The Weaver

by astoeth
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Loom are a very old tech, why not using one to try to match the patterns that all those clients are asking for ?
You get a pattern to reproduce on the right of your room, reproduce it in the loom and deliver your production to the counter, if the product match, you'll get a new order !

Controls :

WASD To Move
E To Interact

Inside the loom, you can control everythng with the mouse or :

QWE Are Shortcuts to use the shuttles

IOP[] Are Shortcuts for the frames

Space Is the Shortcut for the Beater

The Loom have 4 interaction points, one at top to setup vertical strings (Warp), one on the left to setup horizontal strings (the Weft with shuttles), the bottom one allow to use the loom and finally on the right you could get the fabric (once weaved)

Important ! Inside the loom, on the top right you could enter the configuration menu for the vertical pattern to duplicate your strings and the number of frames that you'll want to use, you start with only two and some of the patterns asked needs more !

You are stuck ? Here is the base solution for each of them, the pattern recognition only check the colors of each pixel and not the direction of the string, so there might be a lot of other solutions (I'm not sure about the technical terms i put in the title):

Level 1 : White Plain Weave
!> Using the default setup of the loom (Repeat / 2 Frames), add a white string on both side and alternate the frame 1-2 between each line

Level 2 : Red and Blue Chessboard Plain Weave
!> Using the default setup of the loom (Repeat / 2 Frames), add a blue string on top and a red one on the left, and alternate the frame 1-2 between each line. Make sure to start with the right frame up (should be the first one)

Level 3 : Green and white horizontal lines Basketweave
!> Using the default setup of the loom (Repeat / 2 Frames), add a white and a green string (in this order) on top, and a white and a green string on the left. In this one you should repeat each line twice before inversion (1-1-2-2) (with the same pattern on shuttles : White-White-Green-Green)

Level 4 : Black and White point twill
!> This is the first level that needs to change the loom settings (when in interaction from the bottom, click on the gears top right) to put 4 frames (Could keep the Repeat pattern). Put a white string on top, a black one left and alternate the frames with two of them up each line following this pattern in loop : (1,2)-(2,3)-(3,4)-(2,3)

Level 5: Satin French Flag
!> You need to put the loom in (Bands / 5 frames) mode, add blue, white and red strings on top (in this order) and a white string on left. Then alternatethe frames with 4 of them up each time following this pattern : (2,3,4,5) - (1,3,4,5) - (1,2,4,5) - (1,2,3,5) - (1,2,3,4) That you can also view a a reversed 1-2-3-4-5. I find it easier on this one to use the mouse for the frames and the keyboard for shuttles and beater

Level 6: Tartan (with the wrong armor, because it was late)
!> You need to put the loom in (Repeat / 4 frames) mode, add on top (in order) : 4xRed, 2xGreen, Yellow, 2x Green, 4xBlue. add on left red, green, yellow. Then the frames should be put over following this pattern : (1,2)-(3,4), at the same time, the shuttles should follow the following pattern : 4xRed, 2xGreen, 1xYellow, 2xGreen (and repeat).

Note on the Tartan:
!> The mistake is in the model to reproduce and will be validated with the solution method, but a real Tartan seem to be supposed to use a pattern of the form (1,2)-(2,3)-(3,4)-(4,1) AND Should have the same pattern vertically and horizontally (but i limited the number of shuttles to 3 for visibility). Just wanted to note that here in case some angry scottish feel insulted : It's a mistake and i'm sorry (It's hard to reproduce a tartan on a 32px grid anyway)

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Comments5

Nursultan20 Oct 2026, 08:23
Nice work! Really fun
Taximan98120 Oct 2026, 08:27
What a creative idea! Solving the patterns was actualyl really fun, and I feel like I know how a loom works now (or at least a little better). Unfortunately, by the time I had solved the green and white combo, I had made so many failed iterations that I had to call it there. With some UX improvements like swapping out thread better and I'd genuinely play this! Amazing job!
tenthousandfireants
tenthousandfireants20 Oct 2026, 21:40
I like the color scheme and the clean feel of the graphics. The task at hand was kinda hard to wrap my head around but eventually I was able to figure out how to get the first white pattern. I could see this being a very successful cozy game!
Vandervas Generator20 Oct 2026, 21:42
This is a super cool take on the theme - I would have loved more in-game guidance to get used to the controls, but it was really interesting to learn about simple loom patterns!
Profugo Barbatus
Profugo Barbatus20 Oct 2026, 22:04
Quite impressed with this! I'll fully admit to making it to the 6th pattern, looking at it a bit and going "yea, no..." so don't know what's past that. That aside, its quite fun, and as a general fan of preindustrial manufacturing, this hit exactly in my own interests, so was glad to see it represented! Visually I think its exactly what it needs to be, so well done!

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