- Pattern Name / directory path
- Number of Shafts in pattern / select number of shafts
- Enable/disable Floating Selvages / Floating Selvages recommended(video)
- Enable/disable Drawloom control:(video)
- _Select number of Ground Shafts/Treadles/Draw cords
- _"AUTO" to allow single click in warp/weft to set all draws for unit
- _Select Single Unit or Pattern Harness Drawloom
- Number of Treadles in pattern / select number of treadles
- Minimize number of shafts/treadles (delete if not used in pattern)
- Reduce number of treadles in pattern (Uses Multi-treadles (2) to reduce number of treadles)(video)
- Enable/disable Multi-treadle, Select Lift Plan treadling, Convert Lift Plan to Tieup/Tieup to Lift Plan
- Enable/Disable Warnings for Duplicate Threads/First & Last thread duplications
- Select Rising/Falling shed mode
- Select Thread Draft or Profile Draft mode
- Perform Block Substitution (convert Profile draft to Thread Draft)
- Select Warp Faced/Even Beat (balanced weave)/Weft Faced
- Select display preferences for threading display (top/bottom of draft) and Treadling display (left/right of draft)(video)
- Access Color Palette controls
- Replace "Default" pattern (Where "new" file begins)
- Update Global Preferences (saved by "save as default template")
- Save As format {WIF 1.1 / 2.0 (includes Color IDs, annotations & repeats in open formats)}
- View/Edit pattern notes
- Heddle, Thread & float counters (Save Counter to clipboard for paste into other applciations)
- "Blend" pattern treadling (Select all patterns (windows) to be blended, then "Blend Patterns Now"(video 3.2.1)(video 6.2)
- "Set Reference Pattern" - basis for file comparison or filling threadling after treadle reduction)
- "Compare Patterns" - Shows difference between selected patterns, including full thread intersection pattern match
- "Regenerate Treadling" - Used to regenerate treadling sequence from an edited tieup for Treadle Reducer (video 6.4 Treadle Reduction)Quickdraw Version Identification/Copyright message at bottom of screen
- Log Enable (enable data logging to help investigate problems)
Color Palette Controls:(video)
- Shows colors currently in palette
- Tools to add/delete colors to palette (drag & drop)
- Select background color for all displays
- Clear (reset palette to just black & white) and Shrink (eliminate all colors not used in current pattern) Palette
- Grayscale to reduce all colors to Black & White equivalents
- Image- Ability to extract colors from bitmap image on system clipboard (video)
- Purge IDs - Delete Color identification to ensure WIF file compatibility with other weaving software
- Copy/Paste/Merge full color palette between patterns
- Common Colors including R-O-Y-G-B-V hues & rainbow, 2 color wheels
- Custom Colors in Red-Greeb-Blue and Red-Yellow-Blue (Yellow-Cyan-Magenta) primaries
- Identifier (Add manufacturer's color name & other identification as pertinent)
(video 6.8)
- Full range of shades of selected color
- Ability to use bitmap images for overall Warp and/or Weft to help visualize gradient threads(video 3.3.2)(video 6.5)
- Ability to use virtual thread images for any thread color(video 3.3.3)
- Ability to use bitmap images for individual threads (photo-realistic thread diagrams)
(video 6.6)
- "Done" to return to previous view
Pattern Editing View:(video)
- Edit Warp / Weft seqeunces & tieup, scroll displays
- "Shaft Shuffler" - re-arrange shafts/treadles (zoom in till shaft/treadle numbers appear, shufflers appear left & below tieup)
- Mouse control functions: point-to-point line, freehand sequence, straight twill, point twill, paste threads, paste reversing threads,Select area, Amalgamation tools, Fill area
Videos:(Warp/Weft) (Multi-treadle/lift plan)(Tieup editor)(Video 6.3 Amalgamation)
- Ability to hide (minimize) the edit control panel and shift it to top of screen(Up arrow, top right of panel)
- Import Warp/Weft sequence, colors, thread sizes & thread spacing from system clipboard (Excel Import)(video 3.4.13)(video 6.1)
- "Use Images" Allows special handling to view gradient warp/weft threads and photo-realistic threads (see Color Palette Controls)
- Displays number of threads in pattern, threads in copy buffer, max float in pattern, number of threads selected
- Warp & Weft thread sizes may both be set to 50% or 20% to allow single-screen display of very large patterns (may be slow to display)
- Drawloom Displays:(video)
- _Green Border area in Threading/Treadling/Tieup seperates Drawloom Ground Shafts/Treadles from Draw cords
