FAQ

Bower is Asunder’s browser-based weaving draft app for building, editing, and exporting weaving drafts in a modern visual workspace.

No. Bower runs directly in your browser, so you can open it online and start working immediately.

Bower is for textile artists, weaving students, educators, and makers who want a simple way to build and test weaving drafts digitally.

The current Experiment toggle in Display Settings reveals the Profile section, the Direct Edit section, and the Import from Image toolbar action. Some direct-edit-adjacent controls such as Optimize Loom also live in that experimental surface right now.

Yes, but Direct Edit is currently behind the Experiment button in Display Settings. Once enabled, you can paint on the drawdown itself, run a feasibility check, and accept a decomposition back into loom structure.

Yes. Bower can optimize a draft into a more compact loom setup, and Direct Edit can also show trade-offs when a staged drawdown is not feasible within the current limits. At the moment, these controls live inside the experimental Direct Edit workflow.

Yes. Bower supports WIF import and export, along with its native .bower project format for saving and reloading drafts. Legacy .loom project files still import correctly.

Yes, but the Import from Image action is currently behind the Experiment button. It opens an image-based draft import workflow for converting a photographed or scanned drawdown into a Bower draft.

Yes. Bower supports both tieup+treadling and liftplan workflows, and can convert between those representations inside the editor.

Yes, but profile drafting is currently behind the Experiment button. When enabled, a Profile section appears below Loom Setup and lets you work with built-in unit weave structures such as Summer and Winter, Bronson lace, Huck lace, Halvdräll, turned twill blocks, and multishaft overshot variants.

Yes. Bower can export PNG, PDF, and WIF. PDF export also includes a print-at-actual-size mode using EPI and PPI settings.

Bower was briefly renamed to Loom Studio. It has been renamed back. `.bower` is the native project extension, and legacy `.loom` project files still import correctly.