WeaveDreamer is fabric design software for hand weavers.
It provides tools for creating and editing textile weaving drafts with support for arbitrary numbers of warp and weft threads, treadles and harnesses. The application combines traditional draft components with palettes, reusable editing operations, WIF interchange and printing facilities.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create weaving drafts with any number of warp and weft threads, treadles and harnesses.
- Edit threading, tie-up and treadling sections of a weaving draft.
- Generate a visual drawdown showing the resulting woven fabric structure.
- Create and edit liftplan drafts.
- Work with network drafts.
- Import weaving drafts stored in WIF format.
- Export completed drafts to WIF files.
- Save and reload drafts using the application’s native format.
- Create weaving designs using configurable colour palettes.
- Save and load palettes for reuse with other projects.
- Remove unwanted colours from a palette.
- Select a palette when creating a new draft.
- Select consecutive draft cells by dragging across the grid.
- Copy and paste picks and tie-ups.
- Paste selected material into a different draft.
- Paste Special operations can repeat, scale and transpose selections between grids.
- Paste threading selections to the left when working with right-to-left numbering.
- Undo editing operations.
- Display the current cursor position within a draft.
- Show floats continuously within the draft.
- Keep threading and treadling areas visible while scrolling through large drafts.
- Print weaving drafts for offline reference at the loom.
- Tile view for examining repeating sections of a design.
- Getting Started window for new users.
- Runs on Linux and other platforms with a Java 21 or later runtime.
Website: github.com/pdhammond42/weavedreamer
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Developer: Pete Hammond
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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