Loom

Loom weaves your pictures. A taut warp of fine vertical threads is always there, and the picture is the weft: one horizontal thread per row, each carrying its row of the image. A waiting picture is a sparse grey weave with the warp showing through.

How it works

When a picture becomes the active one, a soft diagonal wave crosses it from the top left. Under the wave each weft thread swells to fill its row and takes its colour, until the cloth is closed and the warp disappears under the picture. Leaving runs the wave back and the picture unravels to grey. A faint brightening, the shuttle, rides on the wave while it weaves. In Reveal mode the cursor swells and colours the grey weave where it passes.

Settings

• Warp and Weft: how many threads run across and down a picture. Fewer gives a coarse tapestry.
• Weave time and Unravel time: seconds to close a picture and to undo it.
• Wave and Slant: the softness of the weaving wave and how diagonal it runs.
• Thread: the thickness of the weft threads in a waiting picture.
• Shuttle and Shuttle color: the light on the wave.
• Warp glow and Warp color: how much the warp shows.

Use it for

Textile and craft brands, fashion, slow graphic reveals on a portfolio page. For threads of light instead of yarn, see Light Threads; for real hanging cloth, see Silk.