Color Catalogue and project start modal
Browse 1146 curated colors organized by hue and get into your drafts faster with a new welcome screen.
- Color Catalogue with 1146 Asunder Colors organized by hue family
- Click any color in the catalogue to set it as your active drawing color
- New welcome screen on launch with quick actions: New Project, Open File, Import WIF, Import from Image
- What's New section showing recent updates inside the welcome screen
- Language picker accessible from the welcome screen header
Yarn simulation and fiber properties
See how your draft will look as woven cloth with real-time 3D yarn rendering. Set fiber properties per yarn for realistic results.
- Yarn simulation showing how your draft interlaces as woven fabric
- Per-yarn fiber settings in the properties panel: diameter, twist angle, ply count, and bending stiffness
- 18 material presets to quickly match your yarn (cotton, silk, wool, linen, bamboo, and more)
- Hardware-accelerated rendering for large drafts
- Interlacement structure derived from your threading and treadling
Threading tracker, yardage estimation, and Japanese
Follow your threading and treadling step by step at the loom, calculate how much yarn you need before you start, and use Bower in Japanese.
- Threading and treadling tracker tab to follow your sequence at the loom, group by group
- Color strips in the tracker showing the yarn color for each end and pick at a glance
- Configurable group size so you can advance through threading in chunks that match your workflow
- Yardage estimation with per-yarn breakdown including takeup, shrinkage, loom waste, sampling, and overage
- Finished cloth dimensions calculated from your EPI, PPI, and warp/weft lengths
- Info tab with version info and feedback links
- Japanese language support (6 languages total: English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Japanese)
- Imperial/metric unit toggle that automatically switches based on your language
- Bower website pages now available in all supported languages
New end/pick insertion tool, French language support, view settings & more
Our first feature update expanding Bower with more design tools, language support, layout customization, and a new pattern gallery on the website.
- English, French, Spanish, German, and Swedish language support
- Insert/delete end-pick tools with new subtoolbar system
- Draft view settings: flip warp axis, flip treadling axis, toggle fabric face vs. structure
- Expanded and audited threading preset library with corrected names
- Float analysis with configurable max length and per-axis toggles
- Widened beam search and split optimize-loom into per-axis controls
- Browser compatibility fixes for older devices
- Autosave crash protection and import file corruption validation
Bower is live
The first public release of Bower -- a free, browser-based weaving draft editor for dobby loom planning, structure exploration, and direct visual editing.
- Tieup + treadling and liftplan drafting modes with conversion between them
- Yarn coloring system to preview color choices in weaving designs
- WIF import and export for your weaving workflow
- PDF export with print-at-actual-size mode using EPI and PPI settings
- Native .bower project format to save projects