WeaveMaker User's Guide: Table of Contents
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1. The WeaveMaker Audience You, the Designer Prerequsites The Advanced Designer 2. Getting Started 3. Design Window Design Window Threading Pane Denting Stop Motion Treadling or Peg Plan Pane Float Diagram Color Bars 4. Tools Window Pencil Cornucopia Marquee Eyedropper Hand (Resize a Marquee) Hand (Harness Shuffle) Insert Threads Delete Threads Wrap Change Scale Float Intervals 5. Repeat Blocks Introduction Repeat Block Example 6. Block Tools Controlling a Block Actions Block Repeats Types of Repeats Hand Tool (Resizing a Block) Resizing Arrows 7. Using Repeat Blocks Horizontal Mirror Repeat Straight Repeat Vertical Mirror Repeat Drift Repeat Drift by N Repeat Straight Draw Threading Basket Weave Hound's Tooth Herringbone 8. File Menu New Design   - Open File Type Save As Save Close New Palette Open Palette Save Palette Save Palette As Export (Fabric, 3-D, Grids) Grid Options Print Options Print Preview Page Setup Print Continue Quit 9. Edit Menu Undo   - Watch Out for... Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Select Lock Warp, Lock Weft Algebraic (input)   - Threading, Treadling   - Color Arrangement (Warp/Weft)   - Denting   - Beaming Remarks Window Preferences 10. Loom Menu Setting or Querying the loom Size Threads/Picks per Inch Stop Motion Tie-up-Peg Plan Conversion Tromp as Writ   - Normal   - Tabby   - Overshot Jacquard Color Tromp Turn Fabric 90 degrees Turn Weave 90 degrees Exch Warp-Weft Colors Back Side Omit Structure Omit Color Warp Floats/Weft Floats Float Controls 11. Dobby Menu (Dobby Loom Controls) Courteous v. Fast (Dobby Type) SLIPS Looms   - Dobby Bell (audible go-ahead)   - Normal Treadling   - Abnormal Treadling (incorrect lift)   - Reversing Direction AVL Looms AVL Dobby Weaving AVL Loom Switches   - SKIP Switch   - REVERSE Switch   - PATTERN Switch   - SAVE Switch   - RESUME Switch   - TABBY Switch Open AVL Cartridge Close AVL Cartridge AVL Soft Reset 12. Views Menu Design Window Elements Showing or Hiding Windows Denting Stop Motion Show Cursor Position Active Window Names 13. Library Menu 14. Special Menu Heddles/Harness Repeats Float Histogram Split Harness Show Fabric in 3-D Fabric Swatch   - One Pixel Per Thread   - Weave Simulation   - On-Screen Simulation 15. Of Mills and Money "Yes, We Can Weave Your Dobby Design We'll Do it as a Jacquard" Keeping it Dobby Designing for the Loom   - Simple Warp, Complex Weft   - Have the Color Meet the Weave   - Weft Blankets   - Warp Blankets   - Benign Simplification   - Automated Looms 16. Cornucopia Structure Schemes Introduction Schemes Window Turning Schemes On & Off Automatic Mode Scheme Examples 17. Threading Schemes Catalog Network Step Walk ZigZag Stutter Twill 18. Tie-up Schemes Catalog Twill Tie-up Double Twill Tie-up Wrapped Twill Tie-up Symmetric Tie-up Latin Square Tie-up 19. Peg Plan Schemes Catalog Twill Overlay Twill Walk Random Walk Ripple Slashes Tabby Twill 20. Whole-Fabric Schemes Catalog Summer-Winter Twill Walk Huck Divided Designs Moire Scheme 21. Creating Color Color Overview   - Step 1 (Palette)   - Step 2 (Colorway) The Challenge of Color Palettes Creating a Palette Naming Colors Color Matching Using Color Sorting Colors Editing Colors 22. Using Color Colorway Window Color Dragging Adding Colorway Color Chips Coloring Fabrics   - Manual Coloring   - Cornucopia Coloring Colorway Tools Multiple Colorways 23. Cornucopia Color Schemes Color Cornucopia   - Scheme Selection   - Major/Minor/Accent   - Marquees and Repeat Blocks Getting Started Color Scheme Selection Scheme Colors Color Emphasis Blends 24. Color Schemes Catalog Color Schemes Table Alternate   - Two Color Arrangements   - Major/Minor Arrangements   - Major/Minor/Accent Arrangements Partition Two-Color Blend Blocked Blend Partition Blend Thin Stripes Math 25. Printing Printing Custom Forms Print Options Hybrid Print Options Creating a Custom Form Fabric Printouts Overview   - Fabric Summary   - Threading and Peg Plan   - Warp Yarn Description   - Warp Color Arrangement   - Drawdown Diagram Symbols Diagram Sizes Printing Warp and Weft Colors Page Annotation Drawdown Threading Diagram Peg Plan Diagram Tie-Up Diagram Fabric Swatch in Color Warp/Weft Colors Table 26. Analysis 27. Jacquard Conversion to Jacquard Jacquard Editing Jacquard Printing Sample Jacquard Printout 28. Facts and Figures Colorways Designs Ends,Picks Harnesses Palettes HSL RGB Treadles