WEAVING SOFTWARE

Weave Maker is powerful, professional design software that makes sense to designers. It is the perfect software tool for the intermediate to advanced designer of woven fabrics. WeaveMaker is packed with features for dobby design. Realistic fabric rendering, direct design creation (draw your design as you want it woven), and full-fabric float analysis and correction is super easy and fast.

Create original designs quickly, or enter an existing design in any of several ways (visual and numeric input capabilities).

Built-in yarn calculator (metric, cotton, worsted, linen, denier, tex, yards per pound and grams per meter). Many technical features, including denting, beaming, and stop motion.

Whether working for a mill or as a free-lancer, designing by hand or with CAD software, using WeaveMaker will help you to:

• Automatic pattern generation
  You set the guidelines and WeaveMaker will automatically generate patterns. After spending thousands of hours interviewing and working with designers and weavers, our software developers created these automatic pattern generators that allow WeaveMaker to produce weaves that fit many styles. Every weave created by the automatic pattern generators is unique!
• Repeats
  WeaveMaker gives you simple, friendly tools to make straight repeats, mirrored repeats and other variations, in weaving elements (threading, treadling, peg plan) and in warp and weft color assignment.
• 3D Fabric viewer
  WeaveMaker will show you a piece of your fabric in 3D, so you can examine your weave in detail!

• Ability to rearrange harnesses even after design is completed
  Improve the efficiency of your loom threading by rearranging harnesses, after you have completed your design. WeaveMaker makes all the necessary adjustments.
• Warp threading and color locking capabilities
  Develop dozens of patterns from a single warp.

• Increase your personal productivity. Produce more designs in less time with fewer errors and more confidence.
• Spend more time on design and less on tedious thread-by-thread editing.
• Create fresh, new looks.
• Use longer repeats.
• Use color more effectively.
• Tackle complex weave structures and color arrangements.

Weaveit

·         WeaveIt is a weaving software program for creating, designing and displaying Weaving drafts and patterns. Weavers create the threading, treadling and tie-up and WeaveIt will display the draft as a drawdown. Handweavers will appreciate the ability to calculate yarn yardage and the number of heddles.

·         WeaveIt supports Windows XP and Windows Vista, and Windows 7. It will also support the older systems of Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000.

·         There are two versions of the program, a Basic version for someone who likes to create draw downs and a Pro version for the person who wants more design capability. The Pro version has all the capability of the Basic version so that hand weavers can use as much as they are ready for.

Advanced hand weavers will love the many design tools available: Block substitution, Double Weave, Fabric Analysis, Taquete and Polychome Design, turning and blending drafts, plus the many means of free-form designing and editing of drafts.