Using this Documentation

If your window is not maximized, you may need to click the menu icon in the upper left corner of your screen to see the navigation panel for this documentation. This is a picture of the icon:

The documentation, under "Help By Menu Tabs", is organized based on the TempoWeave menu. Click the right arrow to expand options:

On the Project tab, for example, notice that Project Information can be expanded to a number of documents covering features:

Under general topics (scroll down on the left navigator panel to find), there are topics that are not related to specific menu items.

You can also search the documentation for any phrase or word using the Search box on the top right corner of this documentation:

There are videos throughout the documentation, as well as a collection under the . In addition, we are beginning to add E-Learning Mini-Lessons that focus on a specific weaving structure or topic and combine PDF and Videos in the lesson.

To print the documentation, the topic can be exported to PDF. Keep in mind that we continuously add new documentation, so a printed copy will quickly become out of date. The following screen show shows the "Export as PDF link on the right.

To export the entire documentation as a PDF, instead when clicking export as PDF, then click the All Pages button on the lower side of the left hand panel. You will receive a message requesting a click to extend for another 50 pages. Note that the full PDF will be very large.

This documentation can be viewed in standard or dark mode. To change the mode, look to the bottom right of the screen for the sun and moon icons:

About TempoWeave Designer

TempoWeave Designer is an application that gives the designer a platform to create weaving designs that include the draft, colors and project calculation information. TempoWeave creates the design file according to the WIF standard; Weaving designs generated to this standard can be opened and used in most any weaving design software.

The goal of TempoWeave is to provide the weaver with useful tools to quickly generate weaving designs for projects and have the freedom to easily play with structure and color.

While TempoWeave is very helpful for any weaver designing projects, it's especially useful for users of TempoTreadle. With TempoTreadle, having a repeat of the threading and treadling with all the color changes is very useful for easier setup and weaving.

TempoWeave runs on the Windows operating system and does not run on an iPad. For hardware requirements, see this page: .

TempoWeave may be purchased on https://www.tempoweave.com

This documentation assumes the weaver has familiarity with the format of weaving drafts. For additional weaving information, especially for new weavers, see this area of learning.loftyfiber.com:

A file refers to a weaving design file. You can have multiple files (designs) open at once in TempoWeave. To see techniques to view and switch between multiple designs open at once, see Window.

Two files are saved for each design. One has the ".wif" extension and the other the ".twa" extension. See File Names and TempoWeave for more information.

The File Menu is where new weaving drafts can be started, existing drafts can be opened, files can be saved, renamed and exported.

The recent designs, folders and browse functions provide methods to quickly access weaving designs on your computer, thumb or cloud drive.

The "Cut" function on the home menu removes the selected threads and collapses the space. The following example shows warp ends, but the same Cut function works in the weft threads.

For example, two warp ends on shafts 4 and 5 are selected:

After clicking "Cut", warp ends 12 and 13 are removed as shown below. Note that the selection box is now around the next two warp ends. This selection can be used, or press escape to remove the selection box.

Home | Select and Select Special

There are two selection tools. The most commonly used is Select; simply click and drag around an area in the warp, tie-up, weft or color bars to mark. After selecting, there are various options such as copy and cut to work with the selected threads. Keyboard shortcut for Select is "A"

Select Special allows you to click and drag to select; when the mouse is released, a box pops up with options as shown below allowing you to extend the selected rectangle through the end thread, through a selected thread, or select all threads. This option is especially useful when selecting a large range of threads that cannot be easily selected. Keyboard shortcut for Select Special is "Q" (letter above the shortcut for select).

Warp Invert "flips" the threading such that thread 1 moves to the highest available shaft, thread 2 to the next highest, and so on until the highest shaft threads are moved to shaft 1.

First select the warp threads that are to be inverted. To select all warp threads, using ctrl-A may be easier than drawing the selection box around all the wrap threads.

Another way to do the invert on a selected section is to Right-Click and select Invert:

The warp group has options to transform or change the warp threads in several ways. The drop down under Warp has repeating and transformation options. Some of the same options are available with the right click on an area of selected warp.

The plot on network and amalgamation also act on the warp threads.

Some of the same options (invert, mirror, reverse, shift up and shift down) are available on the warp drop down as well as right click. When doing repeated actions on the same selection, it is suggested that the warp options drop down be used instead of doing this from the right click; the selected area will stay selected when using the warp options drop down.

To cut out a range of threads, select the threads and press Cut; the selected threads will be removed and the area collapsed. To leave the area open (threads removed, but the space available), hold the shift key down when pressing Cut. The delete key (or shift-delete) works the same on selected areas as Cut.

Many of the options for making design changes simpler are on the design menu. Note that the design menu has areas for tie-up, warp and that have many powerful options.

Some of the operations in the design menu can work across warp and weft, such as the ability to repeat sections.

Section Assembly and Block Substitution facilitate the generation of new drafts, and are initiated on the Design menu.

Tools are an area of the menu that perform various operations on a weaving draft, making it simpler to do things such as tromp-as-writ (or weave as drawn-in), spreading the warp over multiple shafts, creating a folded double cloth and more.

Sometimes it's not clear if a function on the menu is a tool or a helping for design. When in doubt, check both the Tools and the Design menu!

The Export Function allows the building of an export for TempoTreadle that prepares a compliant design and the associated cached files that allow for fast loading of a project into TempoWeave.

A special version of the WIF file is prepared that strips out any comments (comments over 32 characters cause an issue in TempoTreadle), checks for file names that are too long or have invalid characters and verifies that the number of warp ends and picks are not beyond the maximum number. Certain information that TempoTreadle does not need is also stripped out of the WIF for faster loading. The name of the WIF has an appended "_tt" to avoid any confusion with the original WIF file that is stored on your computer.

The Export function allows the selection of the Drive letter for your micro-sd card, then the creation and copy of the files for TempoWeave are written to the micro-sd card.

The following screen screen options are shown for the Export.

Browse to Select: Click to select the USB drive from on your PC. Be sure to have the USB adapter with the micro-sd card inserted before clicking Browse to Select.

The Export Folder defaults to the location of the WIF on the PC being prepared for Export.

The WIF name is the same as the currently loaded WIF, with the addition of "_tt" after the draft name.

Include Draw Down Image is checked on by default. This prepares a small thumbnail image of the draft that will be shown as an option to view on the TempoTreadle home screen.

Include Load Cache is checked on by default. This prepares the file for a quick load on the project WIF file.

Home | Undo

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl-Z

Undo backs out the most recent change. If greyed out, there have been no changes to reverse. There are some changes that do not support Undo; If you need to recover to a prior save or major change point, you can open the Design Version History and open a prior version.

Home | Redo

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl-Y

Reverse the most recent "Undo".

To cut out a range of threads and leave the area open (threads removed, but the space available), hold the shift key down when pressing Cut on the Home Menu.

The keyboard short cut for Cut will also work (pressing Shift - Delete) to cut and leave the space open.

In the screenshot below, the threads at the cursor position were Cut out and the space is open and available to use for pasting or clicking in warp threads.

The first options on the Home menu are covered under the File options.

New, Save As, Save: Creating, Saving and Naming Files

Open and Recent: Finding and Opening Files

Print: Print

Close and Exit: File Close and Exit

The weft group has options to transform or change the weft threads in several ways.

The Weft option allows options to change face, mirror, flip, reverse, fill, and shift weft picks.

The Plot on Network is a powerful tool that allows placing a design line on a network, or in the case of a liftplan, allows two weaving presets to be selected and a ribbon width or the design line.

Combine weft supports operations to overlay and interleave into the weft area.

Heddle counts are based on warp ends in the WIF.

When designing using section assembly, check the heddle counts in the generated WIF, not the master.

Selecting Color Pattern Draw on the Design Menu allows you to select a sequence of colors from the color palette and draw with that sequence. The "Draw with Color Pattern" needs to be switched on as shown below, then the drawing tools used in the color bars for warp and weft will use the defined sequence.

In addition to defining a series of colors planned for warp and weft, this tool can also simulate a variegated yarn, although not as accurately as defining a varieted yarn in the Yarn Catalog (upcoming feature).

When ready to stop drawing with the color pattern, simply click the "on" bar to turn this off and return to drawing color with the currently selected color from the palette. Closing the dialog box and reopening will have the last used colors available. Use the Clear button to remove all the colors.

Flip

The Flip function reverses the columns in the selected area:

• The contents of the first column move to the last,

• The second column moves to the second-to-last, and so on.

