These buttons select what action the mouse takes when you click and
drag in the drawdown frame. The tool options reproduce the options in the Drawing menu.
Those tools with a red rectangle outline actually draw, and the remaining tools perform other
actions with drawing suspended.
Only one of the tools can be selected at
any one time.
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Straight draw button; this button is shown in its selected state. |
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Point draw button; this and the remaining buttons are in the unselected state. |
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Line draw button. |
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Freehand draw button. |
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Network draw left twill. |
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Network draw right twill. |
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Rectangle Selection tool; drawing is disabled while this button remains selected. Select one of the drawing tools above to resume drawing. |
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Color Pickup tool; use this tool to reselect a color in warp or weft color bars. After use, the color pickup tool restores the previous drawing tool. |
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Shaft Shuffler; use this tool to rearrange the order of shafts or treadles. Drawing is disabled while this tool remains selected. Select one of the drawing tools to resume normal drawing. |