The InkScape plugins are bundled together in a single installation package. InkScape is a powerful general purpose vector based drawing tool, like these bobbin lace tools it is free of charge and free to change or improve at your own discretion.
Diagrams |
The screenshot snippets show either pair diagrams or thread diagrams of a rose ground, which differs from a Flanders ground by using four pairs per pin versus two pairs per pin. |
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interactive web page | GroundForge is a toolbox to design bobbin lace grounds or braids. Generates thread diagrams out of color coded pair diagrams, supports any stitch. Various collections of predefined patterns or create your own patterns. |
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InkScape plugin | Ground From Template only pair diagrams. Regular or wrapped around a circle. Comes with a collection of predefined patterns. On tesselace an explanation to "Design Your Own Templates". |
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The old generators may still have a use case but they are no longer maintained. |
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interactive web page | Limited set of stitches. Fixed set of patterns. Thread diagrams only from a table of stitches. The dedicated InkScape plugin to change thread styles is not upgraded to Inkscape 1.0. |
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desktop application | Only about a dozen traditional grounds and braids. An export of stitch by stitch images can be imported by third party tools to create an animated image that show a working order. You can try to execute it with OpenJDK 8. |
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interactive web page | Flanders only. No Pair diagrams. Works even with old browsers. |
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Grids | Polar |
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Constant width of common graph paper: | ||
Constant shape for DiBL applications: | ||
interactive web page | More patterns than the plugin and it scales better. You can design your own patterns, though the definitions might be a bit cryptic. |
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InkScape plugin | Allows matching nested grids. Less patterns than the web-based version but you can add your own marks for one pie and have it automagically repeated to a complete circle. |
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Regular |
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InkScape plugin | The built-in grid feature of InkScape only provides snapping points. This plugin generates printable dots with configurable size, distance and angle. |