How to Use this App
1. Name Your Design
At the top of the Design Grid is a line that says “Name your design”. Type in any name you like. When you load a preset, the preset name fills in automatically.
You must give your design a name before you can print.
2. Preset Designs
There are two dropdown menus of optional designs from vintage Weave-It and Loomette booklets above the grid. You can use the patterns as they are or edit them however you like.
Select a pattern from either list to load it instantly onto the grid, or skip them entirely and draw your own.
3. Drawing Your Pattern
Light grey squares in the grid are thread crossings formed when warping your loom and cannot be changed.
The numbered rows (Rows 1 to 16) are the rows you weave. Row 1 and Row 16 are locked on the chart and cannot be changed. They must be plain weave to prevent your square from unravelling when you take it off the loom.
Black squares mean the yarn goes over the warp threads; white squares mean it goes under. Use the tools to draw on the grid:
Draw Tool [D]: Click and drag over squares to draw your design. This is the default tool when the app loads.
Select Tool [S]: Click and drag to select a number of cells. Once selected, use the Copy, Paste, and Clear Area buttons, or the keyboard shortcuts below.
Press the Escape button, or click outside the slection area to deselect.
Copy (Ctrl+C): Copies the selected cells.
Paste (Ctrl+V): Pastes copied cells. Select the top, left hand corner of where you want your copied cells to be placed and the whole selection will be pasted.
Clear Area (Delete): Clears only the cells within the current selection.
Undo (Ctrl+Z): Undoes your drawing one step at a time, up to 50 steps.
Clear: Resets the entire grid and returns the design title to “Name your design”. This cannot be undone.
4. Design Preview
Click the button to render a realistic woven-fabric simulation of your current pattern.
The Design Preview appears below the grid and shows your pattern will look like when woven. You can choose different colours for each of the four layers to see what weaving in more than one colour will look like.
The Reset Colours button returns all layers to the default colour.
5. Written Instructions
Click the button to create row-by-row instructions.
Each row shows:
• The row number and a plain-language description of the weaving sequence, for example: Row 3: (U1, O1) × 5, U3, (O1, U1) × 5 — meaning under 1, over 1, repeated 5 times, then under 3, and so on.
• A direction tag showing whether that row is woven Right to Left (← for odd rows) or Left to Right (→ for even rows).
If your pattern contains floats longer than 5 threads, the instructions won’t generate and a warning will be shown.
6. Printing
Click the Print button (at the top right of the page) to print your design. You must have named your design before printing.