Talk:Machine embroidery

message: The article has no references, please see what is a good article before renominating.-Yamanbaiia 06:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA quickfail

message: This program is proprietary but free as in beer and will convert between most major embroidery design file formats. It is the only "free" publicly-available Windows program of it's kind with a GUI in the world that I am aware of at this time.
As far as I know, there is no open file format standard for embroidery, nor are there any free software drivers for any embroidery machines that I am aware of. If anyone knows of some please post.
Also of note is http://www.free-penguin.org/ which has Linux penguin embroidery files. --BenMcLean (talk) 16:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tajima Ambassador software worthy of mention 

message: Various explicit or implicit value judgments being asserted; for example, "Tajima is one of the best embroidery machine from Japan." Undue weight is given to the Brother SE 270D; while the statement may be factually correct there is no reason to call out that particular model. Also, none of these fact assertions are referenced, and thus need citation. --EgoWumpus (talk) 12:46, 24 February 2009 (Eastern)
:Good call.  A lot of this article appeared to have been written by someone who knew the industry quite well, but was less familiar with encyclopedic standards.  I've moved the unreferenced tag to the top of the article and excised the more commercial/how-to sections of prose.  Left the remainder that appears plausible and probably verifiable. DurovaCharge! 18:29, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Embroidery Machines Section

message: Please note that while I have attempted to clean up the syntax and fix the tone to be more encyclopedic, there are still many issues with this page, including a lack of citations and references. Yourstruly42 (talk) 01:05, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy-editing

message: The lovely photo of chain link/chain stitch/lock stitch/ embroidery is not discussed in the article at all.  
This work was likely made by a comercial machine with a small crank handle under the table that would control the direction that the 'dogs' would move the material.  Controlling the machines took a lot of practice and may be a dying art.  Being a chain link it had a single thread.
I found the following links with a quick search that describe the machines.
Some good computer embroidery information from University of Geneva, not sure if it is linked on this page yet
Idyllic press (talk) 22:07, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types of machine embroidery 

message: Substituted at 22:45, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: I cannot agree that creating simple designs take hours and that learning machine embroidery is very difficult. It does take time, but no more than learning how to to create 2D designs for laser cutting or 3D models for 3D printing. Become an expert does take time in any domain (about 10,000 hours according to K. Anders Ericsson, i.e. 5 to 10 years). My students learn the basics in a few days and can do more complex things within a few weeks (part time).
I learned basic embroidery in about two weeks and I now can create an embroidery design from a simple hand drawing (taking a picture with my cell phone, image manipulation, vectorizing and digitizing) in about 15 minutes. The result is not professional but OK. Doing a "clean" embroidery takes some more time, but using resources from the noun project and or openclipart.org makes this fairly easy. The bottlenecks are just (1) understanding that embroidery is not wysiwyg (so make stuff overlap), (2) selecting good assets to start from (simple hand drawings or simple and clean SVG) and (3) being able to do some vector manipulations.
It is true that software is expensive, but not that expensive. E.g. there is good rentalware that for 100$/year. If you can bear working on a cellphone, there is a cheap app. Some open source software exists, but has limited functionality, e.g. this on source on github.
If I have time I will try to revise the article a bit to demystify digital embroidery. Since I need some other evidence than my own experience I just posted this comment here. I don't know if this or this (student work described in a private french wiki) would count as evidence  ...  Daniel K. Schneider 18:34, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Learning and doing machine embroidery 

message: Good news for open source. IMHO Ink/Stitch, an Inkscape extension, is perfectly usable for a number of use cases, e.g. education and is under active development: For the moment it can do configurable lines, fills (one type of pattern), simple zigzag, satin stitches, underlays for all of these and manual stitches. Below an example made by a amateur.
	
	
- Daniel K. Schneider 21:44, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update June 2018 - Ink/Stitch