Software For String Users

Bead Creator
Convert ANY image into an easy to recreate "beading-by-number" design pattern with our BeadCreator software. This program allows you to create an image and have it translated into a "bead map" and shopping list for your project.

Bead Pattern Designer
The Bead Pattern Design Program (BPDP) is a rich set of software tools developed especially for anyone who enjoys the art of Beadworking.

BeadTool Beading SoftwareThis beading program takes a completely different approach to creating bead patterns. Instead of "Converting" your photograph, it takes a top down natural aproach that you will find very easy to work with. Just drag your pattern anywhere over the picture and with the click of a button you have a fantastic pattern..

Cochenille's Stitch Painter
Stitch Painter is a design tool is specifically geared to the needs of textile and craft designers of all sorts and we made it so user-friendly, you scarcely need a manual. Stitch Painter will open endless doors to your creativity, tailoring itself to any design goal that uses a grid, from beads or weaving to needlepoint and cross-stitch to knits.

DB Bead
DB-BEAD is a software to help you design crocheted bead necklaces. This technique is described in the book 'Geh„kelte Glasperlenketten' written by Lotti Gygax. As of yet, the program is available for free but only in german.

Beadscape
BEADSCAPE is a Macintosh platform software program developed by beaders, it allows you to easily chart custom beadwork patterns in a variety of weaves.

Braid Runner
Orion Plumage invites you to explore the infinite design possibilities of fourteen different 8 element Kumihimo braids.

Coats Crochet Made Easy
Coats interactive CD-ROMs feature a self-paced learning format to ensure success from the start, using illustrations, text and voice-over video to make every technique crystal clear. And unlike regular video, you can replay topics with the click of a mouse. Each CD-ROM includes 20 patterns, ranging from beginner to intermediate

Filet Crochet Designs
By Sand Castle Designs make is possible for you to create your own patterns! Filet Crochet Software creates a grid on the screen for you. Use the mouse to fill the squares of the grid to create your pattern, then print the pattern along with the generated crochet instructions. You can also import ClipArt and other images and use them in your pattern! Save your pattern so you can later view it, print it, edit it,

Knitware Design
Knitware software enables hand knitters, machine knitters and CROCHETERS to easily and quickly create their own knitting and crochet patterns for babies, children, adults, toys, and pets!

Bargello Designer
Now you can use your computer to quickly and easily create beautiful Bargello quilt and needlepoint patterns

Cochenille's Stitch Painter
Stitch Painter is a design tool is specifically geared to the needs of textile and craft designers of all sorts and we made it so user-friendly, you scarcely need a manual. Stitch Painter will open endless doors to your creativity, tailoring itself to any design goal that uses a grid, from beads or weaving to needlepoint and cross-stitch to knits.

Cross Magic
CrossMagic is a database program for cross-stitch enthusiasts. It allows you to enter and maintain details on all your threads, charts and projects. It will print reports on what threads you've run out of and need to buy again, which charts you can make with your existing stock of floss, what floss you need to buy to make a particular chart, inventory lists, which projects you've completed and which are still under construction, it will even let you enter a search text and will list all the charts you own that pertain to that subject.

Cross Stitch Professional 2003
Cross Stitch Professional for Windows can be used for converting photographs and clipart into cross stitch charts. It can also be used to design charts starting with a blank sheet. Charts can be produced complete with colour key, simulation of stitched result and thread organiser cards.

DigiStitch
Developed by Creative Craftware, DigiStitch is a state-of-the-art cross stitch software product with many creative innovations. At first glance you can tell that DigiStitch is very different from other software. Take a closer look and see why we are highly regarded as an innovative leader in software used to create designs and patterns!

Easy Cross
Fulford Software Solutions are Producers of Cross Stitch and Needlecraft Computer Design Software. Easy Cross is a comprehensive cross stitch design range with more features for your money, which is expandable to allow for other crafts.

Easy Grapher
EasyGrapher needlework design computer programs let hobbyist and professional designers create beautiful charts for cross stitch, needlepoint, Hardanger, Bargello, plastic canvas, blackwork rug hooking, and other needlework.

Pattern Maker for CCS
HobbyWare's Pattern Maker for Cross-Stitch software product is a design tool for creating counted cross-stitch patterns. Whether you are wanting to create a cross-stitch design from a photograph or create a design for publication, Pattern Maker provides the features you need.