You can think of it as rotating the selection around a vertical axis, like viewing it in a mirror placed down the center.

The current WIF shafts and treadles is set on the first tab of the Project Information selection. The number of shafts and treadles initially defaults to the settings under Home | Settings.

The Multi-Treadle option, if checked, allows for more than one treadle to be pressed at a time. For lift plans, this is always checked. When weaving with a tie-up, if you don't require pressing more than one treadle at a time (such as with a skeleton tie-up), leave the setting unchecked for easier entry of the treadling sequence as the cursor will advance to the next pick after each number is keyed or selection is clicked.

Grid options default to those specified in the default Settings. The spacing of the grids, or to turn them off, can be changed and saved for the project in the following screen. Note that the grid options are shown on the display as well as are used on the Print Options for Threading and Treadling.

The Rotate Draft function is very simlar to turn draft, except that the treadling is rotated when duplicated in the threading.

Turning a draft will rotate the draft so that the threading becomes the treadling and vica-versa.

Suppose you wanted to weave the following draft using one shuttle, instead of alternating the two colors in the weft. Note that this draft using 10 treadles.

Clicking the Turn Draft Icon one time:

Yields the following:

Now the draft requires 10 shafts and uses 8 treadles. Look at the tie-up, it also has turned accordingly.

This video shows two ways to bring in a new Image, either through the Open Image icon over the Image Pale or the Add to Library option. Also simple editing of the Profile generated from the Image is displayed. Copying and Pasting into the image, then shifting the image is shown.

Reverse

The Reverse function performs two actions on the selected area:

1. Flips the values in each column (e.g., top becomes bottom), and

2. Reverses the order of the rows, so the last row becomes the first, and vice versa.

This is similar to rotating the selection around a horizontal axis—as if flipping it upside down.

This icon is available on the Project Tab.

Select whether to show floats only in the warp direction, weft direction or both.

Set the float values to any length. The default is 4.

Floats can be shown on the front, back or both using the "Cloth side" setting.

When "Show Floats" is clicked, a listing of each float matching the selected criteria is shown. In addition, the floats identified are surrounded by a red line in the drawdown when the identified float location is clicked.

By clicking on any of the identified positions, the drawdown will be repositioned to show the selected float.

Video using an Image - Plotting on the Network

When winding warp chains or preparing sectional warps, this feature prepares a printout that can be taken to the warping board or reel to help with accurately warping the planned colors.

Based on the threading and colors in the WIF, a screen similar to the following is presented. The print button can be used for a printout.

In the example above, the WIF (starting at thread 1) calls for 32 Marine Blue warp threads, followed by colors Teal and Fluorescent Green held together for 16 passes (32 ends), etc.

As it is very common to use alternating colors, TempoWeave identifies these alternating pairs of 2 colors to make it easier to accurately wind color pairs as well as singles.

A later feature will detect more color patterns, such as repeating colors of 4.

The Print Project button is available on all of the Project Information tabs. It is also available under File | Print.

It is a multi-page report, a sample of one page is shown below

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When a profile graphic, plus any additional ones needed for the selected structure's block substitution, that graphic can be placed directly into the tie-up.

However, if a profile graphic fits in width, but not length, then it needs to be pasted into a liftplan, then converted to a tie-up before it can converted with block substitution.

The following video shows a profile graphic that is too long to paste directly in the tieup. This graphic is adjusted so that it will fit, along with the two extra shafts needed for tie-downs in the summer and winter structure, and also has room for background in order to put spacing between the graphics.

This video covers how to estimate yardage calculations before you have a complete design. It also helps explain the impact of some of the features in Project Planning

If using a raddle with smaller divisions of space, you may find this calculator helpful to find a pattern to spread the warp such that the warp is spread to the project's weaving width.

This function is very similar to the . The dents per inch or centimeter may be selected for the raddle.

If the drop down is selected beside the Raddle field, a list of sley patterns is presented for either the LoftyFiber 4-dents per inch raddle (if "in" is selected) or the Louet built-in raddle (if "cm" is selected.

In the above example, a sley pattern of 6-6-6-8 is selected using the LoftyFiber raddle. If clicked, this pattern and raddle selection will be saved with the project wif.

When using a raddle to warp back to front, it's important not to split threading groups. Be sure to put a muliple of the threading groups in each dent when determining the spread. For example, if you wound your warp with two threads at a time, always use 2 or a multiple of two in each dent to avoid splitting the threading group.

If preparing to weave on a Louet loom using the built-in raddle, put .5 in the raddle dents per centimeter (cm) as shown below.

The Tie-Up Group has a tie-up icon with drop down options as well as the capability to click a Diagonal icon to generate a tie-up. The options shown under tie-up may also be accessed by selecting a region of the tie-up and using the right-click.

Changing the Tie-Up by Selecting and Right Click

Note: Network drafting is a method of weaving curved shapes on a shaft loom, freeing the designer from the traditional limitations of block designs. This documentation explains how to use the tools in TempoWeave to apply the process.

For a full course on Network Drafting in TempoWeave—including the underlying theory and numerous examples—see Alice Schlein’s self-paced course. For more information see

Plot on Network Warp uses the threading and plots it on the network based on an initial that helps produce cloth without long floats. Combined with the weft and tie-up (if used), this allows the creation of curved shapes that can be woven on looms that would not ordinarily have enough shafts.

The usual starting point is to draw a design line in the warp, often using Line Draw or Free Draw (see Draw Options). Be sure not to leave any blank warp threads.

Once the design line is drawn, select the icon for Plot on Network - Warp.

Home | Copy and Paste

Keyboard Shortcuts

TempoWeave saves copies of your weaving design in case you ever need to refer to, or retrieve a prior version of your draft.

Versions (snapshots) of your weaving design are saved each time you save your design as well as when certain transformative functions are performed, such as Create Double Cloth. Prior versions of your draft can be accessed by clicking the version history icon. The date and time the snapshot was taken is shown, along with the path and file name. Any of the versions can be selected and opened; if needed, they can be saved as a new name or overwrite the current version of your draft.

Version history is based on the name you give your draft, not the file location. If you have multiple designs with the same name, you'll see all of those designs in the version history. They can be distinguised by the location. The reason TempoWeave works this way is to preserve version history even if you move your file to another directory.

Thickness of threads defaults to "4". The range of thickness values are from 1 to 16, with 16 being the largest.

Individual threads can be resized by clicking into the area above color. To either view a summary of all thickness, or apply a pattern of values, this menu option is used.

The first selection is warp or weft. Once selected, the current thickness panel at the right shows the thickness of each thread; a scroll bar may be needed to view all the threads.

If a change is desired, note the starting thread (default is 1), then enter either the number of repeats for the pattern or the ending thread.

The following screen shows selecting a pattern of thickness; use the drop down arrows to select the thickness number. If Size 2 and Size 8 are selected and Apply Thickness Pattern is pressed, then the threads will alternate between size 2 and 8.

Yarn Reqs (requirements)

This tab allows the weaver to calculate the yardage/meters of the warp and weft required a project. For a breakdown on requirements by color, see the section.

Length of Warp should be entered as the length of the warp planned. To assist in deciding on the length of warp to wind, you can use the dimensions tab to view the minimum warp length required.

Override Dimensions allow the weaver to set the width in the reed and woven length to a different dimension than reflected in the current wif. This can be useful, for example, if your WIF has warp ends that you plan to repeat 40 times. This way you can have the correct amount of yarn calculated. Similarly, the total length to be woven for the warp can also be entered as an override.

The Warp Spread function is designed for weavers who have more shafts available than are needed for their design and want to avoid physically moving heddles. This function can be applied to either a Tie-Up or a LiftPlan.

The algorithm works by first asking you to select the “From Shaft”—the shaft you want to spread. Then, under “To Shafts,” you specify the same shaft plus any additional shafts to act as its “aliases.”

For example:

• If you choose From Shaft 1 and To Shafts 1, 5, the first warp thread assigned to Shaft 1 remains there.

The technique of Warp Amalgamation is supported with this simple process. The Warp Amalgamation tool lets you select a section of the drawdown and paste it into the warp threading.

In this example, a 1/7 satin tie-up and a straight draw threading and treadling has been entered as the draft.

With the selection tool, an area has been selected from the drawdown. While dragging, the rectangle is solid green; when the mouse is released, the selected area is shaded green as shown below. Draw from the top down; you are limited to no more rows than there are shafts.

