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Help Title - “The Hook Map” LJQHelpHookMap.pdf

A hook map provides a method for Manual Creation of Hook Maps Hook Map Auto Scroll
mapping specific warp ends in a design onto
specific pattern hooks in a harness. You can create a hook map manually by You can setup ScotWeave to scroll
simply typing in the warp end numbers at automatically as you move the mouse to the
When there is no hook map in use, the first every (blue) pattern hook on the screen. edge of the hook map. This is done in the
warp end in the design will be sent to the first User Preferences window - look for the
pattern hook in the harness, the second warp To do this, simply move the cursor on top of a Auto Scroll option to switch this off or on.
end to the second pattern hook and so on. blue pattern hook marker and then type in a
warp end value. If you press the Enter key Preset Hook Maps
Sometimes, however, it may be necessary to after this then the cursor will move to the nect
map warp ends to different pattern hooks. This pattern hook, ready for the next warp end. Some commonly used hook maps are
might be to send different parts of the design provided “preset” and can be applied with a
to different areas in the harness or even to Automatic Hook Map Creation single mouse click. These can be found in the
repeat parts of the design in the harness. Hook Map menu.
For a large harness plan, manual entry of
Part of a simple hook map is shown below every warp end value would be very time Terry Towel Hook Maps
consuming. ScotWeave provides several tools
Pattern Hook Warp End to help automate the process. These can be An Auto Terry function is provided to make
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found under the Hook Map menu item and it easier to create terry towel hook maps.
3 2 are described in the separate hook map help
4 14 file. To see this file click the Help icon Before you can select this option you must set
5 3 the Hook Map Type to Terry Towel.
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8 16 Once you have done this the Auto Terry
9 5 function will be available. The controlling
10 17 These tools use the fact that most hook maps dialog allows you to create the following hook
11 6 follow a repeating sequence. You
12 18 map types
13 7 therefore need only enter the first repeat of
etc.. etc.. the sequence and then you can use a tool to 1 ground 1 pile
fill this sequence out to the rest of the harness. 2 ground 2 pile on hooks 1 and 2
The hook map is simply the two sets of
numbers, as shown above, and is used when 2 ground 2 pile on hooks 1 and 3
a loom disk is created to map the warp ends.

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