Price: Free
Software description:Bead Pattern Maker is a free beading tool used to create bead patterns easily and intuitively. It’s a simple and powerful web tool to bring your imagination into life.
Youtube instructions on how to use aplication: youtube
Price: Free
Software description:“Home of the best little free bead program for patterns on the net!”
Click for video here on “How to use easybead for designing Mochila patterns”
Graph Paper Generator based on your Pattern Gauge
Price: Free
Software description:The graph paper is provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format file. And it requires download the Acrobat Reader.
Download Acrobat Reader here
JBead - bead rope crochet design tool
Price: Free
Software description:The JBead software is a bead rope crochet design tool. It can be freely downloaded and used. It is open source sofware, licensed under the GPLv3 license.
Price: Free
Software description:Online bead pattern maker! Create multi-stitch kandi patterns (aka peyote stitch patterns) online and number them with one click!
Knotter Celtic design software
Price: Free
Software description:Price: Free
Software description:knitPro is a free web application that translates digital images into knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch patterns. Simply upload jpeg, gif or png images and knitPro will generate a graph sizable for any fiber project. knitPro digitally mimics the tradition of pre-industrial craft circles who freely shared patterns and passed them down from generation to generation.
Pixel Stitch - Convert photos into cross stitch patterns for free
Price: Free
Software description:
Price: Free
Software description:Create unlimited seamless patterns for free
Price: Free
Software description:Spiralize your photos: edit placement, color, rings, and image download.
Price: Free
Software description:Stitch Fiddle is an online knitting, cross stitch and crochet pattern design community.
Price: Free
Software description:Free Online Pattern Wizard For Beading, Crochet, Cross Stitch, Knitting.
Price: Free
Software description:CrochetCharts 1.2 is free software helping you to create crochet charts of different difficulty. It is a new version of application originally developed by Brian Milco. On the request of the University of Hasselt he agreed to open-sourcing his application. With the support of Prof. Wim Lamotte and the feedback of Annelies and Arno Baes, Olivier de Schaetzen worked on it for a month in order to release a first major update of the software. CrochetCharts is completely free and can be downloaded and used by everyone forever. And its code is now publicly available, so everyone (who is familiar with programming) can improve it, make changes and add new features.
Here is video tutorial link:
Price: Free
Software description:Generates seamless tartan patterns!
Valentina - open source pattern drafting software
Price: Open Source
Software description:Valentina is an open source pattern drafting software tool, designed to be the foundation of a new stack of open source tools to remake the garment industry.
Small-batch and custom-sized clothing manufacturing is essential to create a sustainable future, preserve small- to medium-sized textile spinning and weaving manufacturers, enable independent and small designers and manufacturers to scale up to make a decent living, rebuild local garment districts, and reduce or eliminate slave labor.