- _Countermarche/Counterbalance tieup identifies Rising/Falling/Floating threads (controlled by draw cords) for unit
- _Threading display shows ground shafts (below green line) and draw cords (above line) for each thread
- _Treadling display shows ground treadles (left of line) and draw cords (right of line) for each shot
Warp/Weft Edit Commands:
- Select All threads, Cut/Delete/Copy selected threads
- Multiple copy buffers hold all thread characteristics (shaft/treadle assignment, thread size & color)
- Select thread characteristics to copy/paste, Number of block repeats (video)
- Copy warp/weft sequence as number text to system clipboard (e.g. 1 2 3 4 3 2)
- Copy draft & drawdown to system clipboard as bitmap image(video)
- _Intersperse threads in copy buffer between thread in selected area
- _"shuffle" threads from seperate blocks into integrated sequence
- Add/Remove Parallel threads, select relative position where parallels are inserted(video)
- Network Controls:(video)
- _Select network "initial" desired
- _Echo & Iris tool controls parallel threads at any relative position & color
- Amalgamation function (Reference Alice Schlein's process), select amalgamation seed & automated amalgamation (video)
- Rotate warp/weft threads up/down/left/right to manipulate pattern(video)
- Reverse (end-to-end) and Invert (top to bottom) shafts/treadles(video)
- Select Insert/Replace threads to shift pattern over a new threads are added or over-write existing threads
- Tromp-As-Writ (Weft Treadling sequence is the same as Warp Threading sequence - automatically updates weft treadling sequence)(video)
- Toggle Tieup (effectively toggles between Rising/Falling shed pattern
- Turn Draft - turns draft 90 degrees to weave "sideways" (switch warp/weft & turn tieup)
- Spread - Spread threads on selected shaft by adding additional shaft(s) and spread evenly across shafts(video)
- Tabby (1/2) - Add tabby shots to pattern
- Hide controls/Hide Warp - change view for more screen space while editing
- Annotations & Repeats - associate labels with a range of warp/weft threads
(video 3.7.10)
(video 6.9)
(video 6.10)
- _Add/change/delete annotations/repeats
- _Expand repeat structures, find repeats & compress warp/weft sequences
- _Color Order view: Warp/Weft color seqeunces (threads of same color), repeats (Add/Edit/Delete)
- _Expand Warp/Weft Repeats & Overlay independent thread Color Order over expanded structure
- Count of Warp & weft threads, max float length in pattern
- Number of threads
Warp/Weft Color Controls:
- Warp/weft color for new thread additions
- Current Color Palette/access to Color Palette controls
- Controls to create a sequence of colors & thread sizes & fill by rotation/spread/random or by shaft/treadle(video)
- Thread number, color index (and Identification) and size of selected warp/weft thread
Tieup Edit Commands
- Select All ties, copy/paste/delete ties in tieup
- Toggle (change pattern face) all or selected ties in tieup
- Use "straight twill" mouse tool to fill tieup with rotated treadle ties
- Rotate up/down/left/right controls to scroll full tieup or selected sections
- Toggle, Turn, Reverse & Invert selections
- Quarter (1/4) tieup, Reverse/Invert symmetric quadrants, turn quadrants 90,180 & 270 degrees
- Toggle quadrants 2,3,4 from base quadrant - Changes to Q1 automatically updated to other quadrants
- Double Right Click in drawdown to change related point in Tieup
View multiple repeats of pattern:(video)
View reverse side of fabric:
View "finished" fabric (good for lace/deflected patterns & double-weave):
View reverse side of "finished" fabric:
- Zoom & scroll to view representations of finished cloth
- Copy draft & drawdown to system clipboard as bitmap image
- Pull-down to select type of finished fabric: --- Laces - Boundweave/Krokbragd - Doubleweave - Multi-layer cloth
View floats in pattern:(video)
- View pattern structure with longest floats hilighted
- Select float "threshold"/hilights threads over & near threshold
- Select warp/weft floats on front/rear of cloth
- Select number of repeats of pattern to analyze (looks for floats between pattern blocks)
Graphic Entry of pattern (Grid view):(Overview Video)
- Grid size is 256x256 points, shows up to 256 shafts (horizontal blocks) & treadles (vertical blocks)
- Mouse control functions: point-to-point line, freehand sequence, paste copied ponts,Select area, Fill area(video)
- Thread/Profile draft controls - profile to threading (block substitution) / threading to profile (reverse block substitution)(Threading design)(Profile design)(Threading Substitution)(Basic Weave Structure Library)
