Fabric technical data sheets have always been a hot topic. Packing a large amount of technical information into a clear, easy-to-read layout that works for different teams is never simple. In the past...
Rulers in printouts look like a trivial feature, but making them truly accurate is surprisingly difficult. We’ve just fine-tuned the ruler in ArahWeave, and the result is a more precise and more...
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...
ArahWeave and ArahPaint can now read Eltex .EJP format of jacquard selvedges. This can be useful if you have old files in this format and you want to weave them on a different loom. For the whole list...
We are pleased to announce that Arahne has met gold creditworthiness criteria for the last three years (2020, 2021, and 2022) and has been awarded a Platinum Creditworthiness Certificate of Excellence...
As customary at the beginning of every year, we prepared a short document presenting a selection of new features developed from January 2022 till January 2023. New features have been developed in Arah...
Nothing is more satisfying than having a tidy working desk and everything in its own place, preferably all the time. In ArahWeave you can now save the default position of the windows you work in. Ever...
We always strive to allow our customers to create their fabric designs efficiently and fast. By adding new functions and tools, we also need to update our tutorials. We have updated one really old sha...
Check out this new tutorial with step-by-step instructions on how to create a drape project in ArahDrape texture mapping software. Starting from the model image, drawing regions, setting the size, app...
In ArahWeave we have added a very useful copy/paste function in several windows. You can copy and paste jacquard image, weaves, fabric image printouts, production cards, selvedge weaves. We have added...
Copy-paste is a very useful function, and we added it to ArahWeave in several windows. Now you can copy/paste images and weaves. We added the copy/paste function in the: main weave editor double weave...
In ArahWeave CAD software designers sometimes start to write warp/weft pattern in a different order than expected in the manufacturing mills. In the fabric design on the image, the pattern started wit...
Please do not upgrade to MacOS 13.0 Ventura just yet. We have posted previously that ArahWeave CAD works correctly with the latest MacOS Ventura. The program does work, but there is a bug in the way X...
ArahPaint6 has a new gradient function, that you can use with any drawing tool, from freehand drawing, draw line, polygon, arc, curve, bezier, circle, ellipse, rectangle, square, fill tool, spray. To ...
The new translation of the ArahPaint User’s Manual in simplified and traditional Chinese is ready! The manual consists of around 110 pages and contains 205 screenshots from ArahPaint software. A...
In ArahWeave, we have increased the maximum length of float correction setting from 255 to 999 threads. For normal fabrics, a float of 255 threads is already very long and we usually want shorter floa...
You can now choose between metric or imperial units directly in ArahPaint. Most of the settings for ArahPaint6, such as units, language, and default image file location can be set in ArahWeave softwar...
Arahne software is already translated into 17 different languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Ru...
Iza Sojka from MOST http://themost.pl, a decorative textile studio, is developing interesting and beautiful tapestries with ArahWeave, woven at Textus https://textus.pl/ You can see the initial pictur...
We made a color profile for ArahWeave on an Epson SureColor SC-P900 printer that has 10 different inks. This means we will get much better results with colors on the printed fabric simulations. The fa...
We are excited to introduce a new product for the design and weaving of name selvedges, ArahWeave Selvedge Edition. The jacquard looms for name selvedges are narrow, so the selvedge edition supports u...
Arahne was established in December 1992, shortly after the international recognition of Slovenia’s independence. So we are celebrating 30 years in business, quite a rare feat for a software comp...
In ArahWeave 9.6g we improved support for Picanol dobby loom. Below are listed the improvements: fringe is properly transferred, so you do not need to edit the file in Picanol software in order for it...
It’s time to upgrade your Arahne software to the latest version and get all the fancy new features! In the previous year, we have made significant improvements, bug fixes, and new functions in A...
In the ArahWeave 9.6c, we have added support for the latest Bonas CI controllers. In ArahWeave you can: – check loom status – load .EP card file from the loom – send .EP card file to...
Irregular effects on the fabric can make your product look more interesting, fun, and unique. In this new tutorial, we show how to design an irregular herringbone, using a combination of weave and ima...
Easily create an image in repeat with overlapping motifs with the new function “Browse repeat image”. Previously we have already introduced this function for “Drawing in repeat”...
With the new Browse repeat image function in the Drawing in repeat window, you can create pattern from a pattern! Simply load the 8-bit pattern image in repeat and let the software generate the same p...
In ArahPaint6 you can design amazing patterns in repeat in just a few seconds using different Filters. All the filters are presented in this Fast pattern manual with a collection of wonderful designs ...
Create a stunning visual effect by superimposing an image layer on the pattern. To create an image in ArahPaint6, you require: – an image of a pattern in repeat for background – an image t...
Load parallel function in ArahWeave allows you to load several different designs parallel to each other and weave them in one piece. The point of this function is to reduce sampling waste. During the ...
In ArahWeave CAD software you can save the production card of your design in a specific loom format. We already support all major dobby and jacquard industrial looms and warpers from Stäubli, Dornier...
With the new file selection dialog, working in ArahWeave and ArahDrape is even faster and more convenient. The file selection dialog has been improved significantly. Many new features were added, such...
In ArahPaint6 you can now create 7 types of patterns from layers in one direction (horizontal or vertical). The 7 types of patterns have been made on the basis of the mathematical frieze pattern, whic...
In ArahView3D you can now apply scanned or photographed fabrics and print designs on the 3D model. Previously you could only apply fabric simulations made in ArahWeave. ArahView3D has a large selectio...
Create corners and other different patterns using mirror diagonal function. You can diagonally mirror the image, layers or selection on the image in four different directions. Try it now! Download the...
Feeling creative with the borders? In ArahPaint6 you can create a border out of the selected image and place it on the right, left, top, bottom side of the main image or all sides at once. &nbs...
We are constantly developing our software, so you can design realistic and ready to weave fabrics as easily and fast as possible. We recently added new textures to ArahWeave CAD, which you can use to ...
With new function enhancement in ArahWeave, you can create a chenille and mohair yarn simulation in Yarn window. First select the type of yarn (Simple, Mouliné, Mélange, Multicolor, Custom) that you...
One year is around and new software features are ready for you to start using them. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, our office remained open the whole time and function normally, so we were able to wor...
Some of our customers manufacture fabric for different brands. Every time they printout the fabric simulation image, they would like to attach the logo of the brand belonging to a certain fabric desig...