Pattern Tracker
PatternTracker, from StillWater Designs in the UK, has been created to enable stitchers everywhere to catalogue the patterns they wish to stitch from all the cross stitch magazines. If you have a pile of magazines tucked away somwhere because you know that there is something in them you want to stitch, and you'll also have no idea which patterns are in which magazines. This is what makes PatternTrackersuch and invaluable tool.

PC Stitch
Our cross-stitch design software allows you to create your own patterns. Create projects from scratch, or automatically convert photographs and other images.

PM Stitch Creator
PM Stitch Creator is the software that allows you to prepare your own counted cross-stitch patterns. Program automatically converts your digital pictures into stitch patterns optimized for specified floss palette, or you can create patterns from scratch with virtual needles and other tools like color fill, eraser, or text. Stitch patterns can be viewed on screen and printed as stitch work or chart, together with color key and material list.

Photo-X Pro
Photo-X pro is developed by computer scientists and mathematicians for the complicated process of creating a CCS chart from a scanned photograph.

Premium Plus 2000
Premium-Plus 2000 is IúLúSOFT's most powerful and versatile computer stitch design package. Recently improved and updated it includes everything that is need to produce charts to the highest professional standards and is ideal for use by professional designers, kit manufacturing companies, authors and advanced home stitchers

Pro-Stitch
If you've ever wanted to design your own charts, import photos of your kids, pets or home, now is a good time to pick up this awesome design tool at a great price.

ProStitch NP Needlepoint Designer
Pro-Stitch is a real needlepoint program which contains features requested by stitchers and designers. Some of the unique features allow you to create stencils, Hardanger stitches and specialty stitches such as Smyrna cross, Queen, Rice, Eyelets etc.

Stitch 2000
Stitch 2000 enables anybody to create professional looking stitch charts using their home PC. Stitch 2000 makes it easy to create designs for cross-stitch, tapestry, hardanger, blackwork and most other stitching styles

StitchCraft
StitchCraft is for designing Cross Stitch, Tapestry, Rug Hooking and any other grid-based needlework including photo conversion.

Stitch Crafts
Compucrafts introduced Stitch Crafts in October of 1995, Stitch Crafts Gold represents a new generation of stitch graphing software which combines ease of use for the novice with the power features required by the professional designer. Version 5.2 1was released in October 2002.

X-Stitch
X-Stitch for Windows is a full-featured cross-stitch pattern design program.

SW-Pro for Sweadish Weave Design
Totaly new software,with incredible flexibility in stitching. Includes: Mutilple stitching directions and floats Beads and Loop Stitches.

URSA X-Stitch

Graph Paper Printer
Graph Paper Printer is a software application designed to print numerous kinds of graph papers, music manuscripts and pattern papers, with user-defined sizes and colors

Aran Paint
With AranPaint you can design textured stitch patterns almost instantly by just pointing and clicking. It's a lot like adding pieces to a jigsaw puzzle, except you decide what piece (stitch) will go where.

Coats Knitting Made Easy
Coats interactive CD-ROMs feature a self-paced learning format to ensure success from the start, using illustrations, text and voice-over video to make every technique crystal clear. And unlike regular video, you can replay topics with the click of a mouse. Each CD-ROM includes 20 patterns, ranging from beginner to intermediate

Cochenille Design Studio

• Stitch Painter
  Stitch Painter is a design tool is specifically geared to the needs of textile and craft designers of all sorts and we made it so user-friendly, you scarcely need a manual. Stitch Painter will open endless doors to your creativity, tailoring itself to any design goal that uses a grid, from beads or weaving to needlepoint and cross-stitch to knits.
• Garment Designer/Styler
  Garment Styler for Windows or Macintosh is a garment design program that has been on the market of the past few years. It allows sewers to print a pattern, in tiled pages from a standard printer, to tape together. It also allows knitters to build and chart a garment. Knitters quickly found that the paper pattern was an excellent tool to use for blocking knits into perfect shape.

Design A Knit (DAK)
DesignaKnit 7 for Windows is a powerful, affordable CAD/CAM program for designing knitwear available in Standard and Professional versions. The Professional version is the full-featured program, allowing a greater freedom of creativity and a greater degree of control over the design process

Knitware Design
Knitware software enables hand knitters, machine knitters and CROCHETERS to easily and quickly create their own knitting and crochet patterns for babies, children, adults, toys, and pets!

