Chapter three

Moods and weather

Ten weathers, each with its own way of moving the pile and catching the light. Press a number to change the weather; hold shift to change the cloth too.

How moods work

A mood sets how the weather moves, how the pile holds itself, and how the yarn shines.

Press 1 to 0, or click a name in the row under the top bar. The motif and colours of your rug stay as they are. To bring a mood’s own motif and colours as well, hold ⇧ as you press its number or click its name.

A mood is only a starting point. Every slider it moved is still yours to change afterwards. Choosing a mood also sets knots back to 220, ply to 4 and fade to 0.05.

1 · wool · kolam

breeze

light air from the south, small gusts

A light breeze with soft eddies and small gusts over a short wool pile. The default, and the best mood for seeing a motif clearly.

2 · silk · ikat

waves

a slow swell rolls under the cloth

Hardly any wind across the top. Instead a long swell rolls under the rug and lifts the cloth in slow waves.

3 · wool · medallion

storm

a cyclone tears across at double speed

Weather at double speed: strong wind, whirling eddies and hard gusts through a tall pile.

4 · silk · check

rain

heavy drops beat the pile down

Fast, flickering gusts and a heavy weight that keeps pressing the pile down, like rain on grass.

5 · silk · field

underwater

no weight, the threads float

No weight at all. Long silk threads float upward and drift slowly, with bright tips.

6 · wool · kilim

fire

the pile licks upward, tips aglow

Fast flicker, rising threads and strong light from behind, so the tips glow like flames.

7 · velvet · medallion

whirlwind

slow whirls wander the field

Almost still air, but whirls wander across the velvet and swirl the pile as they pass.

8 · velvet · temple

stillness

hardly a breath; draw in the velvet

Nearly no wind over a short, dense velvet, and your marks never fade. The mood for drawing with your hand.

9 · silk · stripes

gale

a cold north wind lays it flat

A strong, steady wind that lays the whole pile down in one direction, with a high silk sheen.

0 · wool · stripes

windswept

open wind over long shag

Brisk wind and gusts through long, twisted shag. Broad stripes stay readable when the pile is this long.

The wind tabEverything a mood sets, by hand.

Weather
tempo	How much the weather does inside one loop. At 0 most of it stops.	0–6
loop	How long before the weather returns to its start. Also the length of a seamless loop video.	6 · 12 · 20 · 40 s

Flow
force	A steady push along the heading.	0–1.5
heading	A dial: the direction the wind blows towards. 0° points to the rug’s right edge.	0–359°
eddies	Swirling turbulence that stirs the pile without bunching it.	0–1.5
eddy size	Small, busy eddies or broad ones.	0–1
whirls	Wandering vortices, three to six of them, turning opposite ways.	0–1.5
gusts	The wind swells and drops in patches across the rug.	0–1

Swell
swell	A wave travelling along the heading, pushing the pile back and forth.	0–1.5
wavelength	Short, choppy waves or long rollers.	0–1
billow	The cloth itself rises and falls with the swell.	0–1

Air or water
shiver	A fast flutter at the tips.	0–1
float	The threads rise, as under water.	0–1
weight	A pull downwards on every thread.	0–1
breath	The whole weather swells and settles.	0–1

Sound
listen	Off, a song from your computer (it plays on repeat), or the microphone. Low notes push the wind and swell the breath, a beat kicks up gusts, the middle stirs eddies, and high notes make the tips shiver.	off · a song · mic
reach	How far sound moves the wind.	0–1
hearing	Three bars, low, middle and high, as Woven Wind hears them.

Sound moves the live rug only. Videos keep the weather’s own clock, so they stay silent and loops still close. A song plays from your own computer; the microphone is heard inside the tab and never recorded or sent, and your browser asks first.

Double-click any slider to put it back to Woven Wind’s starting value.