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. It complements existing lace ground catalogues, helping to reduce the number of hand made samples for more variations.

• 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.