Zain Dana HarperThe Loom

Weave the picture into working cloth.

Any render becomes thread. Send a frame over from the Retro Engine, the Studio, or the Gallery, or drop in your own image, and the Loom turns its tones into threading, tie-up, and treadling in a real weave structure: plain, 2/2 twill, satin, overshot, or per-thread jacquard shading. Watch the cloth build pick by pick with each row played as notes, or play the finished cloth as the score it is. Export a WIF draft that loom software opens, the charts, or the cloth itself, and the piece keeps its trail wherever it travels next.

image → threading · tie-up · treadling · cloth · nothing leaves your browser
Source an image, or a WIF draft
Source

Read locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Or press Send to Loom on the Retro Engine or the Studio desk and the frame lands here.

Or open a WIF draft from Fiberworks, WeaveIt, or any WIF-aware tool.

Draft structure, view, zoom
Start from a whole setup in one press
View
Structure

In the Draft view: click the tie-up to lift or drop a shaft, a threading square to move an end, a treadling square to change the treadle. The cloth follows the draft.

Cloth width, sett, tone, colors
The cloth

draw or drop an image to read the cloth

Width in ends 120 ends
Sett 24 epi
Tone drive 60
Warp
Weft
Weave and play shuttle, sound
Shuttle speed 24
Keep and send WIF, chart, cloth, setups

Keys Space weave / hold S save cloth F full screen

The WIF export is a standard Weaving Information File: threading, tie-up, treadling, and colors, sized to the structure's shafts. Open it in Fiberworks, WeaveIt, or any WIF-aware tool and the draft on your screen is the draft on the loom.