Next, click where you want the warp threads copied or replaced by clicking on any warp end in the warp. You can choose to overwrite existing threading or place the cursor at the end of the warp as shown below. Click the Warp Amalgamation button and the translation overwrites using the selected drawdown area into the warp threads.

This video shows the use of the Mask and Clear Mask operations for the Image panel.

The project information screen is broken into Tabs. See the pages below for descriptions of each tab.

Add Tabby

The most common use of Add Tabby is to insert a thread after each weft pick to accommodate a tabby pick in designs such as overshot or summer and winter.

When the Add Tabby icon is selected, a screen similar ot the following is presented. The default tabby 1 and 2 treadles are the highest treadles in the tie-up; these treadles can be changed to any other treadles.

When adding Tabby picks, your tie-up may not have the tabby treadles; if that's the case, add the two tabby treadles so that they can be selected. Additional treadles may be added in Project Information | Project Shafts and Treadles.

In the following screenshot, tabby treades have been added as treadles 5 and 6. When Add Tabby is selected, the system defaults to the last two treadles 5 and 6.

Copying Between Drafts

You can copy all or part of the threading, treadling, or tie-up from one draft to another using the standard Copy and Paste commands.

In the example below:

• A new weaving design is started in the left window.

Tromp as Writ is a weaving term that means treadle as written in the weaving draft; the shaft numbers used in the threading are used to generate the treadle numbers in the weft.

In TempoWeave, when this option is selected from the Tools command, you are first given a prompt as to whether or not to include structure only, structure and color or color only. Structure replacement means that the shaft number for each thread becomes the corresponding treadle for each weft pick. If there were more weft picks than warp threads prior to executing Tromp as Writ with structure, then the weft picks after executing the commond will equal the number of warp threads. If color only is copied, the treadling is not changed.

In the following example, tromp as writ has been applied to structure and color to produce a perfectly square cloth where the warp and weft colors as are in the same sequence and the treadle numbers for each pick are the same as the shaft numbers.

First save your design under another name using "File | Save As" . You may want to add "threading" to the file name to avoid confusion. Next, do Tromp as Writ with Structure and Color and save your threading draft.

While threading the loom, press the dobby treadle for each warp thread, raising a single shaft at a time, verifying that the color called for i the color you are threading through the heddle.

Sync Color and Thickness Options

The Sync Color and Sync Thickness options, available on the Home menu, are enabled by default.

• When these options are

The purpose of mirroring is to provide a symmetrical mirror image of the warp threads. This function adds the same number of warp threads, minus one, to the left of the warp or selected region. This can be thought of as pivoting on the leftmost thread.

Warp Mirror Selected

Select any threads within the warp to mirror. Notice that the mirroring overwrites any existing threads. If this is not desired, then i the number of threads needed prior to mirroring.

Warp Mirror All

To mirror all the warp threads, click mirror all.

Home | Insert and Cut Menu Options

To insert threads that have previously been copied, establish the cursor position by clicking at the point where the copied threads are to be inserted. The insert will happen before the cursor.

In the following example warp threads 21 and 22 (threaded on shafts 5 and 6) are selected.

Click the Copy button on the Home screen or press Ctrl-C.

Next, click where you want the threads to be inserted. Shown below, the cursor position is established at warp thread 9.

Next click Insert on the Home Menu. Now, as shown below, the two threads that were copied on shafts 5 and 6 are now inserted and reside on warp ends 9 and 10 as shown below.

This video is a demo of using and maintaining yarns in the Yarn Catalog. Features covered in include Yarn Lines, My Yarns, Creating your own colors, Clear Palette, Adding colors to the palette and replacing color.

File | Close

The File | Close option closes the current design window. Be sure to save changes unless you intend to discard the most recent updates since the last save. A reminder to save appears if changes exist that have not been saved, but it's a good idea to remember to save regardless!

The Threshold Tool adjusts the sensitivity to determine which pixels convert to black or white in the mapped profile.

Mirror and Mirror All

• Mirror: Applies the mirror function to the selected region of weft.

Arrange treadles allows the weaver to place the treadles in a new order. This feature may be convenient for weavers who like to "walk the treadles". The reordering does not change the resulting cloth.

A listing of the current treadles, 1 to "n" where "n" is the highest treadle number in the current WIF is shown. The numbers can be arranged in any sequence. When ready to make the moves, click "Reorder Treadles". The tie-up and use of the treadle in the weft is then moved according to the "To Treadle" sequence. Each treadle must be used once or an error message will be presented.

Profile Images that are created from Images in the left panel may be edited and saved for future use. This vieo shows how to edit and save a profile image.

The project notes section allows the weaver to update a title, the author of the draft and fill in notes about the draft. At the bottom of the notes section, the source reflects the weaving software and version from the last save.

Usage of the notes section is optional. The Title will be used on the Printouts such as Threading and Treadling.

A caution for exporting a WIF for TempoTreadle - no single line of notes can exceed 32 characters. When the Export for TempoTreadle features is finished, the Project Notes will be stripped out for the TempoTreadle file. Until that time, it's best to save a version for TempoTreadle without Project Notes and a file name of 8-characters or less.

If you are using the export function in TempoWeave, saving a version without project notes is not necessary. The export function will take care of this for you.

The weft color plan counts the number of picks per color and produces a printout similar to the Warp Winding Plan. This can be useful when the treadling is easy to memorize, and the weaver wants to count picks of each color.

Home | Insert and Remove Thread

Insert and Remove Individual Threads

The purpose of this tool is to help the weaver find a sleying sequence that works for the reed to approximate the desired Sett. In addition, the reed and sley pattern that is chosen is saved along with your project for future reference.

This function is accessible in two places in TempoWeave. One is on the Tools Menu, the other is in the Project Information | Planning | Setup Screen.

The number corresponding to the dents per inch, or for metric, dents per 10 cm, may be directly typed into the field labeled Reed. Also, the drop down may be used to select from a list of reeds.

Both Imperial and Metric reeds are supported; a Metric reed may be used on a project where the default units are Imperial and visa-versa. The button to the right of the Reed number indicates whether the reed is metric or imperial.

Selecting a Reed and Sley Pattern

If the drop down beside the Reed number is selected, a list of reeds and common sley patterns is presented. The scroll bar is used to view options for various setts. The Sley pattern has a Zero when dents are to be skipped. Both the ends per inch and ends per centimeter sett numbers are displayed. The UOM is either "I" or "M" for imperial or metric, and is filtered in the drop down based on the selection above of "in" or "10 cm".

In the example above, once the selected record is clicked, the reed size and sley pattern are brought into the project.

Entering a Sley Pattern and Calculating Sett

To use, first put in density of your reed. In the following example, 10 is entered and the "inch" field is selected to indicate 10 dents per inch.

The usage of this calculator involves trial and error. Put in a pattern and click Calculate. You'll be shown the effective ends per inch and ends per cm. One will typically do this several times, tweaking to get the exact SETT they are looking for.

If a pattern space is left empty, then it ignores the entry. A zero in the entry means that the space is skipped. The calculator assumes that the pattern entered will be repeated;

Another usage of this tool is to calculate the average ends per inch when using the "cram and dent" technique. In the example below, two warp ends are sleyed in a dent, skipping the next, putting 4 ends in the next dent and skipping a dent for an effective 15 epi in a 10-dent reed.

Finding a Pattern for Spreading in a Raddle

You can also key in a sley pattern and have TempoWeave calculate the sett. When the Calculate button is clicked, TempoWeave will use the Reed you have selected, and use any numbers (including 0 for skipped dents) and show the calculated ends per inch as well as the ends per centimer.

This pattern and reed selection will be saved along with the WIF as a record of your project settings.

Calculating Average Ends per Inch

Some projects use different size threads or leave spaces in the reed. This calculator is also convenient to calculate and average ends per inch / ends per cm.

Sett as calculated in the Reed Sley Calculator vs Project Sett

The Sett that you define in Project Setup is independent of the calculated sett derived and saved in the Reed Sley Calculator. Be sure that you update the Project Sett on the Project Setup Screen if the sett is changing based on the reed and sley pattern chosen; normally these should be the same. The Project Sett is the value used in calculations throughout TempoWeave.

The Echo function, found on the Design Tab, takes the current threading and integrates parallel threading(s) creating an echo of the current design line. Color can also be changed for the original pattern line and the generated echoes.

