Schemes: Controls for the design cornucopia.

In designing weaves, you will spend most of your time working in the Design window, with trips to the Tools windows to control color, repeats, and copy & paste editing.

When you want WeaveMaker to create patterns on its own, you will turn to the cornucopia tool (second from the top left in the Tools window) and the Schemes window. Having WeaveMaker create spontaneous patterns is very easy (please see Cornucopia in section four for more information).

To create your own fabric designs, or modify ones which WeaveMaker creates, you should read the next two sections (“Design Window” and “Tools Window”).

WeaveMaker gives you powerful tools for incorporating colors into your designs. Colors are created within palettes. Think of a palette as a color database which stores colors until you need them. Colors are (literally) dragged from a palette into a colorway for use in a fabric. Creating multiple colorways is quick and convenient. Please see Colorways (section 22) for more information about colorways.