Preparing a digital jacquard design for production requires more than simply creating the right visual pattern. The design also needs to match the technical specifications of the weaving machine, incl...
Great news for all Arahne users working on Apple Silicon devices: ArahWeave now runs correctly on macOS Golden Gate 27.0. To ensure a smooth upgrade experience, just follow two quick steps: Install th...
Arahne has completed a unique summer project: the full digitization of 黑白经纬织物组织设计图集 下册 (Atlas of Black‑and‑White Warp and Weft Fabric Weave Design, Volume II) by Shen G...
In the new version of ArahWeave 10.5 we have upgraded our compression engine from zlib to Zstd and tested it on a real customer dataset of 10,000 files. The benefits are immediate: Smaller files: depe...
Designers spend hours inside their tools, and the interface becomes part of the creative environment. With the new dark mode in ArahPaint6 for macOS, we wanted to deliver more than a color inversion. ...
We’ve upgraded the Averaging and Despeckle tools in ArahPaint, turning them into standalone features with dedicated dialog windows. This gives you clearer control over all parameters and an immediat...
We’ve expanded the flexibility of variable density in ArahWeave CAD software. Some looms define density through a pattern where each letter represents a different weft density. We initially supporte...
Designing complex warp and weft patterns just became dramatically faster. With the latest update in ArahWeave, you can now paste a full warp or weft pattern directly from an image, eliminating the nee...
Dark mode is officially coming to ArahWeave, and while it may look like a simple visual option, it’s the result of a thoughtful redesign aimed at improving real weaving workflows. We work inside the...
Accurate color is essential when moving from digital fabric design to physical samples, especially when working with PANTONE references, spectrophotometer‑measured yarn colors, or production‑criti...
We’ve expanded the ArahPaint manual with new chapters designed to make your textile design workflow faster, clearer, and more efficient. Whether you work with fabric design software, pattern softwar...
Designers searching for weaving CAD software often face the same challenge: complex weave structures can be difficult to read, especially when working with advanced jacquard or dobby weaving. With ou...
Arahne is stepping into the art world once again. We’re proud to share that our technology and expertise are part of the newly opened exhibition “Knots and Patterns 2026”, hosted at Stolp Škrlo...
Apple’s latest M‑series computers (M1 through M4) use a fundamentally different hardware architecture and USB framework than traditional PCs. To deliver a consistent, reliable experience for every...
Many modern CAD tools have moved toward cloud‑first ecosystems, and plenty of users feel the strain. It’s not just longing for the era when you could save a file to your own drive and know it was ...
Excited to share NEHHDC’s stunning design made in ArahWeave CAD/CAM software showcasing the journey of Eri silk, often called “fabric of peace”, from red cocoon to high-end stoles presen...
ArahPaint has a new Spacing parameter in Stamp mode, giving you control over the distance between brushes. As you draw continuously, the spacing between brushes remains consistent. You can hold Ctrl (...
The 2025 development cycle delivers more than 915 enhancements across ArahWeave, ArahPaint6, and ArahDrape — all focused on improving speed, stability, and everyday workflow efficiency. Highlights M...
We’ve created a custom color profile for Epson’s latest EcoTank photo printers, the ET‑8500 (A4) and ET‑8550 (A3). Both models come equipped with a built‑in scanner and use a six‑color...
We’ve added a new space‑saving feature in ArahWeave to optimize the generation of fabric technical data. When converting HTML to PDF or embedding images directly into HTML to create a single file,...
As textile design increasingly relies on fabric simulations, we often prefer to skip physical printouts and send image files directly to customers for approval. Formats like JPEG or WebP are convenien...
ArahWeave stores fabric technical data in HTML format, along with images such as the customer’s logo, fabric simulations, and weave. However, when sharing or copying the HTML file, the associated im...
Converting hand-drawn drafts into digital weaves can be a slow tedious process. While ArahPaint’s Guess weave tool usually does the trick of automatically converting weave images into digital ones, ...
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve digitized 1731 weaves from Emil Jansen’s Textile Design Book: A Practical Composition for the Construction of New Designs, originally published in 1898 in P...
At Arahne, we’re always looking for ways to streamline the textile design process while maintaining high-quality results. One of our latest features involves reusing weaves that were originally crea...
We’ve digitized a new collection of patterns from Co Spinhoven: Celtic Charted Designs. While this book focuses on needlecraft rather than weaving, many of the patterns can be interpreted as wea...
We’re excited to announce a major update for our global user community: ArahWeave and ArahDrape now offer full support for Chinese character input across all windows on Linux systems. This enhanceme...
We’ve identified a critical issue in the latest macOS Tahoe update. While the ArahWeave software itself is functional, resizing windows may cause certain buttons and interface areas to disappear or ...
ArahPaint6 now supports its own native .ARI format, allowing users to save images with layers. At Arahne, we’ve always used standard formats. That’s why our paint program originally saved files in...