For example, the following design line was drawn using the Free Free draw tool from the home tab:

The following screen shows a selection of Echo-2 (meaning that a single echo will be inserted into the threading, producing 2 parallel lines) and a shift of 4. The original pattern line will be purple and the echo line magenta as shown with the color selections on the right labelled pattern and 2nd Echo. To insert a color, click from the color palette to change the current color then click in the square with the label on the Echo function.

Now click Apply and the following threading results:

Note that the second Echo is always 4 shafts higher than the original pattern line, wrapping if necessary.

Also note that the original colors are always replaced in the warp according to the selection in the Echo function.

Currently the limit for the number of parallel lines is 6 and the shift is 16.

The echo function only works on Warp Threads at this time. Consider using the Turn Draft function if you need to have an echo line in the treadling.

Note that this function can also be used on a design that has been plotted on a network, as described in Marian Stubenitsky's book, Weaving with Echo and Iris.

Sections can be marked over any span of warp or weft threads. These marked sections are used later in section assembly to generate a new WIF.

The section marker tool is on the design menu. This tool is similar to the selection tool, except that when you drag across threads a section is recorded and the section is highlighted in a color for easy identification.

The following screen shows sections marked in the threading. Hovering over one of the section, the popup shows the name of the section, and location (warp threads 19-23).

The default names of the section start with "Section" plus a number. The section can be easily renamed, deleted or modified. When hovering over the section using the section marker tool, right click to edit (see Section Editor below). Alternatively you can double click the section in the panel under available secdtions.

The section editor can also be accessed from section assembly by double clicked the section in the available sections area.

If you inadvertently draw a 1-thread section, it's difficult to select and right click it to remove it. Instead, click Section Assembly to view the sections and double click the section you want to delete or modify. The following example shows selecting a Weft marked section after double clicking:

The function can be to modify marked sections to add and remove threads. Other sections below will move accordingly and preserve their relative start and end thread. With the section being modified, you may need to change the start or end location in the section editor after modifying the number of threads in the section.

The maximum number of marked sections is 80 for warp and 80 for weft.

To use the tie-up actions, first select the area in the tie-up to be modified. The selection tool can be used to select a region of the tie-up or the entire tie-up. A short cut when selecting the entire tie-up is to use ctrl-A with your cursor anywhere in the tie-up box.

Either the options via the design menu or right click can be used. In the following example, a region within the tie-up is selected and the right click options are shown. The selection region will remain selected so that repeated actions can be made without needing to reselect the region.

Tie-Up Actions Examples. (same when selected from design menu in the tie-up area, or with the right click in the tie-up area)

For the selected rectange (original)

Clear - all tie-up entries are cleared in the selected region

Change Face - selected numbers are cleared, non-selected are entered:

Invert - rows are inverted such that top row is moved to the bottom, next to top to the second from bottom, etc.

Reverse - in thie action, the 4th column of the selected region becomes the 1st, the 3rd column the 2nd, the 2nd column the third, and the 1st column the fourth. If this action is taken twice, the second time it returns to the original.

Shift Right - everything in the selection is shifted right by one column with wrap. If you hold down the shift key while performing this action, the wrap action is turned off and as columns shift, they will become blank.

The fourth shift rigth returns to the original before shift.

Shift Left - this is exactly like Shift Right, except that the shifting goes to the left. As tihe Shift Right, the columns in the selected region shift and wrap. If the shift key is held down when this option is selected, no wrap will occur.

Shift Up - this option shifts the bottom row of the selected region up by one row on each click of Shift Up. As with the other options, the region remains selected so that shift up can be selected again. Also, as with the other options, the shift up action wraps such taht the top most row becomes the bottom row with each shift up. If the Shift Key is held while performing this action, no wrap occurs.

Shift Down - exactly like shift up except that each row in the selected region goes down one row at a time, wrapping back to the top of the region unless the shift key is held down when selecting shift down.

Note that there are additional tie-up transformation tools on the Design menu. See for more features involving copying by step values to other treadles.

Home | Draw Options

The drawing tools are used in the warp thread section, tie-up and weft section. The drawing tools are also used in the color bar. The color bar is over the warp threads and to the right of the weft threads.

If a dialog panel is open, such as Section Assembly, the drawing tools will not work. Close the dialog panel to restore access.

If the selection tool or section marker tool is selected, remember that none of the regular drawing tools are activated.

Using the select and copy functions, areas of warp and weft can be selected and copied. The Design Repeats provides options that can make copying faster.

Quick Repeats Tab

Starting with a simple example, the Quick Repeats tab allows a quick selection of all the Warp and/or Weft and allows a specified number of repeats.

In the above example the Warp is to be repeated 4 times and will measure 3.75 inches (based on ends per inch/cm from Project Information | Planning | Setup). Similarly you can see the length, calculated a 7 inches in the above example, based on 6 repeats and picks per inch/cm in the project setup. Once Apply is clicked, the changes are reflected in the design.

Tip: Ctrl-Z will undo the copy.

Warp Repeat Tab

The second tab provides options for repeating warp. This option is also accessible from the

Weft Repeat Tab

The weft repeat option can is documented here: .

The Interleave Warp icon is on the Design Screen in the Warp Group:

Interleave Warp allows you to merge a threading sequence into a draft from another draft (or the same draft) and optionally shift the interleaved threads up by a specified number of shafts.

Starting Thread: You can start the interleave process at the beginning, or at a specified warp thread.

Shift Up: The Shift Up value will add to the shaft from the thread that you are interleaving from. If the Wrap field is checked, the shaft will wrap around to shaft one when the maximum shaft for the current draft is exceeded. If Wrap is not checked, shafts will be added to accomodate the shift.

Wrap: If Wrap is unchecked, then threads being brought in from the Interleave From draft will be added on the same shaft as in the From draft; if the shaft is greater than the maximum shaft in draft that is being worked on, then the number of shafts will be automatically changed to accommodate the highest shaft. Likewise, Wrap is unchecked and the Shift Up calculates a higher shaft, the number of shafts will be automatically changed.

When Wrap is checked, the number of shafts will not change in the draft being worked on. Whether shift is used or not, the new shaft value will be calculated and wrap when the highest shaft is exceeded.

Repeat Through End: When the number of warp threads in the "Interleave FROM" draft is less than the number in the working draft, this option, when checked, will wrap back to thread one in the From draft to continue the interleave process through the end.

Interleave Color: When checked, will copy the color from the "From" draft.

Interleave Thickness: When checked, will copy the thickness value from the "From" draft.

Undo / Apply / Accept

Either the Undo or Apply button will be available. After applying a change, the Undo button will back out the change, and allow the Apply button to be available. To keep the changes, click Accept. Clicking Accept does not save the draft.

Example of Interleave:

Notice that a draft has been selected using the drop down "Interleave From". You will need to have your "From" WIF open in another window. It may be helpful to switch back and for using the "eye" icon to be sure you have the correct "from" draft selected.

Some people may prefer to tile the two drafts on the screen using the Window function so both are visibile.

In this situation, the From draft looks the same as the "to" draft above.

If Apply is clicked with the settings as shown above (start at 1, no wrap), the following is the result:

After clicking Undo, and using the settings:

The following results from a Shift of 4 and no wrap:

Dimensions

The Dimensions tab helps determine the number of warp ends and weft picks required to end up with the final size of the woven item as well as the length of warp required to weave all the items. The calculations do not change the weaving draft, but give the weaver an idea of how many warp and weft ends to design and how long the warp needs to be wound. The drivers also impact the yarn requirements calculation for the project.

Calculation Drivers

The calculation drivers are on the upper left. Initially these values are all zero. Any or all of these can be entered to impact the calculations.

Draw-In -the difference in width in the reed and the fell of the cloth.

Warp Take-Up - this percentage increases the minimum warp yardage requirements based on the bending of the warp yarns as they are woven.

Weft Take-Up - this percentage increases the weft yardage requirements based on the bending of the weft yarns as they are woven

Loom Waste - inches/cm not woven at the start and end of the warp

Shrinkage Width and Length - this is the expected shrinkage after wet finishing the cloth

Current WIF:

Current WIF Warp Ends - the current value is automatically populated from the current draft. If the warp ends in the WIF do not represent the entire project (such as having the warp ends repeated a number of times), an override width in the reed can be entered on the next yarn requirements tab so that the yarn requirements will calculation properly.

Current Width in Reed The current value is a calculation of Warp Ends in the WIF divided by the Ends per Inch (or Ends per CM). .

Weft Picks The number of weft picks in the current WIF.

Woven Length The number of weft picks times the Picks per Inch or Centimeter.

