Weave Patterner guides

How to use Weave Patterner, part by part. The same guides are in the app: press F1 for help with whatever you are working on.

• Getting started

  What a draft is, and how to make your first pattern

• Threading

  Putting each warp end on a shaft

• Tie-up

  Which shafts each treadle lifts

• Treadling and lift plans

  Which treadle (or shafts) each pick uses

• The drawdown

  The cloth, worked out from the threading, tie-up and treadling

• Drawing tools

  Click, Straight draw and Point draw

• Colours

  Warp and weft colours, stripes, favourite colours and colourways

• Blocks of ends

  Name stretches of the threading, weave them as presets, and save them to reuse

• Pattern settings

  Size, colours, view options and the pattern itself

• Floats, edges and repeats

  What the status bar at the bottom tells you

• Drawing on paper

  Print a grid, colour it in by hand, and scan or photograph it back in

• Tools

  Every tool in the Tools menu, and what it does

• Weaving at the loom

  Step through the picks, or thread the loom end by end

• 3D cloth

  See the cloth in 3D, woven, or made up into things

• Saving, sharing and printing

  Save in the browser, export files, share links and print

• Keyboard shortcuts

  Keys that save time

• Accessibility

  Using Weave Patterner with a keyboard, a screen reader or high contrast

• On a phone or tablet

  Tapping, swiping and where things are

• Glossary

  Weaving words, explained

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