- Drawloom mode to allow "thread substitution" to define countermarche/counterbalance tieup and generate full drawloom pattern (Drawloom Structure Library)(Ground Unit Editor)
- Selection controls to modify selected area on grid:
- _Rotate selection up/down/left/right
- _Reverse (left/right), Invert (top/bottom) points in selected area
- _Toggle (reverse state of all points), Turn (90 degrees clockwise) selected points
- _Shrink to reduce large patterns to half size / reduce by selected reduction
- Paste Image to grid (from system clipboard) / extract weaving structure & thread colors from image(video 3.7.4)
(video 6.11)
- Import multi-color bitmap as profile blocks and seperate blocks for each color
- Import color pattern structure image to drawing grid/export grid structure for pattern editing
- Import profile draft of drawloom threading pattern (video 3.7.9)(video 6.12)
- Copy Grid to system clipboard as text or bitmap image
- Load & Save ".bmp" files on the grid
- "Hide" reduces size of control panel to allow more space for grid display
- Shows number of required shafts/treadles (or profile blocks) required for pattern on grid
- Shows Threading/Treadling sequences & tieup for pattern
- Clear Grid (hilighted area)
- Vertical/horizontal/diagonal symmetry lines(video)
- Vertical/Horizontal reference lines, reference circles, Drag&Drop reference lines (extend structures)
- Selection tool to determine portion of grid to analze/export (video)
- Horizontal & vertical scroll controls
- Define Pattern/Background threading blocks, substitute blocks for points to generate threading drafts(Drawloom design)
- Threading substitution with Blended structures, Multi-layer structures (using & creating multi-layer structures)(video)
- Structures - selecting multiple structures, adding structures, copy structure to buffer, select structure to paste to profile
- Library Structures - Perform Threading Substitution with Block Substitution library structures
- Explore Structure - Tools to automatically generate background & pattern blocks from a profile draft - Generate random, structurally sound substitution options to explore new weave structures(video)
- Layer Sequence - Select structure layer order for multi-layer structures
(video 6.13)
(video 6.14)
Block Substitution (new/modify substitution):(video)
- Substitution available from multiple views: Main menu, Project Setup view, Grid View, Warp Saver View
- Pattern/Background controls - Use selected areas as pattern or background in substitution
- Tabby - Do substitutions with/without tabby treadling
- "??" Views mouse-over help describing current patterns substitution alternatives
Standard Substitution options:
- Thumbnails - shows all substition options available as graphic thumbnails from which the desired conversion may be selected
- Laces: Bronson lace, Spot Bronson, Huck Lace (3,5,7 thread)
- Twill & Related: Twill (straight & broken twills), turned Twill, Crackle, M's & O's, Traditional Overshot, Multi-shat Overshot
- Summer & Winter: 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 2:4 Threading; X, O, Block & column treadling, Taquete
- Damask & Satins: 4,5,6,7,8 thread damasks
- Double Weaves: Doubleweave, Beiderwand & Lampas
- Others: Bateman, Bergman, Quigley
Custom Substitution options:
- (See alternative thread substitution under Graphic Entry of Pattern)
- Select number of warp threads per block, number of shafts required
- Auto Treadle or Select number of weft threads per block, number of treadles required
- Enter threading/treadling for each block, On-Opposites, Incidentals, Block Tieup
- "Convert Now" = perform the conversion
Network Drafting: (per Alice Schlein)(video)
- "Excel Import" to import Initial, Pattern Line, Treadling Keys, Ribbons from system clipboard
Select Initial:
- Select from predefined initials or create any desired network initial
- Mouse control functions: point-to-point line, freehand sequence, straight twill, point twill, paste threads, paste reversing
- Select All, Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete, Insert, Reverse & Invert controls
- Draw Network Pattern Line, instantaneous display of sample woven product ("Sample")
- Network Pattern Line is stored in file and may be edited at any time
- Selection of number of shafts on design line and number of shafts to use while weaving
- Shows maximum float length in thread draft
- "Shaft Rule", Telescope/Digitize & "REDUCE" functions
- Controls to reverse Initial & Treadling Keys on design line slope changes
- Color controls to control warp & weft thread colors, echo thread colors & relative positions