Finished Estimate Width and Length The calculation drivers are used against the current WIF to determine the estimated finished size of the piece.

Target Finished Size per Piece (right column)

Entry of the Target Width and Length optional. The purpose of entering the Target Size is to calculate the size requirements needed for the draft, such as number or warp ends, woven and warp length, so that the finished piece will meet the target. When entering a target width and length, these should be the size of a finished piece after wet finishing. Allowance for hems, if any, should be included in the target length.

Notice that the "No Pieces" is the number of the target size pieces you plan to weave.

If you plan to do some sampling on the warp, enter the inches planned to weave. Fringe is listed separately as it is not woven, is not subject to take-up and does not consume weft. If your fringe will consume loom waste, there is no need to enter fringe separately in this section, but when planning multiple pieces, the warp that consumed that is not a part of the waste can be important for the calculations.

For example, suppose you are planning to weave two scarves that will be 70" long by 8" wide and have a 6-inch fringe on each end. Enter these values in the target size area, enter estimates in the calculation drivers and click "Calculate Dimensions" . The Size Requirements for Target area will reflect the calculations as well as current WIF estimated final size.

Size Requirements for Target - Calculations

No. Pieces defaults to 1 if left blank or set to 0

Number Warp Ends for Target Width = Req'd Width * EPI/EPCM.

Req'd Width in Reed = (Finished Width + DrawIn) * (1 + Shrinkage in Width)

Minimum Warp Length = (((Woven Length per Piece * (1+Takeup Pct)) + Fringes)) * No. Pieces) + (Sampling * (1+TakeupPct)) + Loom Waste (shown in yds/meters)

Woven Length Per Piece = Target Finished Length * (1 + Shrinkage in Length).

Number of Picks per Piece = Woven Length per Piece * EPI/EPCM

Total Woven Length = Woven Length per Piece * No. Pieces in Project + Sampling (shown in yards or meters)

This information totals the number of warp and weft threads in the project, as well as the warp and weft yards required by color, and a total yardage by color.

Note: Network drafting is a method of weaving curved shapes on a shaft loom, freeing the designer from the traditional limitations of block designs. This documentation explains how to use the tools in TempoWeave to apply the process.

For a full course on Network Drafting in TempoWeave—including the underlying theory and numerous examples—see Alice Schlein’s self-paced course. For more information see Networking Drafting and Amalgamation Class with Alice Schlein

Plot on Network Weft uses the treadling sequence or liftplan in the weft plots it on the network based on an initial that helps produce cloth without long floats. Combined with the threading in the warp (possibly also plotted on a network) allows the creation of curved shapes that can be woven on looms that would not ordinarily have enough shafts.

The usual starting point is to draw a design line in the weft, often using Line Draw or Free Draw (see Draw Options).

Plotting on a Network in Weft with a Tie-Up

When a tie-up is used, only one initial is available for selection. Any design line in the weft may then be applied to the network.

Use the drop-down menu to select the network initial. The dimensions of the initial are displayed, but these are typically left unchanged unless you are creating a custom initial.

Plotting on a Network in Weft with a LiftPlan

When working with a liftplan, the Network Drafting feature provides two pattern presets. These can be thought of as the background (Pattern Preset A) and the foreground pattern (Pattern Preset B). The selected pixels in the liftplan are filled using Pattern Preset B, while the unselected areas remain as Pattern Preset A.

You can also adjust the pattern line width. Using a single-pixel pattern line with an increased ribbon width often produces greater detail in the woven structure.

To apply your selections, click Plot Weft. This will generate the design based on the chosen presets and ribbon width. If you change your mind, select Cancel to return to the main design menu.

When plotting on the network, you can use Undo (Ctrl+Z) to revert to the weft prior to plotting.

Video Example of Plotting on the Network with Images in a Liftplan

In this example, the new Image Processing feature in TempoWeave is used along with Plot on Network Weft in a liftplan to make the images ready to weave. See this video using Coffee Cup images on a 32-shaft liftplan.

Using the design lines created in the prior example, the Telescoped 8-shaft design line is plotted on a network (settings shown at right). After clicking apply, the weft was generated iwth a tromp-as-writ action on the tools menu.

Weft repeats has the same options as Warp Repeats. A From and To Thread field allow typing of the weft numbers. Alternatively, the selection tool can be used to select weft threads. When the selection tool is used, the from and to threads will automatically be filled in.

The "To" area allowed the starting thread to be filled in where the repeats will begin. By default, the start To thread will be equal to the from "to" plus 1.

Enter the number of repeats.

Once the number of repeats is entered, the ending thread for the repeats will be calculated and the length of the entire WIF will be automatically shown. Note that this is not necessarly the length of the repeating area.

The option to perform a regular repeat, advancing or decreasing repeat is available. Once Advancing or Decreasing is selected, a Step option is available:

Click Apply to perform the repeats, Close to close the Repeat panel.

At the top, tabs to perform the quick repeat or warp repeat are also available.

This option is available both on the drop down for weft as well as the Design Repeats icon on the Design Menu.

Change Face

The Change Face function toggles the weft in the selected region:

• If a weft thread is already drawn-in, it will be undone.

• If a weft thread is not drawn-in, it will be changed to drawn-in.

Essentially, it reverses the current state of the weft in the selected area.

Note: This option is only available when using a lift plan. It is not available when a tie-up is present.

To Shift threads in the Warp, highlight a selection and choose either Shift Right, Left, Up or Down. Alternatively, the highlight warp threads may be shifted by using the left, right, up and down arrow keys.

This 8-shaft draft has 6-warp threads selected; under the Warp menu.

If Shift Up is selected (or the up arrow pressed), the six warp threads are all one shaft higher; the selection remains in place so that the threads can be shifted again, repeatedly, if desired. When threads are shifted up, they will eventually wrap back to shaft one. If you want the threads to wrap before reaching the maximum shaft, draw the box only as high as you highest shaft before wrapping.

Note that the Shift can be done repeatedly without reselecting the warp threads.

Select the area of warp to modified before clicking Warp Reverse. Warp Reverse moves each warp thread in reverse order. The highest warp end, warp 18 in the example below, becomes warp end 1 after the reverse action is applied, continuing on 17 becomes 2, 16 becomes 3, until warp 1 becomes the 18th warp end.

This is a new function that is currently under development. The final version will be able to mark sections within the draft for repeating warp and weft motifs. This early version does identify repeats, but is not easy to use or tailor. More to come on this!

This is an example:

It's clear to the weaver's eye that from warp thread 1 to 63, there is a section of threading that is repeated 4 times. At the far left, there are 3 threads that are "trim".

Once Repeat Analysis is run (see dialog), the following is detected:

This screen reveals that there isn't a perfect repeat in warp and weft (correct).

The system then tried to trim off the edges to see what might be detected as repeats.

Looking just at warp, the R = 3 indicates the 3 threads that are "trim". Note that this is currently reversed, we know that it is the leftmost threads where the trim exists.

Under Local Warp Motifs, the first detection is 59 warp ends (columns) that repeat 4 times over thread s 1-236. This is correct, and it's what we as weaver's would consider the repeat to use when looking at changing the width of this craft.

Other repeats that are found are not as interesting to us as weavers.

Also note that this feature only looks at structure; color and thickness are not considered.

As mentioned earlier, you can use this against drafts and perhaps identify some useful information, but this feature will be improved over time to make it easier to read the output.

To use block substitution, open or create a profile draft. A profile draft can be a 2-block design with 2-shafts and treadles, or have additional shafts and treadles for more blocks.

Save your profile draft, then select one of the weave structures and click Generate. A new draft will be opened in a new window with the block substitution applied. The new draft can be saved or simply closed to return to the profile draft.

See this following profile draft with two blocks, thus two shafts:

The draft must be given a name and saved before using block substitution.

Click the block substitution button on the Design menu to see the panel of available blocks or unit weaves.

The additional structures will be added in future releases. Click on a column heading to sort alphabetically.

To filter and show only certain types, click on the filter icon (circled) and click on the weave type:

To use block substitution, select the name and click Generate. A new window will open with the generated design with the substitution. If you want to keep the design, do a Save As. If you do not want to keep it, simply close the window and you'll be returned to the profile draft where you can try another block.

In the example below, the profile above had Satin 4 chosen and generated:

Start with a Design Line:

Choose Telescope in Design Line Reduction. Uncheck the box for Plot on network, so you can see the impact of the telescoping of the design line before plotting on the network.

