Automated Looms
Looms are getting increasingly
automated. As they do, the
power of WeaveMaker to create
unconventional designs can be
more readily harnessed. Today
most looms are more highly
automated in the weft than in the
warp. But seek out mills which
have robotic threaders. Some
such threaders require a human
to thread the first repeat, with the
robot then doing the rest of the
loom. If that is the case for you,
then design fabrics which make
strong use of warp repeats.
As looms in general become more
automated, and as mills replace
older equipment with such newer
designs, you should be able to
use more and more of
WeaveMaker’s full powers in the
warp. Meanwhile, always design
with one eye firmly fixed on the
realities of weaving in commercial
mills.