Treadling Key:
- Drag & Drop standard (treadling) keys or create custom keys
- real-time display of contrast diagrams for each ribbon
- Multiple overlay ribbons/keys (4)
Ribbon:
- Rotate ribbon up/down/left/right
- Real time display of updated woven pattern
- Multiple overlay ribbons/keys (4)
- Mouse control functions: point-to-point line, freehand sequence, straight twill, point twill, paste threads, paste reversing
- Select All, Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete, Insert, Reverse & Invert controls
- Automatic update of ribbon from design line or full edit control of each ribbon
- Controls to stretch ribbon size & left/right
- Shows maximum float length in thread draft
- "Shaft Rule", Telescope/Digitize & "REDUCE" functions
- Controls to reverse Initial & Treadling Keys on design line slope changes(video)
Echo & Iris tools: (per Marian Stubenitsky)(video)
Design Line:
- Mouse control functions: point-to-point line, freehand sequence, straight twill, point twill, paste threads, paste reversing
- Select All, Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete, Insert, Reverse & Invert controls
- Draw Design Line, instantaneous display of sample woven product ("Sample")
- Design Line is stored in file and may be edited at any time
- Selection of number of shafts on design line and number of shafts to use while weaving
- Shows maximum float length in thread draft
- "Shaft Rule", Telescope/Digitize & "REDUCE" functions
Threading/Treadling:
- Select Initial/Base Network (profile, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7)
- Extend threading design line length, number of echo threads
- Color controls to control warp & weft thread colors, echo thread colors & relative positions
- Edit Tieup
- Tabby (Add/don't add tabby)
Author's Notes:
- Select specific page references in "Weaving with Echo and Iris" to see how tools are used to create indicated pattern
Name Draft Tool:(video)
- Enter character string for name drafting (import from system clipboard - Excel Import)
- Show Controls: Clear string, "Symmetry"(Make pattern Symmetric), Star/Rose/skeleton profile tieups, number of shafts to use in weaving
- Show Drafts: Next/Prior coding to sequence through predefined codings, "Random" coding to generate sequence at random, "Split Screen" to save current draft for comparisons
Tools for Threading/Treadling/Tieup on loom (Loom Help - AKA "Treadle Tracker"):(video)
- Graphic display of current step in sequence - Save & Restore current point in process
- _Selectable step size displays, "Tabby" tool shows shafts to generate best approximation of "tabby" weave
- Repeat for single repeat of fully-defined project or to repeat project blocks
- Forward/reverse sequencing of pattern (Move Up/Down/Left/Right)
- Voice interface so that computer may be isolated from loom (use wireless mouse for control) - Mute voice interface
- Tracks changes in thread color & size (for warp & weft help)
- Interfaces with Dobby looms ("?" identifies loom types supported)(overview)(Generic Dobby)(AVL CD3)
Warp - Threading help(video)
- Show Shaft assignment for each shaft, may jump by steps
- Shows thread shaft assignment and adjacents
- Show tieup by treadle or by shaft (usage depends on your loom)
- Shows Current shaft/treadle and adjacents
Weft - Treadling help(video)
- Seperate displays for Lift Plan/multi-treadle or single treadle or Drawloom projects(video)
- Shows overall Treadling Sequence marking current position
- Shows pattern woven so far and upcoming shots, shifting as advancing though pattern
- Shows tieup for current treadle (for use with table looms)
- Pickup control (If less shafts on loom than required for pattern - including Rigid Heddle weaving)
- __ Rigid Heddle controls (vs multi-harness loom)
- __ Select number of physical treadles on loom
- __ Reference Offset to select how many shots of woven pattern are shown
- Tools to assist with Pickup Patterns (Rigid Heddle & treadle looms)(controls video)(Rigid Heddle Project video)
Threading/Treadling sequence display (old-school cartoons to use while threading loom or treadling while weaving)(video)
- Draws warp/weft sequences with tieup in large diagrams which may be cut & pasted together to make large diagram of pattern
"Double Width"/Display multi-layer cloth tools (folding a wide pattern to weave on a narrow loom):(video)
- "Smart" tool to assist with folding a large pattern considering pattern float lengths
- Information displayed is pattern specific to assist with the folding process
