Diagrams for Bobbin Lace

a suite of projects and applications

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

Grids

GroundForge generates thread diagrams from pair diagrams (and vise versa)

  • Mix up to 4 different snowflakes with your own choice of stitches for new grounds.
  • Play with stitches in simple nets, wobbling Rose ground units, Valenciennes/Paris or snow in Paris.
  • Browse galleries with predefined patterns (traditional and experimental) and play with your own choice of stitches:
    • Tesselace — Algorithmically designed lace tessellations linked to GroundForge diagrams.
    • Sampler by Gertrude Whithing — Demonstrates the power and limitations.
    • MAE Many Attractive Examples — Community contributions.
  • Design your own pattern from scratch
  • Symmetrical pattern variations from your own template.
  • Add components with customized forms to your own web pages.

Licenses vary per project. We usually have GPL, simplified BSD for code and CC-BY for documentation and examples.