Knitting Software aka "software4knitting.com"

• Swearter Wizard
  Sweater Wizard generates schematics and text directions for sweaters customized to the knitters specifications. Sweaters may be charted for flat or round knitting, using any gauge. The knitter can generate schematics for several sweaters in the same session and is only limited by the amount of RAM in the PC.
• Stitch & Motif Maker
  A program to design or paint stitch and color patterns. Whether you want to design your own motif or use an existing textured stitch, Stitch and Motif Maker allows you to draw in color or common knitter's symbols. be sure to download the demo and try your hand at painting a stitch or motif with color or symbols.
• Sock Wizard
  Sock Wizard is based on the same easy to use interface as Sweater Wizard. Choose a shoe size, enter gauge and in minutes you are ready to start knitting. Knit from cuff to toe, or toe to cuff on the needles of your choice.
• Knitting Math Wizard
  Knitting Calculation Without Trepidation! Expressly designed to eliminate pattern reading stress, the Knitting Math Wizard eases the phobias of the "mathematically challenged" or relieves time consuming preparation. Never be stymied by the lines "place buttonholes evenly" or "increase evenly across the row".
• Print-A-Grid
  Print-A-Grid was written with all crafters in mind and for anyone who just needs to print graph paper to custom specifications. Imagine graph paper at your finger tips anytime you need it. The price of the software is less than a full pad at the art store.

Moran Software
Needletrax Titles include: Socks 2 by 2 - Knitter's Desktop Companion A Circular stitch dictionary - The Sole Solution - and NeedleTrax Software for Knitters, Spinners and Weavers - Helps you manage your inventory of yarn, needles, books, fibers and projects

Organized Expressions
A Notebook and Diary to catalog, and inventory all your information! Needleworking . Knitting & Crocheting . All Quilting . Sewing . Rubber Stamping

SweaterMaker
Seedling Software's SweaterMaker offers machine knitters with easy-to-use charting software. We help you move quickly and easily from the early design stage of a sweater (where all you have are measurements, a swatch, and a hazy idea of what you want) to the ready-to-knit step.

Babylock: Palette
Ultimate Creative Embroidery Software Create unique embroidery from your own artwork or customize an existing design. Advanced auto-digitizing, powerful stitch editing and full featured customizing are all available in Palette™ 5.0 creative embroidery software from Baby Lock. You will love the way Palette 5.0 transforms your unique ideas into timeless treasures over and over again.

Bernina: artista Embroidery Software
With artista's new Editor & Designer Software, you can edit, reshape and change existing designs, or create unique embroidery from your very own artwork. This Windows-based* program comes in four levels: Editor, Auto-Designer, Designer and Designer

Brother: PE Design
The Brother PE-Design combines visions and mediums, enabling you to take your favorite photos and stitches and turn them into customized patterns to use however you wish with your Brother Embroidery Machine

Buzz Tools
BuzzEdit allows you to easily edit and create stitch-based embroidery designs.

Elna: Xpressive
Elna Xpressive embroidery software features advanced cross-stitch and auto-digitizing capabilities. The artistic possiblities are truly endless

Design Authority
Converts computer-generated artwork, camera-ready files and clip art into home machine embroidery designs by digitizing all of the objects with a few steps.

Embird 2003
Embird allows you to read/write designs stored on floppy disks in various embroidery formats, format and duplicate floppy disks. Converts designs among different formats, view designs in 1:1 scale and create various types of documentation. Detail, simple or thumbnails documentation can be printed on printer or exported into .BMP or .JPG file. Photorealistic preview provides an ability to assign proper colors to needles and to check design without actual embroidering.

Embroidery Office Art containing applications related directly to the embroidery designs. It includes design formats conversi¢n, mass storage and designs organization, editing and advanced processing of existing designs, automatic lettering system using pre-digitized fonts as well as true type fonts and users custom fonts, artwork creation, manual digitizing, automatic and interactive digitizing, creation of new customized reusable components, embroidery simulation, printing, catalog builder, etc.

Great Notions:
Great Notions offers software for sizing, lettering, pattern fills, auto-digitizing and marketing.

