D-BL offers a roof to a suite of projects and applications related to bobbin lace.

Grids

• Printable grids with Inkscape plugins.
• Online polar grid generator.
• Links in the Tesselace gallery for downloads in a widely supported scalable SVG format.

GroundForge

GroundForge generates thread diagrams from pair diagrams and can use the pair diagrams as thread diagrams.

• Galleries (traditional and experimental patterns)
  • MAE Many Attractive Examples — Community contributions.
  • Tesselace — Algorithmically designed lace tessellations linked to GroundForge diagrams.
  • Sampler by Gertrude Whithing — Explores what is (im)possible beyond the Tesselace patterns.
• Specials
  • Nets (diamond/square) — One stitch, dozens of diagrams.
  • Snow in Paris — A demo with a Binche ground.
  • Mix snowflakes — Connected in a plain way.
  • Rose ground units — Connected in a wobbling way.
  • Valenciennes/Paris
• Advanced
  • Design your own pattern from scratch
  • Symmetrical patterns from your own pattern snippet.
  • Customized forms for your own web pages.

Licenses

Licenses vary per project.
You have the rights to copy, modify and republish, with some restrictions.
So far we have cc-by v4 for the documentation and either GPL v3 or Simplified BSD for the code.