WeaveIt 4+

Canyon Art, LLC.

    • 4.4 • 5 Ratings
    • $159.99

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Description

WeaveIt Pro
is a full-featured weaving application for Mac operating system that designed for the weaver who wants to design drafts creatively.
General Features
• Easy to use user interface
• Extensive on-line help and glossary of weaving terms.
• Allows up to: 64 harnesses, unlimited treadles
• No limit on number of warp and weft threads
• Balanced, Warp faced, Weft faced, and Warp-rep Weave, Double Weave
• View multiple patterns open at same time
• Edit in one window, while display warp-faced, weft-faced, variable-width or double-weave in fabric window. Changes are immediately displayed in both windows.
• Cut and paste threading or treadling between patterns.
• Display threading at bottom of screen with treadling going up.
• WIF weaving independent file format allows you to exchange weaving drafts with other weaving programs.
• Edit and display draft as lift plan.
• Allows Multiple Treadles.
Editing
• Easy to create and edit threading and treadling and tie-up drafts.
• Edit actions include:
o Mark single cells, draw lines, draw curves
o Undo
o Cut, copy, paste
o Flip in both directions
o Wrap
o Repeat selection of threading or treadling
o Create advancing threading
o Create network draft
o Invert selection of tie-up
o Clear selection of the tie-up
o Create twill tie-up quickly by entering in first column.
• Re-arrange shafts or treadles for more convenient weaving.
Color Management
• Create custom color palettes with unlimited number of colors.
• Select and quickly change color when editing draft.
• Colors are linked to yarns so color can be changed for every occurrence of that color
• Variable width for a yarn color can be set to appear everywhere its used.
• Yarn colors can have names and types.
• Color n' weave effects can be created.
Project Management
• Metric units available
• Computes number of warp ends.
• Computes yardage requirements for warp and weft, and for each yarn.
• Handles variable-width yarns.
• Given fabric loom dimensions will compute finished fabric dimensions.
• Calculates warps based on exact pattern.
• Computes number of heddles required for each shaft
• Computes and displays the color order.
• Computes and displays sectional warping.
• Calculate sett.
Designing
• Treadle as drawn-in
• Color n' Weave
• Turn the draft
• Interleave drafts with custom ratios.
• Parallel threading for up to 4 lines.
• Find floats and edit as they are listed.
• Network drafting.
• Block Substitution
WeaveIt works well with BigSur and Monterey OS

Manual Tracking for non-computerized looms
• Keeps track of threading using custom sized groups.
• Keep track of treadling either as treadles or lift plan.
• Both thread tracking and treadle tracking show yarn colors.
Both tracking types provides options for customizing how you track

What’s New

Version 2.4.5

Fixed Tracking
Improved loading of sample files

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
5 Ratings

5 Ratings

rradarr ,

Very good, excellent repeat feature

Overall I find this software to be powerful, easy to use, and a real pleasure to use. I can find all the tools I want quickly and it does everything I want.

The repeat feature is outstanding (and unusual, if not unique, in weaving design software): when you repeat a section (e.g. of treadling) it only shows one repeat in the drawdown, along with the number of repeats. This makes it easy to see and edit complex designs. The repeat info is stored in a WeaveIt-specific portion of the WIF, giving you the best of both worlds: WeaveIt can find it later, but other weaving software can safely ignore it.

My only complaints, so far:
* It can be a bit sluggish on my iMac with 2 complex WIF files open at the same time. But I rarely push it that hard.
* After editing the treadling, the fabric view alway scrolls back to the top. A nuisance if II am editing the end of a long pattern.
* I wish it offered an upgrade to control Toika dobby looms. (Modern AVL and Louet dobby run web servers, so they don't need special control software).

BTW (in reference to a 4 year old review): colors just fine for me in the current version. I have not yet found any bugs.

Weaver-2019 ,

Color can be a problem

This software has great potential, but I am disappointed with one serious flaw. The color handling just doesn’t work well. You can create a palette of beautiful custom colors, save the file, and the next time you open it up, all of the colors will have changed. Not just a shade shift, but totally different random hues.

There are are lot of little issues that could be improved on, but for now they take a back seat to the color problem. I realize that software design is complex and there are a lot of variables involved, but this is priced as professional grade software and I need it to work. I also have the app version on my Kindle and have not experienced this issue.

If this color issue can be fixed, I’ll re-evaluate, but for now, iWeaveIt Pro isn’t usable to me.

Developer Response ,

I tried it on my Mac and the colors seem to save correctly. So please email me with this problem so that I can research and fix it. It must be something special that I am not doing. Thank you, Sally

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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