Arahne CAD/CAM for weaving

Design – Weave – Show

CAD/CAM Software Optimized for Dobby and
Jacquard Fabric Design and Weaving.

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ArahWeave

CAD/CAM Software for Woven Fabric

Design realistic dobby and jacquard woven fabrics ready for production, and weave them with our smart loom support. Integrated CAD/CAM software solution for textile industries, weaving mills, converters, design studios and schools.

ArahPaint

Drawing and Image Editing Software

Design patterns in seamless repeat and fabric density using
all the standard tools for drawing and advanced features,
that will boost your creativity

ArahDrape

Texture Mapping Sofware

Drape any kind of model (furniture, clothes, curtains,…) with any kind of texture (fabric, leather, paint,…) in an instant. Easy solution for textile designers, who want to see their design on the final product, and web designers, retailers for presenting and selling their products online.

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Gallery

In our gallery you can discover beautiful designs for shirting, suiting, curtains, blankets, ties, scarves and much more…
All the patterns are made with ArahWeave and ArahPaint.

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15. 9. 2025
Important notice: Do not upgrade to macOS Tahoe yet
We’ve identified a critical issue in the latest macOS Tahoe update. While the ArahWeave software itself is functional, resizing windows may cause certain buttons and interface areas to disappear or ...
21. 11. 2025
From hand draft to digital weave
Converting hand-drawn drafts into digital weaves can be a slow tedious process. While ArahPaint’s Guess weave tool usually does the trick of automatically converting weave images into digital ones, ...
6. 11. 2025
Historic weaves from Jansen’s Textile Design Book now in ArahWeave
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve digitized 1731 weaves from Emil Jansen’s Textile Design Book: A Practical Composition for the Construction of New Designs, originally published in 1898 in P...
8. 10. 2025
Fast design creation with smart weave selection in ArahWeave
At Arahne, we’re always looking for ways to streamline the textile design process while maintaining high-quality results. One of our latest features involves reusing weaves that were originally crea...

Testimonials

"Arahne is a sophisticated and versatile tool for textile designers. Always in evolution with innovations for the textile industry. The service is impeccable."

Miguel Codina

We are the MOST, a decorative fabrics studio. Our passionate team of designers and technologists make, manufacture, deliver and launch printed and jacquard textiles.

I’m the person responsible for processing the designers needs into the jacquard weaves. In the beginning we were quite disappointed with the results of our work. A lot of expensive but unsatisfying samples, wrong colours, distorted patterns and so on. It was essential to have more control on our production.

I must admit everything changed when I started to prepare our fabrics in ArahWeave: we gained the full control on the weaving process without even seeing looms. The most important features of the application for me: amazing performance, great working function of scaling pictures for different weaving densities, brilliant instant visualizations, preview of the colours of the used weaves, lots of useful tips, like information about weaves indivisible per design size, fantastic weave builder, the best user manual, I’ve ever read, the Weft blanket option, which allows to put different fabrics with even different densities to be weaved as one piece. And maybe the most important: unbelievable user assistance - these guys rescued my projects so many times, and patiently answered to all my questions.

Frankly, I cannot imagine my work now without ArahWeave. You can quite reasonably demand impossible.

Iza Sojka
MOST

"ArahWeave changed my way of conceiving fabrics.
It allowed me to make fabrics, that I had only seen in school books.
ArahWeave and ArahPaint have renewed my creative enthusiasm.
I will never thank enough the person who recommended me your CAD."

Alessandro Bacci

“I have been using Arahne's CAD suite for several years now, since I had added electronic jacquards to my weaving mill, it was necessary to automate the Jacquard design process as much as possible. As a design partner, I chose Arahne because it is a very complete, fast and practical program that manages to do its job in an excellent way. The staff of Arahne is always ready to adapt the program according to my needs, thanks to this today I can provide a fast and personalized service to my customers. I love to define this creation of Dušan Peterc, a "Swiss army knife" of CAD for its lightness, adaptability and variety of tools that makes available.”

