The purpose of this study is to address workflow fragmentation in conventional fabric weave design, where weave drafting, fabric preview, file export and loom-side data transfer are often handled through separate tools or manual operations. This paper presents an integrated, lightweight, web-based platform for interactive woven fabric design, Canvas-based fabric visualization and LAN-based loom data distribution, aiming to improve cross-platform accessibility, design-data continuity and sampling preparation efficiency in digital weaving environments.
The platform was implemented using a browser-based front end based on the HTML5 Canvas API and native JavaScript, together with a lightweight Node.js/Express data distribution service for local-area-network deployment. The system supports professional weave-symbol drawing, left/right mouse-button configuration, grid-based linkage among the fabric weave diagram, drafting plan and lifting plan, adjustable yarn arrangement, material-related rendering parameters and DY-format export. Instead of full three-dimensional physically based rendering, the visualization module adopts a lightweight Canvas-based rendering strategy that combines weave-matrix interpretation, yarn colour arrangement, procedural texture and simplified light-shadow effects. Experimental evaluation included drawing response-time measurement, expert-based visual consistency assessment of simulated fabrics against real samples and stability testing of LAN-based file distribution for the SGA598 full-automatic rapier sampling loom.
The drawing module achieved average response times below 30 ms for weave diagrams up to 500 × 500 cells, indicating that the platform can support real-time interactive editing under the tested conditions. In the expert visual consistency evaluation, the chemical-fibre fabric simulation achieved an overall mean score of 4.22/5, while the cotton fabric simulation achieved an overall mean score of 3.96/5. The results suggest acceptable visual consistency, although light-shadow expression received lower scores than texture reproduction, indicating that lighting simulation remains a limitation of the current Canvas-based model. The LAN-based data distribution test achieved 100% successful upload and download/import operations in the controlled SGA598 sampling-loom environment, with an average latency of less than 250 ms, demonstrating baseline stability under the tested local-network scenario and reducing reliance on removable storage devices in this context.
This study presents a lightweight browser-based implementation that integrates fabric weave drafting, grid-based drafting/lifting-plan linkage, Canvas-based fabric visualization, DY-format export and LAN-based loom-file distribution into a unified workflow. Its originality lies not in replacing existing textile CAD/CAM or simulation systems, but in connecting the practical stages of weave editing, fabric preview, loom-readable file generation and local data distribution for sampling-loom preparation. The platform provides a workflow-oriented approach for improving design-to-loom data continuity in the tested SGA598 sampling-loom scenario, while future extension to other loom systems will require additional file-format adapters and communication interfaces.
