Loomcraft draws cloth the way a loom makes it — one crossing at a time.
Set the colours running down the warp and across the weft, choose a structure, and the grid resolves each intersection into a thread passing over or under its neighbour. The result reads as fabric rather than as coloured squares, which is the whole difference between a pattern and a textile. Plain weave, twill, satin and basket are all there, and so is the behaviour that separates them.
Beyond that it is a place to experiment: paint whole columns and rows, stamp in stripes, checks, diamonds and folk bands, mirror the work with a symmetry helper, and tile the repeat to see how the cloth would carry on past its edge. The thread count is tracked as you go. Pieces are kept with their structure and their palette, so a finished draft can be reopened, refined, or recoloured without losing the first version.
A loom can weave a five-end satin and a seven-end satin. A regular six-end satin does not exist, and no amount of skill will produce one.
A satin is built by stepping the single riser along a fixed number of ends in each successive pick. For the cloth to come out even, that step has to visit every end exactly once before returning — and it must never land next door to the riser below it, or the float breaks and the weave becomes a twill. Those two conditions are arithmetic, not craft, and they rule out whole sizes of satin altogether.
Five ends admit steps of 2 and 3, so there are 2 regular satins — the familiar five-end satin and its mirror. Every riser sits clear of the one below it, and each warp thread floats over four picks before it is bound down.
Three repeats of the draft. Dark threads are warp lifted over weft. Steps of 1 and n−1 are excluded because they stack diagonally into a twill instead of scattering, which is why the count is φ(n) minus two and never φ(n).
What is not on this page: the app's thread and backdrop textures, its motif stamps, its palettes and its gallery. The rule above belongs to weaving itself and has been in drafting books since long before anyone wrote software for it. It tells you nothing about how Loomcraft behaves under your hand.
Four things worth stating without decoration.
There is nothing at the far end of a connection, because no connection is opened. The app behaves the same way on a train with no signal as it does at a desk.
Nothing to join and nothing to sign. The gallery is a folder the application keeps to itself on the handset.
No ad framework is linked in and nothing counts what you do. Were that ever to change, the policy would be redrawn first and the build would come along behind it.
Yours, and they stay on the handset that charted them. Not one has ever been seen from this end, there being nothing built that could fetch it.
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