This is the result of reducing the above design line to 8 shafts. The methodology involves dividing the rows on the threading into a few slices, and telescoping those slices into a single row. In this case, the 37 row high design line has been reduced to 8 rows (shafts).

After digitiing the original 37-row design line to 8 shafts:

Selecting Repeat under the Warp Icon reveals the following panel that allows selection of a from and through warp thread, along with options of where to start a repeating sequence and how to handle the repeat.

The from and to threads can be typed in or filled automatically by selecting an area with the selection tool. By default, the start thread under "To" will be set equal to the from through thread plus 1. In the above screenshot, warp threads 1 through 3 are selected and the default is to start the repeats at thread 4. The To Start Thread can be changed.

Set the number of repeats as desired.

After tabbing out of the number of repeats field, the end thread and width will be calculated for you. The end thread is the ending thread of the repeats. This can be useful if you want to have the software help you determine how many repeats to use to reach a certain thread number in your design. The width is the total width of the warp in the reed, not the width of the repeating section. As you change the number of repeats, the width will change according to any additional threads being added.

The options area lists regular, advancing and decreasing. If advancing or descreasing is selected, a Step field is available. The default step is "1".

To include colors from the copied threads, check the include color box.

Click apply to perform the repeats.

For example, if warp threads 1 through 3 are selected to be copied starting at warp 4, advancing with a step of 1, the following result will be obtained. Note that the first repeat of 1-2-3 goes to 2-3-4, etc.

The following video shows the use of Advancing Repeats:

Notice that you can also click in other tabs for the Quick Repeat and the Weft Repeat. This same function is also available on the Design menu option under an icon labelled "Design Repeats".

Shift Operations

Shift operations allow you to move threads in the selected region left, right, up, or down.

How to Use:

• Select the region you want to move.

• Use the menu options or the arrow keys on your keyboard to shift the content.

Tips:

• ✅ The selected area stays active after shifting, so you can repeat the operation easily.

• 🔁 Press the arrow keys multiple times to move the region several steps in any direction—this makes repeated shifting quick and efficient.

• 🚫 Hold the Shift key while pressing an arrow to turn off wrapping, otherwise the threads will wrap around the edges of the draft.

From the Design Menu under weft, the following options are available by clicking the arrow to reveal the options.

The following pages show the various options that are available under the Weft Dropdown.

A simple radio button can be used to set whether or not your project is being woven on a rising or sinking shed loom.

If you aren't familiar with these terms, a rising shed loom is the most common. Most jack looms are rising shed. When a treadle is tied to a shaft, the shaft rises when the treadle is pressed.

An example of a popular jack loom that is a sinking shed is the David loom.

If the setting is set to Sinking Shed, the cloth on the drawdown represents the weaving as if the shafts are pulled down by the treadles. The normal "face" view will look the same as the back view on a risng shed loom.

This setting does not change the tie-up, it simply changes the drawdown window to reflect how the cloth will look to the weaver while being woven. To change the tie-up, use the Change Face option for the tie-up.

The primary reason for entering Cloth Construction is to enable the cloth viewer (cloth sim, under the View menu option) to properly display the rendering of the generated cloth.

The cloth construction defaults to Normal:

For double weave, it is assumed that a single, integrated cloth is being woven with the top and bottom layers interchanging. For double weave, the weaver specifies the shuttle sequence of starting with either the top or bottom layer.

Double Cloth, cloth that is woven using half the width and produces a fold on either the left or right side is specified by either selecting "B,T,T,B" for weaving the bottom layer, top layer one direction, top layer the coming back, followed by the bottom layer once again over and over. A custom sequence can also be entered. Sometimes with color and weave and double cloth, more than one shuttle is used requiring a sequence such as TBBTBTTB .

Double cloth opens additonal fields for entry to allow specification of the shafts that are weaving the top layer: For a 4-shaft design, as shown below, only 4 shafts are made available. A 32-shaft design, for example, would require entering the top layer shafts and all 32 shafts are available for selection.

These fields are specified by the weaver such that the cloth will render properly in cloth sim under the View option. When a double cloth is generated by TempoWeave (see ), the settings for the cloth construction are updated accordingly.

File | Print

Under File Print, the following choices are available for printing. The Print Winding, as well as Print Weft Plan (not available here at this time) are also available on the menu.

This option, accessible on the menu in the tie-up group, allows one or more treadles to be copied to others by stepping the contents. Often this is a diagonal line, such as in a twill. The default values, as shown in the picture below on a draft with 8 treadles, allow for the tie-up to be generated based on the value on the first treadle, and shifting each of the shaft selections up by 1 on each subsequent treadle in the tie-up, wrapping when the shift goes past the highest shaft. Any prior values in the tie-up are erased and replaced.

The fields that may be selected for the Tie-Up diagonal button are:

• Start - first treadle in the tie-up to use as the copy-from

• Step - number of shafts to step when copying the values from the prior treadle. The direction of the step is UP, unless the down Down button is clicked.

It's easy to be confused by the differences in Flip and Reverse in the weft.

Here is a comparison:

FILE | New

File New opens a new weaving design window using the number of shafts, treadles (or liftplan) as defined n . The number of shafts, treadles, tie-up or liftplan and view options may be changed in the Project Menu.

It is recommended that you save your new file soon (see Save As) before starting to invest time in your new design.

Lift plans are special formats of WIF files used for table and dobby looms. Lift plans do not have a tie-up, but instead indicate which shafts are lifted or lowered on each weft pick. You know that a draft is a liftplan if the tie-up area is blank.

Many weavers design with a tie-up, even if the draft is being planned for a table or dobby loom. When the design is ready, TempoWeave will create a new version of the tie-up draft as a lift plan.

For example, the following draft has a tie-up:

Once Convert to LiftPlan is clicked, the following message is displayed:

TempoWeave now does the translation to a lift plan and prompts the weaver to save the converted draft under a new name. By default, TempoWeave fills in the former draft name appended with a "-LP" for Lift Plan. You should not use the same name for the tie-up and lift plan draft! You can reopen the original version at any time. It's recommended that you keep the convention of adding "LP" for lift plan on your computer's hard drive to avoid confusion between the original draft you have designed and the converted liftplan version of the design.

The Yarn Catalog is deployed with several current weaving yarn lines and colors. The Yarn Catalog cannot be updated, however you can copy yarns from the catalog to "My Yarns", as well as generate your own entries and create your own personal collection of yarns and color palettes.

The Yarn Catalog is on the Tool Menu. Yarn lines are indicated in the grey areas and can be expanded by clicking the ">" symbol to show available colors. Also notice that there are two tabs at the bottom: Yarn Lines and My Yarns. You have the option to create your own yarn line entries and colors and save in My Yarns.

If you want to design a project with Euroflax Sport for example, you may want to clear all the current colors from your palette and add either all or selected colors from the Euroflax yarn line. See for information on clearing the current palette.

Quick Summary

Sections of Warp and Weft are marked. Once marked, they are grouped and repeated. The Refresh button will show calculated sizes based on the ends per inch and picks per inch defined in Project Information. It's easy to change the number of repeats, click refresh and get the sizing just like you want. Once you are ready to give your design a "go", click the green checkmark button from any of the sections to generate a new WIF based on your selections. Either close the generated WIF, make some tweaks and try again, or if you like what you see, save it!

Remember that you need to include a Group and at least one section in both Warp and Weft before generating a new WIF.

What to look for in Section Assembly

Sections that have been marked are always shown at the top under available sections. The following example is a huck lace design where each 5-thread threading and treadling unit has been defined for each section along with 2-thread plain weave.

To help eliminate confusion between warp and weft assembly, the Available Sections title is red for Weft Assembly and green for Warp Assembly.

You can elect to have only one group for your design, or multiple groups as needed. Sections are dragged into groups in the desired order. Sections may be reused in multiple positons within groups. Both sections and groups may be repeated more than once.

First create a group by clicking Add Group. The group will be added where you "drop it". It's easy to reorder a groups by changing the order number.

To drag a section into a group, select by clicking the section and drag to the desired position below.

The following screenshot shows a design using Section Assembly. In this example, the Weft tab has been clicked. At the top, the marked sections are shown with the weft pick range in the Location column. The sections in this name have been renamed to meaningful terms as described in the . The sections can be edited by double clicking on the section name.

When a large number of sections are available, it's helpful to use the scroll bars as well as to drag the divider line (pointed to by the red arrow below) to resize the available sections area and the section assembly area below. Also keep the window maximized to allow the scroll bars to be visible.

