Thickness Repeats

What It Does

Thickness Repeats applies a yarn thickness pattern to your warp or weft. Just as Color Repeats lets you create repeating color sequences, Thickness Repeats lets you create repeating thickness sequences — defining which threads use thicker or thinner yarn in a repeating cycle.

Yarn thickness affects how the fabric renders in TempoWeave's cloth preview and View Fabric display, showing the visual impact of using different yarn weights in a structured pattern (such as thick-thin alternation in rep weave or textured effects with mixed gauges).

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Opening Thickness Repeats

• Ribbon: Design tab > Repeats group > Thickness Repeats button

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The Dialog

The dialog has two sections: the thickness pattern editor (top) and the destination controls (bottom).

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Thickness Pattern Editor

Building a Thickness Pattern

The pattern is a list of entries, each specifying a thickness value and how many consecutive threads receive that thickness.

Each entry shows:

• A thickness size spinner (1–16) — the relative yarn weight

• A repeat count spinner (1–1,000) — how many consecutive threads get this thickness

Add Size — Adds a new thickness entry with the default size of 4 and repeat count of 1.

Remove — Removes the selected entry.

Clear All — Removes all entries.

Load from Warp — Reads your current warp and builds a pattern by grouping consecutive threads with the same thickness. Useful for capturing an existing thickness arrangement.

Load from Weft — Same but reads from weft picks.

Mirror — Creates a symmetrical pattern by appending a reversed copy (excluding the first entry). Pattern A-B-C becomes A-B-C-B-A.

A summary line shows the total: "Pattern: N sizes, M threads."

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Destination Controls

Apply To

Warp — Apply the thickness pattern to warp threads.

Weft — Apply the thickness pattern to weft picks.

Start Thread / Start Pick

The thread or pick number where the pattern begins (1-based).

Mode

Two modes control how the pattern fills the destination:

Repeats Mode

Applies the complete pattern a specified number of times.

Times — How many complete cycles (1–100).

Shows a preview of the affected range and resulting measurement.

Ending Mode

Applies the pattern cyclically until reaching a target thread or pick number.

End Thread / End Pick — The last position to fill.

The pattern repeats until it reaches the specified end point. After applying, the start position automatically advances to the next position for convenient sequential application.

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How to Use It

1. Open Thickness Repeats from the Design tab

2. Build your thickness pattern:

   • Click Add Size to add entries

   • Set the thickness value (1 = finest, 16 = thickest) and repeat count for each

3. Choose Warp or Weft

4. Set the start position

5. Choose a mode (Repeats or Ending)

6. Click Apply

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Step-by-Step Example: Thick-Thin Weft for Rep Weave

You're weaving rep weave and want alternating thick and thin weft picks:

1. Open Thickness Repeats

2. Add Size: thickness 2, repeat 1 (thin tabby pick)

3. Add Size: thickness 8, repeat 1 (thick pattern pick)

4. Choose Weft, Start Pick 1

5. Select Ending mode, set End Pick to your total pick count

6. Click Apply — every other pick alternates between thin and thick

Step-by-Step Example: Textured Warp with Mixed Gauges

You want a warp that alternates groups of fine and heavy threads:

1. Open Thickness Repeats

2. Add Size: thickness 3, repeat 6 (group of fine threads)

3. Add Size: thickness 10, repeat 2 (pair of heavy threads)

4. Choose Warp, Start Thread 1

5. Select Repeats mode, Times 15

6. Click Apply — the pattern tiles across your warp

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Tips

• Thickness is visual — Thickness values affect how threads render in the drawdown and fabric viewer. They represent relative yarn weight, not absolute measurements.

• Scale is 1–16 — 1 is the finest yarn, 16 is the thickest. The default is 4.

• Load from existing — Use Load from Warp/Weft to capture an existing thickness arrangement as a repeatable pattern.

• Mirror for symmetry — Creates balanced thickness patterns that read the same in both directions.

• Ending mode auto-advances — After applying in Ending mode, the start position moves forward for easy sequential application of different patterns.

• Combine with Color Repeats — Use Color Repeats and Thickness Repeats together to create coordinated color and weight patterns.

• Undo works — Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z) reverts the thickness application.

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Quick Reference

Control	What It Does
Add Size	Add a thickness entry (default size 4)
Remove	Remove the selected entry
Clear All	Remove all entries
Load from Warp/Weft	Build pattern from existing thickness values
Mirror	Make the pattern symmetrical

Mode	How It Applies
Repeats	Apply N complete cycles
Ending	Cycle until reaching a target position

Thickness Scale
1	Finest yarn
4	Default / medium
16	Thickest yarn