Arrange Treadles

Found on the Tools Menu

What It Does

Arrange Treadles lets you reorder the treadles in your draft by dragging them into a new position. When you move a treadle, its tie-up connections move with it, and all treadling references are updated automatically. The cloth structure stays exactly the same — you're just reorganizing which physical treadle controls which shafts.

This is purely an ergonomic tool. Weavers often want to rearrange treadles so the most-used ones are in the most comfortable positions (typically the center treadles on a floor loom), or to put treadles in a logical left-to-right order that makes the treadling sequence easier to follow with your feet.

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Opening Arrange Treadles

• Ribbon: Tools tab > Arrange Treadles button

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The Arrange Treadles Dialog

The dialog shows each treadle as a tile you can drag. Each tile displays:

• The treadle number — So you can identify which treadle it is

• A mini tie-up view — A small grid showing which shafts that treadle raises (colored cells = raised shafts). This helps you see at a glance what each treadle does, so you can arrange them logically.

To reorder, simply click and drag a tile to its new position. The other tiles shift to make room as you drag. You can rearrange as many treadles as you like before clicking Apply.

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How to Use It

1. Go to Tools tab > Arrange Treadles

2. Look at the treadle tiles — each one shows its tie-up connections

3. Drag treadles to the positions you want

4. Click Apply

Your tie-up columns are reordered and all treadling references are updated. The drawdown looks exactly the same — only the treadle assignments have changed.

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Step-by-Step Example: Centering Your Tabby Treadles

You have an overshot draft where the tabby treadles ended up at positions 7 and 8 (the far right), but you'd prefer them in the center where they're easier to reach:

1. Open Arrange Treadles from the Tools tab

2. Find the two tabby treadles (you can identify them by their mini tie-up — tabby treadles raise alternating shafts: 1,3,5... and 2,4,6...)

3. Drag them to positions 3 and 4 (or wherever is most comfortable)

4. Click Apply

The pattern treadles shift to accommodate the new positions. Your treadling sequence now uses the new treadle numbers, but the cloth is unchanged.

Step-by-Step Example: Logical Ordering for a Twill

You imported a draft where the treadles are in a seemingly random order. You'd like them arranged so the treadling sequence reads more logically:

1. Open Arrange Treadles from the Tools tab

2. Use the mini tie-up views to identify what each treadle does

3. Drag them into a sequence that makes sense for your pattern — for example, arranging a twill so the treadles progress from left to right

4. Click Apply

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When to Use It

• After importing a draft — Imported WIF files may have treadles in an order that doesn't match your loom setup or preference

• Ergonomic comfort — Move frequently-used treadles to the center positions where they're easiest to press

• Teaching and readability — Arrange treadles in a logical order so the treadling sequence is easier to read and follow

• After To Tie-up conversion — When converting from liftplan to tie-up, the generated treadle order may not be ideal. Rearrange them to suit your preference.

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Limitations

• Tie-up mode only — Arrange Treadles is not available in liftplan mode, since liftplans don't use treadles. If you need this feature, convert to tie-up first (Tools tab > To Tie-up).

• Requires at least 2 treadles — You need two or more treadles for rearranging to make sense.

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Tips

• Undo works — Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z) reverts the rearrangement in one step.

• No change is fine — If you open the dialog, look around, and decide the order is already good, just click Cancel. If you click Apply without moving anything, TempoWeave recognizes that nothing changed and leaves the draft alone.

• Check the mini tie-ups — The small shaft grids on each tile are very helpful for identifying which treadle does what, especially in complex drafts with many treadles.

• The cloth never changes — This is a reorganization tool, not an editing tool. No matter how you rearrange the treadles, the resulting fabric is identical.

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Quick Reference

Detail	Info
Location	Tools tab > Arrange Treadles
Works in	Tie-up mode only (not liftplan)
What moves	Tie-up columns + all treadling references
What stays the same	The cloth structure — identical before and after
Minimum treadles	2