We added a new feature that gives you more control and flexibility: you can now update your software on your own—no need to wait or contact support. To update, simply go to Help, click on Download u...
Thanks to Joaquim Alves Pereira our ArahWeave Dobby and Jacquard Quick Start instructions are now translated to Portuguese. In addition to Portuguese, Quick Start instructions are currently offered in...
With a surge of AI platforms now available online—each offering unique features for image generation and editing—I explored a selection of these tools to evaluate their potential in textile patter...
Arahne participated in the 50th International Symposium on Novelties in Textiles, held on May 29–30, 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Organized by the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Univer...
Did you miss any of our short video tutorials? No problem! We’ve compiled all our ArahPaint and ArahWeave short video tutorials in one place on our YouTube channel, making them easy to find with...
Arahne began developing shading as early as 1996, initially using a black and white warp combined with six colors in the weft. By 2003, we expanded our approach to tapestry construction, using six col...
Wood patterns have always been a source of inspiration for textile designers. They can be printed or woven jacquards. In this video we show how to create a walnut burl veneer pattern in ArahPaint. Wal...
We developed a special tool in ArahWeave’s Weave browser, which marks the weaves with errors with high probability. The program assumes there’s errors on the weaves by calculating the ...
We’re excited to announce that Arahne will be exhibiting at Filo – International Yarns Exhibition from 26th till 27th February in Milan. Welcome to visit us and check out our latest new de...
We issued new release notes in English and Italian containing a selection of new features developed throughout the last year, from January 2024 to January 2025. You will find new interesting functions...
We have digitized a new collection of weaves from a book “Colecciones de Dibujos para Tejidos” by Hermias Busqué Gisbert, published in 1897, Tarrasa in Spain. We added the entire collecti...
Are you ready for a new era in fabric development? Arahne and Gemell are collaborating to provide a whole new digital experience for textile product development. You may now develop your entire produc...
In the ArahWeave fabric printout, we added the option to show a single yarn simulation under yarn colors. Previously, ArahWeave could only show the colors that are present in the yarn. For example, in...
PANTONE® has just introduced 175 new colors to the PANTONE FASHION, HOME + INTERIORS Color System. The 98 new colors are nicknamed “New age pastels”, while the remaining 77 are called ...
During the summer, we have inserted in ArahWeave another 1000 weaves, this time not from a collection of weaves, but from an Italian weaving textbook from 100 years ago. Oscarre Giudici, Tessuti di La...
Superimpose weave is a technique for constructing new weaves by layering one or more weaves on top of the other. In the video below we used an example from Oscarre Giudici’s book Tessuti di Lana...
We added a new smart function in ArahPaint6 that shows used colors in a design in rows and columns. It is very useful for making corrections on larger images consisting of several colors, to detect an...
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Our ArahWeave CAD program already has a large collection of weaves included in the standard installation. The enitre weave database has about 41.000 weaves. The weaves were collected and digitized fro...
In ArahWeave, ArahDrape and ArahPaint you can now set custom date format. You can set the following: the order of date elements (date, month, year) display month name or month number display full year...
We are exciting to introduce a new and unique function in ArahPaint6 with which you can rotate and zoom the brush pattern. When drawing with brushes you can set the angle and zoom of the brush pattern...
We issued a new short document containing a selection of new features developed throughout the last year, from January 2023 to January 2024. You will find new interesting functions in ArahWeave and Ar...
In this video tutorial you will learn how to create a multi-layer dobby fabric in ArahWeave, where the layers are self-stitched with the warp yarn. This type of weaves are common in technical fabrics,...
ArahPaint6 jacquard drawing program is now also available in Persian (Farsi), thanks to Bert Pols and Hamidreza Ghabraee of Stäubli. The Mac version still keeps menu orientation left to right, while ...
In ArahWeave you can now rotate an image at an angle in seamless repeat! It’s not as simple as it sounds to rotate an image at a specific angle and maintaining the repeat at the same time. Our c...
Our program employs Unicode UTF-8 encoding by default to ensure that each user can construct filenames that include both standard and special characters from their native language. To use it with Arah...
A new collection of wrinkles is now available for your use! We have gathered over 90 distinct wrinkle images for you to use in your fabric simulation. What is the purpose of wrinkles? If you want to a...
Numerous jacquard manufacturers support multi-floppy jacquard formats (Stäubli JC3, JC4, JC5, Bonas, Grosse) and ArahWeave supported splitting and saving of a single card file on multiple floppies. H...
In the ArahWeave Weave Editor window use the quadruple function for the simple creation of quadruple weaves with clockwise or anticlockwise rotation. This is one of the classical approaches for creati...
ArahWeave now supports direct color measurements from Nix Spectro 2, a professional-grade, pocket-sized, and cost-effective spectrophotometer. You can import measurements from Nix Spectro 2 and save t...
