Note: In WeaveDesign, the drawdown is displayed European style, with the threading on the bottom of the screen, the tie up to the right, and the treadling above the tie up: You can also specify whether to generate the draft for a rising or sinking shed.
The weaver can choose whether the display shows the weave draft as a liftplan or as a tie up with treadling. For example, it allows you to create designs in two modes: Single Harness (for shaft looms with a standard tie up and treadling) or Double Harness (for shaft drawlooms and single drawlooms). WeaveDesign has all the features of a basic weave-design program with some extra bonuses. It is available for download from the Pikes Peak Weavers Guild. The shareware program WeaveDesign, by Bengt Nelson, supports both a native format (WDV) and WIF files. That is, software which generates a drawdown from basic information about the weave structure: threading, tie up, and treadling. When computers and weaving are mentioned in the same sentence, my mind first turns to weave-design software. Wif2Tiff runs on either Windows or Macintosh.
#Weave the line for mac pro#
Because WeaveDesign, RugDesign, and LaceWeave are written for Microsoft Windows, I ran them in Windows XP on a MAC Pro using VMWare Fusions. The intent of this article is not to review program features in detail, but to present a variety of intriguing weaving-related programs that are either free or available for a nominal fee. As the economy struggles, what better time to explore frugal ways to indulge both of these interests? Readers of WeaveZine share some common denominators: we use computers and are interested in weaving.
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