Undo
Undoes whatever you last did in WeaveMaker. If you click in the threading, for example, Undo will reverse the effect of that click. Undo handles even large-scale changes. If you change the size of the loom, Undo will put it back the way it was.

You can repeat Undo up to five times; each time you click it, it undoes one more thing. Redo has the opposite effect of Undo.

Watch Out for

• Undo cannot reverse the effects of Close or Save. If you close a design without saving it, and you reply “no” to the query “Save changes to WeaveMaker design?”, those changes are lost for good. In a similar vein, if you do a Save using the name of an existing file, and you reply “replace” to the query “Replace existing file?”, the old version of the file is destroyed for good.
• Undo only remembers the last five things you did. It cannot undo something you did earlier.
• Undo applied to changes to individual thread color changes undoes all color changes made since you touched the color patch in the Colorway window (it undoes everything you recolored with the currently selected color).

Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Select
These commands duplicate, move, or erase pieces of the threading, peg plan, tie-up, treadling, or drawdown. You can copy and paste within WeaveMaker or into other appli-cations such as a word proces-sor or drawing program. And these commands work across grid boundaries, so you can (for example) copy a threading and paste it into a tie-up or treadling (and vice-versa).

Cut, Copy, and Clear operate on an area you have designated with the Marquee tool or with Select Entire. Therefore, before using them you must set up a selection (please see “Marquee” in the Index for details). Cut, Copy, and Clear are grayed out if you have not established a selection.

Copy copies your selection to the clipboard. From there it can be pasted into any grid within WeaveMaker, or into other applications such as word processors or painting programs.

Paste copies the clipboard into the threading, tie-up, treadling, or peg plan at one or more places you select. To paste, first select Paste from the menu. The cursor shape changes to indicating that you can now paste (this is the Paste cursor). Move the paste cursor to the upper left hand corner (thread-ing) or upper right hand corner (peg plan, tie-up, or treadling) of where you want to paste, and click. The contents of the clip-board will overlay the selected portion of the design. You may paste over and over again, as many times as you wish.

If you paste between the threading and the treadling or peg plan, the image will be rotated by 90° (a “tromp as writ” effect).

Clear erases the selected area to white.

Cut combines copy and clear. First it copies the selection to the clipboard, then it erases the selection from the grid.

Clear Colorway puts the colorway back to the way it would be on a new design. Only two colors are defined, black in the warp and white in the weft.

Select Entire creates a selec-tion exactly enclosing one part of the design (the entire threading, for example). This is useful for copying an entire threading, treadling, or peg plan.

Clicking on Select Entire “pops up” a small submenu as shown, to permit you to select just the grid you desire.

Clear Entire combines Select Entire and Clear. It permits you to conveniently clear the threading, tie-up, treadling, peg plan, or color bars.

Lock Warp, Lock Weft
Some designs naturally divide into two parts, for example, a pattern and a ground (or tie-down). In WeaveMaker, you can divide your design into two parts and then temporarily lock either part while you work on the other.

For example, you might input the ground for a design, and then lock it while you work on the pattern. This is particularly useful when working with the Cornucopia tool (please see Section 16: “Cornucopia Tool” for details). You can create and lock a ground, and then use the Cornucopia tool to try out various patterns.

In the threading, you can separately lock harnesses and individual ends. For example, you might want to lock the first two harnesses. Or, you can lock every third end. These will typically be done in combination. In the peg plan, you can separately lock pegs and picks.

When you click on Lock Warp, a pop-up menu appears:

If you choose Lock Ends, the cursor changes to a small pad-lock. Move the cursor over the threading and click on any ends you wish to lock. Locked ends will turn gray. Continue clicking with the padlock cursor until you have locked all the ends you wish to lock. Clicking on a locked end unlocks it. Then, click on any of the tools in the Tool window to deselect the padlock cursor and end locking mode.

If you choose Lock Harnesses, you will then be asked to specify the range of harnesses you wish to lock. Those harnesses will turn gray as well.

Once you have established your locks, notice that you can no longer edit the grayed-out ends and harnesses. If you click with the Cornucopia tool in the threading, only the unlocked threads/harnesses change. You can temporarily remove the locking by choosing “Unlock.” You can restore the locking by clicking “Relock.” Use “Reverse Locks” to lock every unlocked thread and to lock every unlocked harnesses.

Locking in the peg plan or treadling follows these same rules.

Algebraic (Input)
Algebraic input is used to create threadings, tie-ups, peg plans, treadlings, dentings, beaming, and color arrangements by typing the harness/treadle/end/pick/color numbers and letters rather than clicking in a grid. If you have a threading, for example, which consists of a list of harness numbers, you can use algebraic input to convert those numbers into a WeaveMaker threading.

When you click on Algebraic, you pick one particular part of your design to input algebraically.

The rules for Algebraic input depend on the design element you are entering. Please consult the following sections for details.

Threading, Treadling
As an example, the expression “1-8 5-8 1 3 5 7 2 4 6” yields this threading:

Here are the exact rules:

• The values you type specify the threading from left to right, starting with end number 1 (treadling is from bottom to top, starting with pick 1).
• Harnesses (or treadles) are identified as a number, so (for example) 1 means “harness 1”. Put a blank between successive harness numbers.
• Straight draws can be specified by giving the starting and ending harness numbers. For example, 1-8 means “a straight draw from harness 1 to harness 8.”
• Repeats are indicated using parentheses and a repeat number. So, for example, the expression “3(1-8 1-4)” means “make a 1-8 straight draw followed by a 1-4 straight draw, and repeat that sequence 3 times.” Repeats can be nested.
• If the expression specifies fewer ends than are in the design, the ends you have specified are repeated across the design.

  For example, if you have specified 200 ends in your design and you enter “2(1-8) 1 2 1 2” as your threading expression, which only defines the threading for the first 20 ends, the result will be your 20-end pattern repeated 10 times, as though you had actually entered “10( 2(1-8) 1 2 1 2).”

Remarks Window
With each design you create, you may type comments which are kept along with the design (so when you save your design to disk, your comments are saved along with it). The Re-marks window is illustrated at the bottom of this page.

Preferences
Use this menu item to define the characteristics of your loom, so when you launch WeaveMaker or use New, you will get a blank design with the right number of harnesses, treadles, and the proper choice of tie-up or peg plan.