Double Width Tool(video)
- Number of layers to make (up to 32 total shafts for all layers)
- Make project as folded single piece, continuous tube or multiple seperate pieces woven at the same time
- "Hinge Threads" adds threads to structure to avoid threads catching & stitching layers together(video)
- "Execute" implements the folding identified ("?" shows moreinformation)
View Multi-Layer cloth(video)
- See layers develop in Multi-layer cloth
- Seperate warp threads into layers "By Shaft" (folded fabric) or "By Rotation" (multi-layer designs)
- Select range of threads commands apply to
- Select layer order of warp thread rotation
- Companion tool to the Double Width tool used during it's development
- Analyzes pattern to determine number of layers & shows the pattern spread into the layers to be woven
- Shows accumulation of threads between layers shot-by-shot to see how the layers develop
- "First shot" to go to first shot in treadling sequence
- Next/Previous (Prev) shot to sequence through the sequence
- Select number of layers to show in display & assign specific shafts to each layer
- Warp thread positions may be assigned automatically & moved to show the current shot or may be manually moved to see how the warp threads interract with weft
- "Thread View" is a tool to view the weft thread interlacements from the perspective of a specific warp thread (look up the thread "tunnel")
"Warp Saver" tools (Explore different treadling from a fixed threading):(video)
- Explore alternate treadling by Searching Block Substitution or by Tromp-as-writ with alternate tieups
- Float threshold used to filter out potential patterns with excessive floats
Search Substitutions (Search Subs)(video)
- Looks for warp threading sequence in the block substitution library
- Shows all treadling options for substitution patterns found in library,
- Live Grid view of pattern may be modified by mouse clicks, resultant pattern is also shown
- "CLR" to clear grid, "INS" to insert a weft row, "Del" to delete one
- Small & Large checkerboards will make grid larger or smaller
- Arrow keys will scroll the grid up & down
- Uses the threading sequence for the treadling sequence
- "Next Twill" & "Random Tieup"to try twill tieups to present alternatives
- "Symmetric" extends treadling sequence in reverse order if the single repeat is not symmetric
- Star/Rose/Shuffle Tieup to evaluate changes in pattern woven
Treadle Sequence
- (Once I figure out what might work, this is where it will go)
Boundweave Editor (Krokbrag):(video)
- Specialized editor for Boundweave projects
- Mouse control functions: point-to-point line, freehand sequence, straight twill, point twill, paste threads, paste reversing
- Select All, Copy, Paste, Cut, Insert, Replace controls
- Drag & Drop from color palette to main grid to create patterns
- Threading & tieup are fixed
<>li>"Edit Treadling" to revise the treadling sequence
View WIF files in directory (View thumbnails of all weaving patterns in your directory/sub-directories):(video)
- Open any file in directory desired
- Select "View WIF in directory" - thumbnails of all files will be shown, with scroll bars if necessary
- list may be filtered by number of shafts in pattern using "0-4", "5-8", "9-12", "13-16","17-24","25-32" filter controls. "Refresh" re-filters for files within the indicated ranges
- Mouse-over thumbnail will show file path & numnber of shafts used
- Click on desired thumbnail to open file
View "Zoom" controls:
- "Big squares" makes the threads larger, "Small squares" makes the threads smaller
- Scroll wheel on mouse also controls the thread sizes
Undo/Re-do controls:
- Pattern is saved before changes are made, undo reverts to previous version
- Re-do goes back to preceeding pattern state
File Tab controls:(video)
New/Open/Save File controls:
- Standard system controls for file management
Printing controls:(video)
- Print, Print Preview, Print Setup - Standard system controls for printing
"Print Page Setup" controls pattern information to be printed
- Bold controls indicate what information will be printed
- Summary is textual information from Project Setup Screen
- Thread/Treadle prints just the threading/treadling sequences and tieup (no drawdown)
- "Low Res"/"High Res"/"Finished" views add the drawdown indicated
- Substitution View will add the specific block substitution sets used for the conversion
- Network View will add the network Initial, design line, keys, ribbons, etc to the page printed
Other useful videos:
Sample project videos:
Version 5.5.0 August 12, 2023
Quickdraw Weaving Software