How to Reorder Groups and Sections

Again, if you drop sections in the wrong order you can change the order column on the section.

After changing the order column on groups or sections, tab or click into another row and click refresh to complete the reorder process.

How to Delete Groups or Sections

Click to select the group or section and press delete to delete the group or section in the assembly area.

Generating a WIF from Section Assembly

When working with your design, it's useful to frequently generate a WIF to check your progress. The green checkmark button shown in the following screen will generate a new WIF using your warp and weft section assembly and any color information. The new WIF opens in a new window and is untitled. Simply close the window (control-W is a convenient command) to return to your assembly process without saving the generated WIF. If you like what you see, you can save the generated WIF.

Adjusting Repeats to Obtain Width and Length - Use Refresh!

It's easy to adjust repeats on groups and sections in the warp and weft to get to the size you want for your generated WIF. Be sure to have your EPI and PPI defined in under so that the Length and Width is calculated accurately. In the sample above, with the grouped sections and repeats, the total WIF length is 8.3 inches. If you change the EPI and PPI in your design, click Refresh to recalculate the calculations.

When changing groups and number of repeats, be sure to click "Refresh" to update the calculated number of threads and length. For example, if tweaking stripe repeats for a towel that you want to be 20" in the reed, you can quickly get a calculation by clicking "Refresh" and seeing the width in the reed. Likewise, on the Weft tab, the "Refresh" button will relcalculated the length.

Warp Color and Weft Color

Warp and Weft colors can also be grouped and repeated to save a lot of time in generating colors in the WIF. The default uses the colors from the drawdown. If "Use Color from Drawdown" is selected, then the colors are brought forward from the marked sections.

However if "Enable Color Assembly" is selected, you have the option to create groups, drag multiple colors from the palette into the groups and repeat both the colors and groups multiple times.

The following example shows Warp Threads in a repeating color sequence. Only one group has been used in this example and it's used only once (no repeats). The individual colors, however, do have repeats. The number of threads is shown at 170 total at the top of the group, and the threads and width column are calculated and the width is derived using the SETT as provided under planning in project information. There are more colors than will fit on the screen, so a scroll bar is provided at the right.

Scroll down and at the end, you have the total number of threads and the total width (or length if using Weft Color Assembly) is shown.

For videos, see

Warp and Weft Threads can always be recolored by selecting a color from the palette, and using a drawing tool, clicking or dragging in the color bars above the warp or to the right of the weft threads.

Here is a simple example of recoloring all of the warp and weft threads using Color Repeats:

The Color Repeats tool allows replacing color in either warp or weft automatically with several options as described below.

Select any color from the palette and click into the vertical column. In the picture below, a green color has been selected from the palette and a single click into the first cell shows the color and the number of repeats defaults to one. Additional colors can be added in the column and the number of repeats specified for the color.

Colors entries can be deleted by clicking the row to select and pressing delete. A color can be inserted by right clicking on a color to add an empty row in the color column.

Colors can be mirrored by clicking Mirror and cleared with the Clear button.

At the top, click on whether the action is to apply to Warp or Weft.

The option of starting thread, repeats, ending and ratio will be described below. The Apply button is used to take the options and color choices and apply the color as instructed to the warp or weft in the draft. Changes can be easily made and applied, followed by clicking Cloth View (or keyboard shortcut "V") to see the impact of the changes.

Repeats option

The default option is Repeats (the button group showing Repeats - Ending - Ratio). The number of repeats defaults to 1 and can be changed. Any colors in the lower part, along with their specified repeats, will be used to color in the warp or weft for the exact number of times specified. The starting thread can also be changed to something other than 1.

For example, this instruction results in the warp colors shown below the Design screen once Apply is clicked.

Ending option

The ending option allows the specified colors (and their repeats) to repeat across the entire draft or to stop at the specified thread. The ending thread defaults to the last thread; the starting and ending threads can be changed.

Resulting coloring:

Ratio Option (supports Fibonacci Stripes)

The ratio option is very powerful option to spread the desired sequence of colors in the selected proportions across warp or weft. This feature is most often used to apply the fibonnaci widths to stripes; this along with the optional ability to mirror the color sequences makes for very fast designing and testing of stripes.

The repeats color is used for the ratio numbers. Most often, one of the Fibonacci numbers is used; a hover over the Repeats column heading provides a handy reminder of 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34

In the following example, we have chosen Ratio, Listed Pattern (meaning to take the instructions from the column of colors and repeats), Fit is checked and left the default ending thread of the last warp end.

After applying, this is the resulting picture from Cloth View.

After clicking Mirror on the above panel, the colors and repeats are mirrored (pivots back from the last color which is Wasabi in this example). Now after clicking Apply, the Wasabi is in the middle of the design.

If the Weft button and apply is clicked, leaving the same colors and repeats, the following cloth is generated:

The FIT box is selected by default. This means that if the ratio doesn't fit evenly into the number of threads, then small adjustments are made to spread the colors such that each thread is colored.

By unchecking FIT, you may see extra colors where there is no structure and the ratios are exact as you specified. In this situation, you can then choose whether or not to add more structure so that all the colors are used.

It is possible to apply the ratio color repeats to any section of warp or weft by specifying the starting and ending thread. For example, if you decided to do an alternating dark light on some of the stripes, hover over the drawdown to determine the thread numbers and apply the replacing color pattern to only that section; either a normal repeat or a ratio spread can be used on this smaller section of the draft.

When a LiftPlan is open, the button "Convert to Tieup" is available. When clicked, you are prompted to save the newly created Tie-Up version under a new name. TempoWeave defaults the suggestion to the current draft name with "-TU" added to the end.

In this LiftPlan:

After clicking Convert To TieUp, the draft will now have as many treadles as necessary without pressing more than one treadle at once as shown below.

If you originally have a LiftPlan that was converted from a tie-up using Convert to Lift Plan, it's possible that the conversion back to a tie-up may have the treadles in a different order.

Settings that apply to your installation of TempoWeave, regardless of the weaving design, are stored here. Some of these settings are defaults. You can change the settings for an individual project using the Project Information options."

Default Settings - Loom

Default number of shafts and treadles can be set for your most commonly designed weaving designs. This setting can be changed for any design under the Project menu. Note that the default shafts and treadles only impacts new designs created after the setting is changed. To change shafts and treadles on current designs, change as described in .

The default mode of designing is to use a Tie-Up. Many design with a tie-up even if they for a table or dobby loom when the design is complete.

Default Settings - Files

The default directory location for saving your designs is documents/tempoweave unless a different location is specified in the "Default Location for new WIF Files". Typically this default location will have subfolders created to store WIFs by categories that assist in finding designs.

Telemetry is used for debugging purposes.

Version history is on by default. For more information see .

Settings - Grid / Layout

The Grid / Layout Options allow the weaver to change the grid with "thick" lines shafts and threads in the the warp and weft.

The grid overlay settings can be changed for any single design under tab. See the Project Shafts and Treadles for example of setting the grid options. The grid options apply not only the the designer screen, but also to the Print functions.

The Thread Display Option area allows either numeric values or "blocks" to show for the Tie-up, Warp and Weft. These options are also available on the project design under the View options.

The templates available for huck include:

1. Huck Full Unit - Lace

   • This selection works well with most profile drafts and does not require that the blocks are in sequential order. Blocks include two half unit lace units of 5-threads each; each block is substituted with 10 warp threads and 10 weft picks. Pattern blocks in the drawdown are replaced with a full huck lace unit as shown below with weft and warp floats.

   • Full Unit of Huck Lace

2. Huck Half Unit - Lace in Pattern

• The half unit lace blocks require the profile blocks to be sequential (move one step up or down at a time). If this block is used with profile draft above (note the jumps between 1 and 3) the cloth will not work. Notice the excessive floats with pattern blocks going from shafts and treadles 3 to 5.

3. Huck Half Unit - Warp Floats in Pattern

This template only produces warp floats, no weft floats. Example:

Any flat woven cloth can be translated into a double cloth with a fold on the left by using this utility on the design menu:

First, design your cloth as if it were to be woven flat at full width (without a fold). Before clicking Create Double Cloth, be sure to save your draft—this action transforms the draft. It’s best practice to save the full-width draft under a different name than the double-cloth version. That way, if changes are needed later, you can easily edit the original and regenerate the double-cloth draft.