Davide Sasso
Tessitura Sasso Mario - Mongrando (Biella)

“We have chosen Arahne CAD system because it enables us to use new kind of structures, which is very important for us as a design company. The system is easy to learn and use for our jacquard looms.
Arahne has perfect helpdesk and we have always got the very best training from them.
Arahne gives us great possibility to simulate the fabrics to our and customers and designers before weaving anything. It simply saves time and money.“

Esko Hjelt
Lapuan Kankurit Oy

“As a jacquard artist, I find ArahWeave to be indispensable in developing my designs. Why? ArahWeave makes it easy to construct new weave structures, particularly complex structures that would be difficult or impossible to build in Photoshop. My last piece, "Bipolar Prison," used 29 different weave structures, a mix of satins, twills, and fancy twills in triple weave. These structures were too complex to create in Photoshop, and other jacquard design packages were far too expensive for me (or any other artist) to afford. ArahWeave made constructing these complicated weave structures very simple AND simulated a complicated triple-weave design beautifully. I could not have done this project without ArahWeave.

I would recommend ArahWeave to any artist who wants to do extraordinary things with jacquard design!”

Tien Chiu

Our company has been Arahne's customer for many years.
When choosing the CAD program, we paid attention to the customer's delivery.
Good customer service, listening to customers and development suggestions are taken into account.
Thanks to electronic prints, the approval of the fabric is easy and quick.

Jokipiin Pellava Oy

“An indispensable tool that would revolutionize every design office. After years of using it, I could no longer separate myself from it.
Thank you Dušan and team.”

J. Sergiusti "JUMP"

“ArahWeave is the best CAD software I have ever used.

By using it we completely eliminated the need to create fabric samples by hand. I strongly recommend it.”

Sun Wei
TYTEX

"We have been using Arahne’s CAD for many years. We have 2 workstations in the office, and in these years ArahWeave has evolved with us. We chose Arahne’s CAD for its simplicity, intuitiveness and completeness. After more than 15 years of using it, we can confirm its contribution to our company."

Andrea R.
Tessilbiella srl

I have met Arahne’s CEO, Mr. Dušan Peterc, in the year 2001. I was introduced to him by a dear friend, my companion of Textile School. I remember that I had been struck by the simplicity of how Mr. Peterc had "written" the Arahne textile CAD and the extreme simplicity to use his CAD for fabric design. I think I was one of his first customers in Biella weaving jacquard and therefore very useful. Over the years, Arahne has become most appreciated software along with their professional support.”

Filippo Uecher

“We have been using the Arahne CAD/CAM for weaving since many years not only for our own jacquard designs but mainly for educational purposes, training textile students from Austrian and International universities on industrial Jacquard power looms here at the Textile Centre Haslach. From this experience we can attest the Arahne product family only the best performance, stability and functionality. The program structure is logical and easy to work with. The support, if ever needed, is immediate, outcome-oriented and friendly. A definite job enrichment and one of our dearest partners!”

TEXTILE ZENTRUM HASLACH

“I am Carlo Antonio, owner of the DANZO weaving factory in Valdagno, which has always been involved in the creation of new fabrics and in the search for new techniques for their realization.
To achieve these objectives, we have to build solid ground by the continuous innovation and updating of all the information systems, both the management / production and the planning, and their interconnection.

In Arahne's CAD system, I immediately appreciated the versatility of the program and glimpsed in the owner Dušan Peterc and his team the opportunity to interact to improve our way of creating collections and managing production.

Over the years, I have been able to appreciate Arahne's willingness to develop new tergeted parts of the program, for example: to make design easier and faster, to design remotely, to develop different fabric variants and on-line calculation of fabric production costs.

The extreme competence and professionalism of the entire Arahne team is essential, in order to guarantee the customer the reliability and functioning of the system; something not so common in a field of computer science, where hardware and operating systems continually changes, sometimes creating serious problems of backward compatibility.”

Carlo Antonio DANZO