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# Applying Color to your Draft

Experiment with applying color by selecting a color from the Palette (Under Wif Palettte), and clicking or dragging with the straight draw tool above the threading and to the right of the  treadling.

Also experiment with scrolling the threading and treadling so that you can get to all the threads and picks.

Now, in this example we will use two ways to color the drafts. We will use 5 colors in the stripes.  If you have a Pro subscription, you can use the Color Repeats function in Step 5.  those with a Lite, Core or Pro subscription can color using Step 6.

### Step 5: Using the Color Repeats Function (Pro Only)

1. Click Design, then choose Color Repeats.
2. Add 3 times to have 3 color entires in the Color Pattern Box.
3. Click the Color Box on the first entry, and the colors in the Palette will be available for selection.  Scroll through the Palette colors and select your first color of Black. Click the next Color Box and select Charcoal.  Click the third Color Box and Click Timberwolf.
4. Next, click Mirror.  This pivots on the Timberwolf and adds the Charcoal and Black color entries.
5. Note that the repeats are all 1.  If you pressed apply, the mode at the bottom has "Repeats", so starting on thread 1 you would have individual warp ends alternating with these 5 color entires over and over. We want equal size columns for each color, so change the starting thread to 1, mode to Ratio, and ending thread 446.  Click Apply. Now use View
6. Add some numbers in the repeats column for each color. For example, you can enter 60 for the first 3 colors (total of 180) and 20 for the last two color. Leave the Mode at the default of "Ending" and the Times to the number of warp ends. Click Apply with Warp selected, then click Close. 
7. View your design.  You can use the zoom, or use the View Menu and select Cloth View and View Fabric (or shortcut key "V").
   1. Let's suppose you wanted the weft to be all Red. Go back into Color Repeats, click Clear, then Add a single color, select Red.  Change the selector to Weft. Check that the starting thread is 1 and ending is 680 (if you forget what the ending thread is, look at the bottom of the draft window where it shows the number of warp and weft threads).      *If you forget to change the selector from Warp to Weft and recolor the Warp red, simply select Undo on the Home Edit menu, or use Ctrl/Cmd-Z.*  

### Step 6: Drawing Color directly into the Draft 

This step does the same as Step 5, but with directly drawing color over the warp and weft threads.  The Color Repeats function is not available in Lite and Core.

1. Divide the total number of warp ends by the 5 stripes (446/5 = 89.2).  You'll want to color 89 warp ends on each color, then 90 warp ends on the last one.
2. Be sure to have the Straight Draw tool selected 
3. Select a color by clicking on a color in the WIF Palette (Black for the first stripe).   Start drawing with the color in the warp to warp end 89.   Select Charcoal in the palette and draw from thread 90 to 178. Keep adding 89 and repeat for the Timberwolf, Charcoal and finally Black.  
4. Use View, Cloth View to look at your draft.
5. Choose color Red and draw in the color for the weft.