WeavingGem helps handweavers keep their place while threading, treadling, and weaving from a WIF draft or pattern. Use your favorite drafting tool or pattern library, then track every step at the loom.
Physical beads, counters, and songs have served weavers for generations. Our digital weave tracker brings that same familiar approach to your screen.
The large digital beads make it easy to see exactly where you are. Gentle sounds and animations let you know you are making progress. This allows you to keep your focus on your weaving instead of losing your place in a paper pattern.
Big, bright beads track every thread and pick. They are easy to read from your weaving bench, even with reading glasses on.
Import your WIF draft from Fiberworks, Bower, or any drafting tool, then adjust the colors to match your physical yarn before you begin.
Your weaving drafts are entirely safe. Everything stays on your device, and you do not need a Wi-Fi connection to weave at your loom. WeavingGem saves your progress automatically. Step away and come back days later, right where you left off.
Choose treadles or shafts display and jack or counterbalance loom type. WeavingGem adapts the session to how you weave. Choose right to left or left to right threading to match how you work at the warp.
Turn on Voice Control in Session settings to advance or step back without touching the screen. Say next or back with your hands on the loom. Read more about voice control.
A small mic indicator shows when listening is active. Speech recognition runs on your device only; nothing you say is recorded or sent.
Start a session on iPhone and your watch follows along. Tap to advance, swipe to reverse, one gemstone bead at a time, without reaching for your phone.
On supported Apple Watch models, enable Double Tap to advance with one hand while the other stays on the heddles or shuttle.
We are currently inviting weavers to try the app for free. Try WeavingGem at your loom today and discover how much easier weaving feels when you never lose your place.
Quick answers before you try WeavingGem at your loom.
WeavingGem is a weaving tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It helps you keep your place while threading, treadling, and weaving from WIF drafts and patterns. It is not a pattern drafting app.
Yes. Turn on Voice Control in Session settings during a threading or weaving session, then say next or back to advance or step back without touching the screen. Speech recognition runs on your device only. Nothing you say is recorded or sent. See how to use Voice Control for setup steps, or read the voice control update.
No. You can design in Fiberworks, Bower, or your favorite drafting tool, or start from a WIF pattern library such as Handweaving.net or Handwoven Magazine. WeavingGem tracks your weaving progress at the loom.
WeavingGem imports standard .wif files from Files, AirDrop, or email. Threading, treadling, tie-up, and colors come through. Drafts from four through sixteen shafts are supported.
Yes. Your drafts and progress stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded to the cloud, and no account is required to weave at the loom.
Yes. When a threading or weaving session is open on iPhone, the Apple Watch companion can show your place and let you advance from your wrist. Apple Watch pairs with iPhone only, not iPad. See how to use the Apple Watch companion for setup steps.
Join the free TestFlight beta using the signup form on this page. Apple emails you an install link for iPhone or iPad.
WeavingGem is still being polished before release. We are inviting weavers like you to test it and tell us when it is ready, or what still needs work. Use the signup form above for early access and to be notified when it goes live on the Apple App Store.
Looking for how-to guides for threading, weaving, Voice Control, or WeavingGem Pro?
Browse how-to guidesStill stuck? Email weavinggem@gmail.com.
Say next or back hands-free at the loom. Speech recognition runs on your device only.
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