Color coded pair diagrams contain all information required to reproduce a piece of lace. But only thread diagrams or the real lace reveal how individual threads run through a section. Subtle changes in stitches may have a minor impact on the texture when working with a single type of thread, but may have a mayor impact when working with color or variable thread sizes. To facilitate the study of those effects, dibl-tiles can replace stitches in diagrams or templates that apply certain conventions and annotations.

dibl-tiles can also turn text versions of pair traversal patterns into diagrams with stitches of your choice. The concept of pair traversal patterns is introduced by Veronika Irvine. Broadening the Palette for Bobbin Lace: A Combinatorial Approach. Bridges 2012: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture, pages 191-198. Tessellations Publishing, 2012.

The pages in the delivered web folder demonstrate the possibilities of the currently implemented templates: diagonal / interleaved traversal patterns and Flanders grounds. Your fantasy is the limit of possible templates.

Each template requires a set of tiles with all subtle variations of stitches. Only a limited set is available yet. For Flanders grounds only the three traditional stitches for thread diagrams are available, for diagonal traversal patterns six color coded stitches and two thread stitches are available and for interleaved patterns only color coded stitches are available.

More stitches would allow more variations of paths for individual threads through a ground. Extending the palete of stitches by hand is quite error prone. Implementation of automatically [DrawStitches] might help to complete the palette of stitches to choose from. In theory this code needs to run just once. Therefore a perfect algorithm is not required, once the bulk of the error prone work is done, manual adjustment can improve the aesthetic aspects and correct a few exceptions to the rules.