Pixeloom manual

Look back at your fantastic weaving projects, add new notes and reference the notes you already made. This will show all your drafts. This includes drafts you have created and those who have bookmarked. Your fiber stash all in one place. Look back at your fantastic fiber, add new notes and reference the notes you already made. All- I'm thinking about buying a weaving software tool. I'm downloading and trying out a couple.

They all have their quirks. What is your favorite software tool? I've always like Fiberworks. Fiberworks has more options. Try them all and choose, is the best way. You can download the demo software which I think you've done. I am generally impatient with tutorials or manuals, but on a cross-country flight I went through the manual step-by-step, and learned quite a bit.

In fact, its probably time for me to do this again. I am also hoping to some day purchase a tempo-treadler , and so if that happens, I will need my full plan worked out in software. Fiberworks is the good old stable weaving program. It goes into complex patterning such as would later be used on dobby looms and many other advanced weaves. Weavepoint is from Scandinavia and has links to a module that is helpful for those contemplating double harness weaving.

Unfortunately I have tried that Pikes Peak freebie over a span of at least 10 years and found it crashed every operating system over that span and wasn't that well documented. No longer consider it. Thank you all. I"ve had time to play with the fiberworks demo and I like it.

Like anything free I'm likely not seeing all the details that I really need to know in the demo. I love Fiberworks. I used it in college from the university and when I graduated I found myself annoyed with the free version.

It will certainly do in a pinch if you dont want to use graph paper and take a long time. I love the string counts and heddle counts most. Also, tinker with the printing until you get what you like before printing a big draw down. I usually only print the threading plan and then I use a paper printout I got at school to do the lift plan. I hand write those in. I have one for 4 shafts and I fudged one for 8.

You can make one of those on basic spreadsheet software. I make every other row grey so I can look at a glance when weaving an overshot and know what the next tabby pic is. Like every grey row is a 2 and a 4. I am sure that might not be explained well without a photo but maybe you get my drift. I probably should look further into what I can actually do with that software. A dobby mechanism programmable shaft selector is an alternative for the tie-ups to the treadles on a standard hand weaving loom.

Looms with 16 or more shafts need a dobby mechanism, because it becomes unmanageable to operate such a loom with treadles. An 8-shafts jack loom requires an average of 40 tie-ups on the treadles. A counter marche requires 80 tie-ups. This needs to be done in a very uncomfortable position. With a dobby loom, you can say good-bye to the tie-ups! The new Octado has a similar operating method as the familiar Megado. Shafts and treadles are added as the draft is created.

A number of features have been added with instructors and authors in mind. Any element of the draft can be copied and then pasted into a document, for instance.

Downloadable single-user license for pixeLoom Windows , with support for electronic dobby heads. It's so easy to use pixeLoom is like a paint program for weaving drafts. It allows you to create a pattern, visualize or modify an existing design, as well as experiment with colorways, treadling options and borders.

Products Single-user license of pixeLoom on Windows or Mac.