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Textile CAD software is moving beyond fabric design into yarn creation. New 3D yarn simulation tools can reproduce a yarn's structure, behaviour and appearance on screen, offering benefits for designers.

When AI image generators arrived, textile designers feared replacement. Two years on, the technology has shifted from a creative rival to a practical tool that handles the tedious, repetitive tasks of textile design.

In the early 1980s, when most of the textile industry still relied on centuries old methods, a self taught weaver in Brittany was quietly revolutionizing fabric design.

For decades, dobby weave design software followed a single, unspoken rule: power had to come at the price of complexity. The most established tools in the industry built their reputation...

Look around the room you are sitting in. The chair, the curtains, the cushion, the cover of the book on the shelf, perhaps the case on your phone. Woven fabric, or the look of it, is everywhere.

Ask any Jacquard designer what slows them down, and the answer is rarely a lack of talent or ideas. It is the machinery around the idea: the jump from one program to another...

For more than two centuries, Jacquard weaving has stood as one of the most demanding crafts in textiles. Turning an image into a woven Jacquard meant weeks of painstaking technical work.

Two years ago, the tufting and carpet tile design industry faced an unexpected crisis. APSO, the dominant software solution for carpet and tuft designers worldwide, abruptly discontinued operations.