Example:

• A simple twill pattern requires 4 shafts and 4 treadles, with 800 warp ends sett at

The Image Center allows the importing, editing and organizing of graphic images that can be pasted into the tie-up and weft area. This feature, in combination with block substitution or network drafting can be used to produce images in the cloth.

Image Panel Operations (icons)

1) Open File Navigate to any image file (.bmp, .jpg, .png) and open into Image Panel.

2) Save File Specify file name and location, and save image with any changes.

3) Transparent Save the background as transparent on save.

4) Rotate The default is to rotate 90 degrees. The drop down allows a specified angle of rotation.

5) Flip Vertical . Flip the image vertically

6) Flip Horizontal . Flip the image horizontally

7) Image Inversion Filter Invert darks and lights

8) Crop . Crop the image to be used for the Profile Image

9) Wand Mask Select a range of colors that can be removed or changed

10) Clear Wand Mask Clear out wand mask selections

11) Mask Inversion Invert the Mask

Profile Panel Operations (icons)

1) Clear Clear the Profile and Image Panels to start a new edit

2) Save Select the location and save the profile image (png preferred).

3) Edit . Open ability to edit the pixels in the Profile

4) Brush Size . When editing, ability to control the size of the "brush" to cover more pixels

5) Rows and Columns . Select from the drop down or enter the size desired.

6) Undo and Redo

7) Update - Refresh from Image on left.

Selecting and Viewing Images

TempoWeave includes a sample set of images stored in folders that begin with “~Samples.” When you click a Folder, Album, or the Working Set in the left panel, the related images and profiles appear on the right. If there are more than a few images, a scroll bar will appear on the right side to let you browse through them. You can also create additional Folders or Albums as needed.

For easier viewing, you may want to use the maximize button in the upper right corner of the Image Center. The Image Center can be minimized or closed at any time to return to your draft (for example, to paste from the clipboard), and reopened from the Tools Menu whenever you’re ready to work with images again.

Adjusting the Profile

The Threshold slider adjusts how sensitively an image is translated. Increasing or decreasing the threshold can refine the result, which is especially useful when working with photographs or detailed pictures.

The Wand Mask tool is used to filter out a selected color from the image. Once the tool is activated, a slider appears at the bottom of the image, allowing you to adjust the range of color included in the mask. To remove the mask, use the Clear Wand Mask tool located next to the wand. Any changes made with these tools update the profile immediately.

Updating and Saving Changes to Profile Images

Images displayed in the right panel can be opened by double-clicking. By default, the image size matches the number of shafts and treadles in TempoWeave. You can change this by updating the rows and columns above the Profile.

To view the file’s storage location on your computer, simply hover over the image.

For example, when selecting the Lizard from the Samples folder, the Profile size defaulted to 32 × 32.

To elongate the seahorse image, the row has been changed to 42, making the profile image fit into a 42x32 grid.

Placing the Profile Image in the Draft

Copy to Clipboard to make the Profile Image available for pasting into the tie-up or the weft area in the draft. The Image Center can be minimized, or closed with the “X” button, to return to the draft window. To insert an image, place the cursor where you want it to appear, then use the Paste tool or press Ctrl + V.

Folders and Albums

Folder – A folder (directory) on your computer that contains images.

Album – A collection of images grouped by theme or purpose. The actual files may be stored in different locations, but their thumbnails are gathered in the album for easy selection.

Working Set – A temporary area where links to images are saved. For example, if you open an image from anywhere on your computer and click Save in the Image panel, that image will be added to the Working Set for quick access. Similarly, profiles that are saved will also appear in the Working Set.

To view the file name and storage location of an image in the right View Panel, simply hover over the image. The full file name and path will be displayed.

To remove a reference to an image, click the “X” in the upper-left corner of the thumbnail. A confirmation message will appear asking if you want to remove the selected item.

Keep in mind that removing an image from an Album, Working Set, or Folder does not delete the actual file from your computer—it only removes the reference in the TempoWeave Image Center.

Creating Albums and Folders is optional.

This function analyzes a draft and determines if it can be woven with fewer treadles, those changes can be accepted and applied to the tie-up and the weft (treadling). Usually this requires pressing certain treadles two at a time, often referred to as a skeleton tie-up.

The function can also be used on a liftplan and at times can modify the draft to use fewer shafts.

Options are:

Treadles on Loom – This setting defaults to the number of treadles specified in the draft. You can change it to the number of treadles available on your loom, or a smaller number, and the function will attempt to determine whether the draft can be woven with that number.

Time Budget – If finding a solution for the desired number of treadles is very complex or not possible, TempoWeave may take a long time to process the request. The default time budget is set to 2 minutes.

Prefer Single Treadles - This selection, on by default, instructs the algorithm to optimize the use of single treadles.

Frequency Weighting - This selection, on by default, instructs the algorithm to optimize single treadles to those use most often.

Example of Reducing Design with 12 Treadles

he weaving draft #532, found in Carol Strickler’s A Weaver’s Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, requires 14 treadles.

With this draft open, determine if the treadles can be reduced, use the Treadle Reducer function on the tools menu.

The No. Treadles on the loom first has the value 14. Change it to the number of treadles to try. In this case, the value was changed to 10, and Reduce and Preview was clicked. In this situation, a soluation was found with the 10-treadles requested. To apply the change to the Tie-Up and the Treadling, click Apply Reduction. Note: If you want to retain the former version, be sure to save the new file under a different name after applying the reduction.

After clicking Apply, a message will be given that the tie-up and weft have changed. Click OK and close the Treadle Reducer screen to return to the draft.

After the reduction, the draft is converted to the specified number of treadles, and the treadling sequence has the treadle selections on each pick, with some requiring pressing two treadles at once, to produce the same cloth.

This video shows use of the Treadle Reducer:

For a Video example of entering creating the profile draft in this example, see this link:

Fill Weft

The Fill Weft tool allows you to fill weft threads based on a selected area and a design line.

How to Use:

1. Use the Select Tool to choose a region in the weft (partial area selections are supported).

he Setup information has the unit of measurement, sett and optional reed and raddle information. The unit of measurement and sett is used in many areas of TempoWeave for showing width and length, so it's recommended that this be entered for each project.

Project units can be selected in English (Imperial) or Metric. This setting applies throughout the project, although a reed from a different system can be used.

Reed and Raddle settings are also on this Setup screen. Please refer to the documentation on these options under and

To view and print Reed or Raddle Charts, click the Reed Chart or Raddle Chart button. Reed charts will only print the reeds in the measurement system selected on Edit Reed Options. Raddle charts are available only for the LoftyFiber Raddle (4 spaces per inch) and the Louet Built-n Raddle (.5 spaces per cm).

Most of the project settings, calculations and information are within the Project Information tab.

Shafts and Treadles, Title, and Notes, Planning and Sizing, Cloth Construction (e.g. doubleweave, doublecloth), Heddle Counts, Colors Used, Yardage calculations

is a printable version of color patterns and counts for winding a warp chain.

is a printout of the number of weft picks per color.

Checking for long floats is a good idea before finalizing your design.

In the column under "Open", click to access either recent designs, folders or to open a browse window. If you do not see these options, then the screen is scrolled down where it is showing more designs or folders, simply scroll back to the top to see the options.

Under Recent Designs, the most 30 recent files are displayed in the right panel. Any weaving design opened or saved is included in the recent designs list. The links can be clicked to open the file.

Under Recent Folders, up to 30 recently used folders are displayed. When clicked, the File Explorer opens to that folder where a design can be selected to open.

Pressing Browse allows navigation to any folder or drive on the computer. The default location starts at the folder that is defined as the default location in the Settings. Once a weaving draft is opened using the Browse function, the recent designs and recent folders are updated accordingly.

If TempoWeave is the default program for opening WIF files, a file can also be opened directly from File Explorer or an attachment in email. More than one design can be opened in TempoWeave at one time. To switch between open files, see Switching Between Open Weaving Designs.

Combine and Interleave weft is a powerful tool that allows the merging of the treadling for two wefts. The merged wefts can be interleaved or overlayed, and optionally shifted when doing the merge.

The screenshot below shows a draft with the panel for the Combine Weft selected. The combine weft function is in the Weft Group on the Design Menu.

The panel, a s shown beside a draft below, starts with a Combine From selection. It is necessary to have at least two drafts open in TempoWeave to use the Combine Weft. The draft that has "focus" is the one that will be modified, however the draft that will have the weft sequence to be interleaved or overlayed must be open in TempoWeave and selected in the "Combine FROM" box.