish.
+  try {
+    const tex = await new THREE.TextureLoader().loadAsync(
+      new URL('../models/textures/sail_weave.png', import.meta.url).href,
+    );
+    tex.wrapS = tex.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping;
+    tex.repeat.set(6, 6);                    // ~6 tiles across a 5 m sail (E's density)
+    tex.colorSpace = THREE.SRGBColorSpace;   // r175 spelling — `encoding` is gone
+    tex.anisotropy = 4;                      // it's viewed at a raking angle from underneath
+    mat.map = tex;                           // keep mat.color: the weave multiplies it
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.warn('[sail] weave texture missing, falling back to flat colour:', err.message);
+  }
   const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geo, mat);
   mesh.castShadow = true;    // the shadow IS the product
   mesh.receiveShadow = true;