The Reorder Tool
The reorder tool lets you rearrange the order of shafts and treadles by dragging. Select it from the toolbar — it's grouped under the structural editing tools. When active, you can grab a shaft or treadle row and drag it to a new position.
Reordering Shafts
Drag a shaft row in the threading grid to move it up or down. All the threading data on that shaft moves with it. The drawdown updates immediately to reflect the new shaft order. This is useful when you want to rearrange your threading without manually repainting every cell — just pick up the shaft and drop it where you want it.
Reordering Treadles
The same drag interaction works for treadles. Grab a treadle column in the tieup grid and move it left or right. The tieup and treadling data follow. In liftplan mode, reordering applies to the shaft rows of the liftplan grid instead.
The Insert Tool
The insert tool adds a blank warp or weft at a specific position. Select it from the toolbar, then click between two existing warps or wefts on the canvas. A new empty column (warp) or row (weft) appears at that spot, shifting everything after it. Use this to open up space in the middle of your draft for new design elements.
The Delete Tool
The delete tool removes warps or wefts. Select it, then drag across a range to select which warps or wefts to remove. The selected range highlights, and releasing confirms the deletion. Everything after the deleted range shifts to close the gap.
When to Reorder vs. Resize
Reorder when you want to rearrange existing shafts or treadles without changing the total count. Insert and delete when you need to add or remove individual warps or wefts at specific positions. Resize (in Loom Setup) when you want to change the overall dimensions — adding or removing from the edges of the draft. Each serves a different purpose: reorder restructures, insert/delete adjusts locally, resize scales globally.