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Features

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.

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.
Size
Finished size in mm / cm / inches; the rows needed for a desired length (e.g. a wrist) are set with one tap.
PDF chart
A chart split across A4 pages: a preview on the cover, a page map, a colour key and word chart pages; printing and PNG.
Samples
A peyote zigzag bracelet, a floral loom bracelet, brick stitch earrings and a heart motif come with the first launch; they return with "Add samples again".

Devices and browsers

  • On phones beading mode shows the current row large; beads are marked with a finger.
  • On tablets you draw bead by bead with a pen; zoom with two fingers.
  • Saving a file in place is available in Chrome, Edge and Opera; in other browsers the saved file is downloaded.
Perlino screenshot: workspace with sample content
Desktop
Perlino screenshot: workspace with sample content
Tablet
Perlino screenshot: workspace with sample content
Phone

Keyboard shortcuts

⌘ and ⌥ are used on macOS; Ctrl and Alt on Windows and Linux.

ShortcutAction
P E G L R I SDrawing tools
X · YSymmetric drawing
[ ]Previous · next colour
MBeading mode
, .Previous · next row
Ctrl/⌘ PPDF chart

On touch screens the colour picker opens with a long press; beads are drawn and marked with a finger and zoomed with two fingers.

Get Perlino

Try it in the browser without installation; for continued use, purchase the version for macOS, Windows or Linux.