Weave Patterner: free online weaving draft designer

Design weaving drafts in your browser. Click the threading, tie-up and treadling and watch the drawdown update as you go. Weave Patterner is free, open source, and needs no account or download.

Features

• Threading, tie-up and treadling (or lift plan) with a live drawdown, on up to 128 shafts and treadles
• WIF import and export for computer-assisted looms, plus PNG and SVG images and printed drafts
• 3D cloth preview with real yarn sizes, shown flat, draped, on a sofa, as a rug or as a tapestry
• Block weaves: overshot, summer and winter, crackle, Bronson lace, M's and O's, damask, shadow weave, taqueté, rep weave and turned twill
• Double cloth: separate layers, tubes, double width, stitched and block double cloth
• Picture to draft, colourways, variations, echo weave and drawing the cloth to find its draft
• Warp calculator, yarn library, warp winding plan and step-by-step weaving and threading guides
• Rigid heddle instructions and a tablet (card) weaving designer
• Bitmap (BMP) export for jacquard looms such as the TC2, and colour-and-weave presets
• Works with a keyboard and screen readers, with step-by-step help on F1 and a guided tour

Guides and free drafts

• Weave Patterner guides: getting started, threading, treadling and lift plans, reading a drawdown and a glossary of weaving terms
• Free weaving drafts: houndstooth, Glen check, herringbone, gingham and more

For knitting, try Knit Patterner, the knitting chart maker; for sewing, Sew Patterner. Weave Patterner needs JavaScript to run. Please turn it on to start designing.