Perlino: Bead patterns
Bead patterns, row by row.
A pattern is created from an image or drawn from scratch; beads are shown in their real proportions. A word chart is prepared for every row, and the current row is followed while beading.
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Key features
- Stitch types
- Loom / square stitch, peyote (even or odd count) and brick stitch; beads in their real proportions, cylinder 11/0 and 10/0, seed beads 15/0, 11/0, 8/0, 6/0.
- Patterns from images
- An image is opened from a file, the clipboard, by drag and drop or with the camera on phones; colours are matched to the Perlino palette with CIELAB / CIEDE2000; colour limit, dithering, leaving the background empty.
- Drawing from scratch
- Pencil, eraser, fill, line, replace colour, selection and flipping; left-right and top-bottom symmetric drawing, repeating a selection, shifting rows and columns.
- Word chart
- The beads to string in each row, in order ("3 × Colour 042, 1 × Colour 001"), following the direction of peyote and brick stitch. Saved and shared as text.
- Beading mode
- The current row is framed on the grid; "Row done" moves to the next one, and the progress percentage is shown.
- Colours and quantities
- Bead count and a gram estimate with waste allowance for each colour, symbol key; your own bead number can be entered for each colour.
Data processing and privacy
Perlino turns images into patterns on this device; patterns, source images and beading progress are stored on this device (in the browser's IndexedDB storage) and are not sent to any server.
Get Perlino
Try it in the browser without installation; for continued use, purchase the version for macOS, Windows or Linux.