DB-WEAVE
Free professional weaving software for dobby looms.
DB-WEAVE helps you design dobby loom patterns and weave them on supported looms (e.g. ARM Patronic). There are virtually no limits on size or complexity. Powerful yet intuitive.
It runs natively on Windows, Linux and macOS. DB-WEAVE is free to download and use.
Download DB-WEAVE
Latest version: 6.0.0
Also available online — Textile Platform
Want to design from a browser, share patterns with a group, or chat with other weavers about a draft? The Textile Platform offers the same DB-WEAVE functionality online (with a few minor omissions), plus groups, chats and other collaboration features. Patterns are interchangeable — open the same file on the desktop or in the platform.
Features
Editing
- Freely adjustable warp/weft ends, shafts and treadles
- Cut, copy, paste (incl. transparent paste)
- Mirror, rotate, invert, roll, central-symmetry, slope
- Twill completion, lancée, user-defined standard patterns
- 100-step undo/redo
Threading & treadling
- Configurable: rising, falling, crossed, 2- & 3-choir, fixed, user-defined
- Threading-as-treadling and vice versa
- Tie-up and pegplan modes
View
- 10-step zoom, overview mode, support lines
- Three views: draft, color and fabric
- Configurable warp/weft ratio
Color
- Up to 236 simultaneous colors per pattern from 16M
- HSV/HSB and RGB color models, blends with weighting
- Swap warp/weft, replace specific colors
Substitutions
- Block substitution — replace each tie-up point with a sub-pattern
- Range substitution — assign a different pattern to each used range
- Up to nine independent ranges per design
Print & export
- Flexible page setup, print preview, auto print range
- Export to PNG, JPG, SVG and PDF
- Import and export the WIF interchange format
Weaving
- Drive your loom directly from the screen
- Repeat / single mode, inverse weaving, auto-scrolling
- Supported looms: ARM Patronic, ARM Designer electronic, generic SLIPS (experimental)