Weave Assistant (Mobile)
What It Does
The Weave Assistant is your at-the-loom companion for weaving. On a tablet or phone propped by the loom, it displays your draft pick by pick — which treadles to press (or shafts to lift), the weft color for each pick, and a scrolling cloth preview that keeps your place. Advance with a tap, a foot pedal, or — with a TempoTreadle 3 on the loom — automatically, as it senses your actual treadling and confirms every shed.
It's the mobile companion to the desktop Weave Assistant, rebuilt as a full-screen, touch-friendly panel. Weaving progress, treadle mappings, and settings travel inside the .twa file, so you can move between desktop and mobile mid-project.
Opening the Weave Assistant
Open a draft first (the assistant works on the active draft).
Tap Tools on the rail (tablet) or the bottom dock (phone).
Under ASSISTANTS, tap Weave Assistant….
The Weave Assistant opens as a full-screen panel over your draft. To close it, tap the ✕ in the top-left corner — your place is kept.
The Weave Assistant Panel
From top to bottom:
Top bar — close (✕), the title, − / + zoom, a battery chip for the TempoTreadle box (when connected and battery-powered), and ⚙ Settings.
Toolbar — direction, Prev/Next, pick jump, section selector, and the ▾ View menu.
Treadling panel (left) — your draft's treadling, scrollable. Hide it (▾ View menu) for more cloth room.
Cloth preview — the woven cloth so far, pick by pick, right-anchored like the drawdown.
Treadles overlay — a floating card showing exactly which treadles to press now (details below).
Toolbar
Forward / Reverse (pill) The weaving direction. Forward advances to higher pick numbers; Reverse walks backward — use it when unweaving. The pill turns red in Reverse so you can't miss it. Flipping direction also repositions you sensibly: switching to Reverse steps back to the last pick you wove; switching to Forward steps ahead to the next unwoven one (wrapping at the section boundaries).
Prev / Next Step one pick back or forward without weaving.
Pick [ ] / [total] Go Type a pick number and tap Go to jump anywhere in the treadling. The total pick count is shown beside the field.
Section (only when your draft has weft sections) Jump between marked sections of the draft — the pick counter and previews follow.
▾ View (menu) The display toggles, all in one place:
Show treadle overlay (on by default) — the floating Treadles card.
Show large treadle overlay — maximizes the card with much larger text and boxes; glanceable from the bench, and the low-vision option.
Show Next & Prev treadle (on) — the Next-pick / Last-pick preview lines inside the overlay.
Show Interlacement (on) — the interlacement-style cloth rendering.
Color change alert (on) — chime when the next pick uses a different weft.
Show treadling panel (on) — the left panel; turn it off to give the cloth and overlay the full width.
− / + (top bar) Zoom the cloth preview and treadling panel.
The Treadles Overlay
The floating card is the heart of at-the-loom weaving. Drag it anywhere on the cloth area.
Pick number + weft color dot — the pick you're weaving now and the yarn to throw.
Treadle boxes — one box per treadle position:
Blue — press this one (expected for the current pick).
Green — pressed and correct (TempoTreadle connected).
Red — pressed but wrong (TempoTreadle connected).
Gray — not part of this pick.
Next ▸ / Last ◂ lines — one-line previews of the picks ahead and behind, each with its weft color dot and treadle numbers (toggle Show Next & Prev treadle in the ▾ View menu).
Treadle Mapping and the overlay
The boxes are laid out in physical position order and labeled with the treadle each position acts as under your Treadle Mapping:
With no mapping (or the default 1:1 map), boxes are simply treadles 1…N — nothing changes.
A position mapped OFF draws as an inert ✕ box with no number — or is hidden entirely if you check Hide OFF treadles in the mapping dialog.
A remapped position shows its mapped number and lights up when that treadle is expected. So if your foot expects the tabby on the far right, the far-right box says so.
Show large treadle overlay (▾ View menu) maximizes the card with much larger text and boxes — glanceable from the bench, and the low-vision option.
Weaving with TempoTreadle
With a TempoTreadle box on the loom, the assistant senses your actual treadling:
Press the correct treadle(s) and close the shed — an OK beep sounds and the assistant advances by itself.
Press a wrong treadle — an error beep warns you before you throw the pick.
