Schiffli
Describe a lace or an embroidered yardage, or bring your artwork. Schiffli fits the design to your frame’s rapport and needles and writes the stitch file, with every boring, cording and sequin, for your schiffli line.
What Schiffli can take on
Schiffli reads your design the way a schiffli puncher does. The design is fitted to your frame’s rapport, every shape gets its Blatt or Stepp, every hole its boring, every lace its connecting threads — so the whole frame sews the design you drew, repeat after repeat.
Classic broderie anglaise yardage: a white eyelet lattice on cotton, with a scalloped edge.
- Every eyelet bored, then sewn round in Blatt
- The lattice fitted to the rapport, so the repeat joins across the frame
- The scallop edge sewn ready to cut
Fitted to your frame
The design is laid out in your frame’s own rapport and needle spacing — the French inch your machine sews — so every repeat joins across the full width.
Every schiffli stitch
Blatt and Stepp, boring for eyelets, cording, plate and skip-needle work — each shape sewn the way a schiffli sews it.
Lace that holds
Chemical lace sewn on a ground that is dissolved away, every motif joined by connecting threads, and cutwork and sequins planned with the stitches.
Ready to import
Every order comes with a stitch file and its list of machine functions — needles in and out, tension, boring, cording and sequins — for your schiffli design software to import, and is read back first.
What’s in every schiffli file
Every schiffli file is one bundle: the stitches, every machine function, and everything the line needs to run the frame.
DSTStitch file
Every stitch of the design, repeated across your frame, ready for your schiffli design software to import.
Function list
Stitch 1needles in
Stitch 94tension, Blatt
Stitch 98tension, Stepp
Stitch 150needles out
…1,125 moves
Needle set1
Function list
Every machine function at its stitch — needles in and out, Blatt and Stepp tension, boring, cording and sequins.
PNGStitch preview
The design drawn stitch by stitch from the file itself, so you see the embroidery before the frame runs.
Production sheet
Machineschiffli, 4/4 rapport
Needle spacing27.07 mm
Clothcotton voile, 80 gsm
Stitches57,999
Size726 × 140 mm
Needle moves1,125
Production sheet
Machine, frame, rapport, needles, cloth and ground, stitch count and the order of colours by needle — for the line.
Runs on your schiffli
Choose your machine when you start. The design is fitted to that machine — its frame height, its needles, its needle spacing and its rapport.
Schiffli machines, frames 800 to 2,850 mm high
A stitch file and its function list, fitted to the frame, for your schiffli design software to import.
100 to 900 needles
The design repeated across every needle, in the rapport you run.
Boring, cording and sequin devices
Every boring, cord and sequin written into the function list at its stitch.
Chemical lace and cutwork
Lace on a dissolvable ground with connecting threads; cutwork with its cut lines.
Start where your design starts
From a prompt
Describe the lace or the embroidery in your own words — the motifs, the cloth, the ground and the repeat. It is drawn first, then fitted to your frame.
From your artwork
Upload a photo of a lace, a sketch or a stitch file you already have. It is redrawn clean and fitted to your rapport.
From a trend
Start from a rising trend. Its motifs carry into a lace or yardage made for your frame.
Running a schiffli unit?
Get started with Schiffli
Pro
For growing studios and independent brands. Per month, ₹2,500 to spend each month.
Max
For factories and high-volume teams. Per month, ₹11,000 to spend with a 10% volume bonus.
Prices in INR, excluding applicable tax; shown in your local currency at checkout. Prices and plans are subject to change at PatternAI’s discretion.
Frequently asked questions
What file does my schiffli get?
Will the repeat join across my frame?
Can it make chemical lace?
Can it make eyelets and broderie anglaise?
Does it handle cording and sequins?
Can I start from a file I already have?
How is a schiffli file priced?
What if my machine isn’t listed?
More on schiffli and its files
From a prompt to the stitch file your schiffli runs
Free to start. Pro and Max plans available.