grid n' weaveit

Windows Grid N' WeaveIt

Grid ‘N WeaveIt is the link between a graphics paint program and weaving. Paint programs such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro or even Windows Paint provide good editing capabilities for creating a graphical picture. However they don’t go the next step needed by weavers. Grid ‘N WeaveIt provides the missing links. Grid N' WeaveIt runs on XP, 7,8, 10. It will not run on Windows 10S.

Design the rug with many drawing tools.

Drawing tools -- triangles, rectangles, circles
Free-hand drawing and erase
Fill with solid, hatching or raised outline
Zoom
Grid lines based on warps
Flexible snaping for cleaner drawing
Copy and Paste
Multiple levels of Undo
Color Replacer

Associate and save weaving information with your graphic.

Print pattern in multiple sizes (small to actual size)

Print Pairs with Navajo

Print Grided Picture

Print Cartoons

Create color palettes to match your yarns.

Associate Yarn company or custom title with palette
No limit on number of custom colors and names
Can create color palette based on colors in image
Can map colors in image to closest color in your palette

Navajo Weaving

Create Motifs, save them and re-use as needed in the design

Create Motifs and save them for later use
Copy and rotate to paste in rug pattern.

Tapestry Weaving

Import graphic pictures and size to your weaving size.

Take a photo. Modify in your photo editor. Import into Grid 'N WeaveIt to add grid and cartoon.

Draw a cartoon on a separate layer

Draw the picture, Trace the cartoon over the picture, view & print the cartoon separately

Rug Weaving

Generate WIF files to import into your weaving software.

Draw picture in Grid'N WeaveIt. Then generate a WIF file that can be imported into WeaveIt Pro.

Generate BMP file suitable to import into WeaveIt Pro to provide more flexibility for generating weaving drafts.

Create the drawing in Grid 'N WeaveIt with its many drawing capabilities
Export image to WeaveIt Pro bitmap image. Each warp is reduced to single pixel.
Open in WeaveIt Pro Taquete Window. Use the many options of WeaveIt to generate draft.