The straight draw tool
Click and drag to expand the red rectangle along the line of the required diagonal, as described for drawing the threading (step A shown at left). The complete tieup is then built up from a series of diagonal strokes of the mouse, steps B, C and D, below. Many steps are required to go from step C to step D; not all of them are shown in this diagram - see if you can work out what's needed. |
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Unlike the threading, which strictly allows only one shaft per warp end, several shafts can be tied up to each treadle. The additional diagonal strokes in steps B or C add to the overlapping diagonals of earlier steps, rather than replacing them as would happen in the threading. | ![]() |
With the straight, point, line or freehand drawing tools (except network), the mouse may also be used to click single grid squares one by one. Double click or Option-single click turns a black square white. If the drawing stroke is initiated with a double click etc, you can draw a diagonal of white squares across a black area. If you have a two-button mouse, single right click can beu sed instead of double click or Option-click. | ![]() |
See also: Keyboard entry in tieup | Next |