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# Remove Tabby

Found on the Tools Menu

*Available on Desktop and Mobile.*

### What It Does

Remove Tabby strips out the alternating tabby picks from your treadling, leaving only the pattern picks behind. This is the reverse of Add Tabby — use it to undo a previous tabby insertion, clean up an imported draft, or remove tabby from a specific section of your design.

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### Opening Remove Tabby

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Desktop" %}

* **Ribbon**: Tools tab > Tabby group > Remove Tabby button
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Mobile" %}

* Tap **Tools** on the rail (tablet) or the bottom dock (phone), then **Remove Tabby…** under Tabby
  {% endtab %}
  {% endtabs %}

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### The Remove Tabby Dialog

#### Remove From

Controls which part of the draft to remove tabby from:

**All Picks** (default) Removes tabby picks from the entire draft. This starts at pick 2 (assuming pick 1 is a pattern pick and pick 2 is the first tabby) and works through to the last pick.

**Pick Range** Removes tabby only within a specific range of picks, leaving the rest of the draft unchanged. When selected, two fields appear:

* **From pick** — The first pick to start removing from (defaults to 2)
* **To pick** — The last pick in the range (defaults to your total pick count)

This is useful when:

* **Removing hems** — Strip tabby from just the top or bottom of your draft while keeping it elsewhere
* **Changing structure in one section** — Remove tabby from a specific area so you can re-do it with different settings
* **Preparing to Interleave -** When preparing interlave weft from two drafts, sometimes tabby needs to be removed first then reapplied later.

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#### How tabby is found

Remove Tabby detects tabby by structure: a pick counts as tabby when it weaves plain weave against your threading, whatever its spacing. It no longer assumes every second or third pick, which could remove pattern picks from an irregular sequence. A draft with tabby after every pick, after every second pick, or in a hem only is handled the same way, and only the picks that really are tabby go.

#### Preview

As you adjust the settings, a preview line at the bottom of the dialog shows exactly what will happen:

> "150 tabby pick(s) detected; 150 picks will remain."

This updates live as you change the range, so you can confirm the result before applying. If no tabby is detected in the range, the preview says so and nothing is removed.

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### How to Use It

#### Step 1: Set Your Range

Choose **All Picks** to remove tabby from the entire draft, or **Pick Range** to target a specific section.

#### Step 2: Apply

Click **Apply**. The tabby picks are removed and the remaining pattern picks are compacted together, closing the gaps.

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