This software provides tools for creating and sharing bobbin lace working diagrams. It offers customizable grid patterns, stitch icons, and thread colors, with options to export designs as PDF files. Users can also collaborate with others by sharing and editing diagrams online.
As a software review, the text discusses the limitations of general graphical tools when designing bobbin lace. The author notes that traditional graphical tools do not understand the relationship between the dots and lines, which can lead to an arduous and unintuitive design process. The article refers to these tools as having limited added value over pencil and paper.
To address this problem, the BobbinWork approach was created. It provides graphical tools that are adapted to lace makers, simplifying the creative phase of some of the tasks, and thus easing the work for designers. The software follows how a lace maker learns and applies the stitches in working order, which reduces the time required to create and maintain the cohesion of the design. In addition, the software allows for various presentations of a single design, and it is possible to access them all easily. These presentations include written instructions describing the stitches, thread diagrams, pair diagrams, and prickings with conventions that can vary per lace style.
However, the prototype has some limitations. The current version focuses on design grounds and exploring their variations. The polar grid generator, which facilitates the design of stitches that have a constant shape and are not high inside and wide outside, is not yet integrated. Overall, BobbinWork is a great solution to an age-old problem, and it stands to make designing bobbin lace more intuitive and enjoyable.
To address this problem, the BobbinWork approach was created. It provides graphical tools that are adapted to lace makers, simplifying the creative phase of some of the tasks, and thus easing the work for designers. The software follows how a lace maker learns and applies the stitches in working order, which reduces the time required to create and maintain the cohesion of the design. In addition, the software allows for various presentations of a single design, and it is possible to access them all easily. These presentations include written instructions describing the stitches, thread diagrams, pair diagrams, and prickings with conventions that can vary per lace style.
However, the prototype has some limitations. The current version focuses on design grounds and exploring their variations. The polar grid generator, which facilitates the design of stitches that have a constant shape and are not high inside and wide outside, is not yet integrated. Overall, BobbinWork is a great solution to an age-old problem, and it stands to make designing bobbin lace more intuitive and enjoyable.
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