Husqvarna/Viking: Professional Plus
Create, Customize, Digitize and Convert existing Designs for home and commercial embroidery systems. Includes: Customizing Plus, Digitizing Plus, Stitch Editor Plus, ReSize Plus, Color PictureStitch, Reader/Writer, d-Card Reader/Writer, 3D Organizier Plus and Diskmanager

Janome: Digitizer
Digitizer 10000 gives you the tools you need to create your own digitized embroidery designs with easy-to-use Janome technology. Designs can be saved or converted in most home embroidery formats. In addition to the new Stitches, Lettering and Embroidery Gallery, there is also Click-to-Design, Image Preparation and Outlined Image preparation.

Origins
Origins is the world's most advanced auto-digitizing software available for the home embroiderer. Origins gives you the freedom to create and stitch ANY design. Amazing speed to instantly digitize and visualize your design. :Easy-to-use, powerful editing tools to customize ready-to-stitch designs. You can easily add creative lettering and in minutes you're ready to stitch out your masterpiece, make a print or archive your design for future use.

Pattern Maker
Pattern Maker is a Windows® application for the design of counted cross-stitch patterns. PM also offers a Machine Embroidery add-on product that can be used to export a design from Pattern Maker into one of the common home machine embroidery formats. This add-on is available for both the Standard and Professional levels of the program

Pfaff Creative Suite
You are the designer:
Create your own embroidery motifs with the Pfaff creative Suite fantastic range of software! Make your own embroideries with creative Digitizing, turn photos into embroideries with creative PictureStitch and create beautiful cross stitch designs with creative Cross Stitcher.

Singer: Professional Sew Ware ™
Singer's embroidery software from SINGER is compatible with its QUANTUM® XL-5000 It works with your personal computer to expand the already outstanding capabilities of our QUANTUM® XL series of embroidery machines. Compatible with multiple design files and formats

Please see the Cross Stitch Listings

The Foot Rule
The Foot Rule for all sorts of strange and wonderful calculators but you have to poke around for the textile ones

Latch Hook Rug Ware
Create latch hook patterns on your PC

On-line Yarn Converter

Pro-Latch Rug Hook Designer
Pro-Latch allows you to design your own personal rugs or wall hangings on your computer!

Pro Rod-Weave
Rod-Weave is software for the Rod Crafting Industry that will allow you to create colorful woven patterns on the rod just above the reel seat from scanned images or designs.

Bargello Designer
Now you can use your computer to quickly and easily create beautiful Bargello quilt and needlepoint patterns

The Electric Quilt Company
EQ products are often considered "the standard" - you will have to decide, but there are certainly a wealth of quilting and sewing software and specialty items on this site.

PC Quilt
PCQuilt for Windows Version 2 for . Appliqu‚, Fabric Scanning, Foundation Piecing and more!! PCQuilt is the only Quilting Software written by a quiltmaker for quiltmakers.

Quilt-Pro
Quilt-Pro is the complete quilting design software package that helps you create your own quilts. Quilt-Pro does everything but sew your quilt! Another site with more than just one product - spend some time there.

Quiltsoft
QuiltSOFT is a software program which lets you design complete quilts on your personal computer. It will create your templates, custom blocks, color palettes and estimate yardage. The program comes with master libraries of quilts, blocks, and color palettes for you to use and to add to. QuiltSOFT is also wonderful for designing stained glass, rug hooking, ceramic tile floor design, and for woodworking.

VQuilt
VQuilt is a computer program that allows you to design quilt blocks and then place them into a quilt pattern so that you can see how colors and patterns evolve. It not only replaces graph paper and colored pencils, but it permits you to do manipulation that would normally be too tedious to perform.

Latch Hook Rug Ware
Create latch hook patterns on your PC

Pro-Latch Rug Hook Designer
Pro-Latch allows you to design your own personal rugs or wall hangings on your computer!

Swoosh Rug Design & Diamond Rag Rug Desig
The newest version of David Raups Shwoosh Rag Rug design program is now available for download. It is called Diamond. It is so much simpler to use than the previous version, however it is for PC users working in the Windows platform only. Check it out! Take a peek at Gallery. You will find a few examples of Tied Weaves, as well as Rugs and Transparencies. More to come soon.