Loom type (Settings → TempoTreadle) tunes the behavior: Multiple (Floor Loom), Single (Countermarch), or Table Loom (levers must match the expected shafts exactly, then it advances — no closed shed needed).
Connection lives in Settings → TempoTreadle: tap Set Up TempoTreadle… for the guided wizard (it searches your network continuously, and can walk the box onto your home Wi-Fi the first time — see the TempoTreadle 3 connection quickstart). Once paired, the address is remembered — and even if you leave setup early, the assistant keeps looking in the background and connects by itself when the box appears. The box's battery level shows in the top bar and in Settings, and firmware updates are offered right in the panel when available.
Tune mode (Settings → Tune) is where you verify the box senses each treadle: the grid is labeled with your treadle numbers — using the mapped numbers if you've remapped, with a red ✕ over any position mapped OFF — so what lights up matches what your feet do. Tapping Done with a box connected drops you straight into Weave mode, ready to treadle.
Treadle Mapping… (in the same section) opens the per-project mapping table: 16 physical positions, each with Status (On/Off), Maps to treadle, and a per-row Color Alert suppressor (turn it off on a tabby treadle so alternating weft colors don't chime every pick). Reset to 1:1 and Reverse presets are at the bottom, along with Hide OFF treadles in the Treadles overlay. The mapping is saved in the .twa, so it travels with the project.
No TempoTreadle? Everything still works as a visual guide — advance with the toolbar, a keyboard key, or a Bluetooth foot pedal.
Settings Sheet
Tap ⚙ to open Settings; tap Done to close. Each section is a collapsible card:
Woven Length A live length tracker and calculator built around two counters:
Pick Counter 1 — your primary woven-picks counter (shown bold).
Pick Counter 2 — a second, independent counter — use it for a section, a repeat, or "since I last measured."
Measure a stretch of actual cloth, enter the Measured length, choose which counter feeds the Picks value (the dropdown selects Pick Counter 1 or 2), and it computes your actual beat density — handy for predicting whether you'll hit your target length.
TempoTreadle Loom type, Set Up TempoTreadle… wizard, Connect / Tune, battery readout, auto power-off, firmware updates, and Treadle Mapping… — covered above.
Foot Pedal Keys (or pedal presses mapped to keys) for Next pick (default Space) and Prev pick (default Shift+Space). Tap Set, then press the key.
Sound Master volume, plus four chimes, each with its own enable switch, Test button, and the option to Browse… for your own sound file (or Reset to the built-in): the OK beep (correct treadle), error beep (wrong treadle), color-change chime (the next pick uses a different weft), and end-of-piece chime (you've wrapped past the last pick).
(The old Display card's toggles moved to the ▾ View menu on the toolbar.)
Typical Workflow
Open your draft, then Tools → ASSISTANTS → Weave Assistant….
(TempoTreadle) Tap ⚙ → TempoTreadle → Connect. First time: Set Up TempoTreadle… walks the box onto your Wi-Fi.
(Optional) Open Treadle Mapping… and match the draft's treadles to where your feet want them; turn Color Alert off on tabby rows.
Drag the Treadles overlay where you can see it from the bench, and turn on Show large treadle overlay (▾ View) if you want it glanceable.
Weave: press the blue treadle, throw the pick, beat — the assistant confirms and advances (or tap / pedal Next).
Listen for the color-change chime and check the Next ▸ line for what's coming.
Check Woven Length in Settings as you go; use the calculator against a real measurement.
Done for the day? Just close — your pick position, mapping, and progress are saved with the project.
Notes & Tips
Progress travels with the file. Pick position, treadle mapping, and Weave Assistant state round-trip through the
.twabetween mobile and desktop.Idle is fine. The app heartbeats the TempoTreadle box continuously, so the connection stays up while you wind bobbins or step away — no reconnect dance when you sit back down.
Number fields bring up the number keypad — the Pick field and the length-calculator boxes open the numeric soft keyboard.
Phone tips: turn off the treadling panel (▾ View menu) and let the Treadles overlay + Large mode carry the session.
Unweaving: flip Forward to Reverse (the pill turns red, and your position steps back to the last woven pick) — the same advance actions then walk backward through the treadling.
See also: Weave Assistant (Desktop), Thread Assistant (Mobile), and TempoWeave Mobile: Quick Start.
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