Cochenille Design
Garment Styler & Garment Designer for Windows or Macintosh are garment design programs that have been on the market of the past few years. It allows sewers to print a pattern, in tiled pages from a standard printer, to tape together.

Fittingly Sew
Fittingly Sew 1.2 is a specialist program for designing and drafting sewing patterns to give a perfect fit. A wealth of features gives you the power of professional CAD at a fraction of the usual cost. The program is available for either Windows or Macintosh platforms. Fittingly Sew is very easy to learn, and offers the ability to make and store a library of slopers (body blocks) and use these as the basis of a range of of patterns for a variety of garments, or you can design your patterns from scratch, or base them on the garment templates provided. All these elements are fully customizable to give free rein to your creativity and expertise.

Dress Shop
Livingsoft's pattern drafting software, Dress Shop, represent some of the best pattern drafting technology in the world. They include patterns for clothing for men, women, children, dolls, hats and purses. The patterns can fit people who are easy to fit, or who are very hard to fit, including those who have sloped or square shoulders, small or large bust, protruding tummy or bottom, dowager's hump, and much more. Livingsoft patterns have been successfully used by tall people, dwarfs, large people, and petites. Dress Shop™ was built to be easy to use, even if you don't know much about computers or about pattern drafting. The mix and match design method enables you to combine dozens of design options for each pattern. Consequently, each pattern can be made up in hundreds of different ways. The creative control that Livingsoft offers is unsurpassed!

Wild Ginger Software
Wild Ginger has been creating software for the apparel and home sewing industries since 1995. We specialize in apparel pattern making software for the small to medium-sized apparel manufacturer, the professional pattern maker, the small to medium-sized custom clothing business, the theatrical costumer, and the home sewing enthusiast.

• Cameo
  Cameo 3™ is the most powerful apparel pattern development software for professional pattern makers. Cameo is pattern making software, written by pattern makers. This suite of apparel production modules work alone or combine to give you maximum pattern development flexibility for the minimum in cost and implementation time. Cameo's apparel production tools allow you to draft and edit patterns, custom size or grade patterns, lay markers, and create technical drawings and specifications.With Cameo 3, you can do anything from custom dress making and costuming to mass customization and standard sized apparel production.
• Pattern Master
  Wild Ginger's Pattern Master is a line of software programs that automatically drafts custom sized sewing patterns for an entire wardrobe to your measurements.
• Pattern Master Curves
  PatternMaster Curves, the PatternMaster product for women who demand excellent custom fit in their activewear, bodywear, foundation garments (even bras!), lingerie, swimwear, resort and lounge wear.

Smock Soft
SmockSoft is the Original and Only Software on the market for Designing Picture and Geometric Smocking Plates !

First Stitch
SmockSoft - Create Beautiful Picture and Geometric Smocking Plates on Your Windows PC Beautiful Things are Created Once You Take Your First Stitch with the Software for Heirloom, Smocking and Historical Sewing

Perpetual Paper for Smocking
Perpetual Paper for Smocking is your Endless Supply of Smocking Graph Paper!

Smock Soft
SmockSoftis the Original and Only Software on the market for Designing Picture and Geometric Smocking Plates !

Cochenille's Stitch Painter
Stitch Painter is a design tool is specifically geared to the needs of textile and craft designers of all sorts and we made it so user-friendly, you scarcely need a manual. Stitch Painter will open endless doors to your creativity, tailoring itself to any design goal that uses a grid, from beads or weaving to needlepoint and cross-stitch to knits.

Arahne
Arahne is a software company, specialized in developing CAD/CAM systems for weaving. It was established in 1993 and its products are result of tight cooperation with local textile industry and universities. Arahne has installations in most European countries, Americas, Middle East and Africa

EAT DesignScope

Fiberworks PCW
Fiberworks PCW4 is an easy to use, intuitive weaving program. It allows you to check the appearance of the design, the structure of the weave, and the harmony of your color scheme. It will make many of your design tasks much easier, faster and most importantly, more fun. You will be weaving, virtually, in just a few minutes.

Jane Eisenstein's Weaving Freeware
Jane is a sofware developer and weaver. she shares several very useful small prgrams. WIF is a text format enabling draft sharing between weaving programs. Using WIF as an intermediary format, QD WIF helps you to move drafts among the above weaving programs and programs supporting WIF. The weaving ezine WeaveScene.com has an article by Eleanor Best on Working with WIFs in its June 2000 issue.

• .QD WIF a Macintosh program that translates between WIF (Weaving Information File) format andWeaveMaker One, Macintosh ProWeave 3.0 and WeavePoint version 4 drafts.
• Wif2Tiff Reads WIF (Weaving Information File) format drafts with any number of shafts and translates them into drawdown images that it can save as TIFF graphics files. In structure drawdown images, black pixels indicate raised warp ends and white pixels indicate lowered warp ends. The drawdowns show the picks ordered from bottom to top as they would appear when woven.
• Multi-weft Double Weave Drafter is a web-based tool that generates WIF weave drafts for your double weave designs. This tool can help you draft tabby double weave that has one warp threaded on odd shafts and anther warp threaded on even shafts. In any section, you can choose to have the top layer woven with the warp on the odd shafts, the warp on the even shafts, or end and end mixing the two warps. In any section, you can also choose to have the top layer woven with a single weft or with two different wefts pick and pick.

JacqCAD MASTER
JacqCAD MASTERr is a computer program for creating textile designs on computers. It contains extensive features designed to assist in designing, editing, creating loom control files, and punching of textile designs.

Lace Weave
LaceWeave is a small, free utility program for visualizing lace and other weave structures with deflected threads, written by David M. Raup. LaceWeave interprets WeavePoint and WIF files that have been previously saved. LaceWeave then draws, to screen or printer, a simulation of the woven fabric.

NedGraphics

On Line Card Weaving Progran
The "On Line Card Weaver" is a design tool for card weaving. It enables you to design card weaving patterns and try them out without threading a single card.

Patternland
Maple Hill Software released Patternland Weave Simulator in, 1996. Their program combines the graphical user interface of Microsoft Windows with the best of all our DOS programs' features, including those from Weave Publisher and Pattern Grapher.

Pointcarre
Textile software for design, dobby weave, Jacquard, knit and print industry

ProWeave
ProWeave is design software for Textile designers and handloom weavers PC or Macintosh computers

SwiftWeave
SwiftWeave is a fabric design and analyis program for use on Macintosh computers which simulates a loom so that weavers can quickly and easily design fabrics.

Swoosh Rug Design & Diamond Rag Rug Desig
The newest version of David Raups Shwoosh Rag Rug design program is now available for download. It is called Diamond. It is so much simpler to use than the previous version, however it is for PC users working in the Windows platform only. Check it out! Take a peek at Gallery. You will find a few examples of Tied Weaves, as well as Rugs and Transparencies. More to come soon.

Tartan Generator
Dynamically generates almost 2600 registered tartans - Tartans can be viewed on-screen and printed out - Comprehensive Tartan Design Module - design and save your own tartans - 3D rendition of tartan cloth
          This site also offers a demo program called Tartan Saver (look in your left side column for the download link)

Tim's Rudimentary Treadle Reducer
This site is a web front-end to a program for taking a weaver's tie-up draft and attempting to find a tie-up for producing the same pattern using a loom with fewer treadles (a skeleton tie-up). The original tie-up is assumed to require only one treadle to be depressed at a time; the reduced tie-up may require 2 treadles to be pressed at once.

Weave For Windows
WEAVE for Windows is a affordable weavers drawdown program for Microsoft Windows (ME, 98, 95, or 3.1) operating systems. It operates with a mouse and /or keyboard, and allows the user to design drafts and quickly see the results of threading, treadling, tieup, and color changes.

WeaveIt
WeaveIt is a software program for creating and displaying Weaving patterns. Users create the threading, treadling and tie-up and WeaveIt will display the drawdown. Users can manage all the aspects their weaving projects with WeaveIt.

WeaveMaker
Every feature you could ask for in dobby design software. Realistic fabric rendering, direct design creation (draw your design as you want it woven), and full-fabric float analysis and correction is super easy and fast.

WeavePoint
WeavePoint is software for advanced weaving design - an efficient tool for creating, editing and analyzing textile patterns and colorways and keeping a pattern archive.

WinWeave
WinWeave is written for IBM PC's and compatibles in Turbo C++ for Windows, and will provide a graphical display of a pattern after you provide the draft.