Tatami embroidery fill patterns

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Machine embroidery
Module: Computerized embroidery
draft
2023/06/02
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Draft

Introduction

Tatami fill patterns are one major type of stitch types (the others are lines, satin stitches and programmed stitches).

Each software manufacturer its own way of defining these. Generally speaking, one can find a few dozen non-editable patterns in semi-professional software. Professional software has more and allows editing both existing a new patterns.

Typology of tatami fill patterns

(to do)

Pattern editing

DG 15

According to chapter 11 of the DG 15 User's guide, a user can modify or create patterns using the standard patterns dialog. Standard patterns are defined by lines that have the same distance between stitches but are offset.

The following can be defined

  • Length of stitches (points), i.e. total length of a repeatable pattern line, e.g. 40
  • Number of offsets (i.e. lines that will be stitched before the pattern repeats, typically 4 for simple design and over 10 for complex designs)
  • For each offset, a percentage between 0 and 100 that defines the offset can be defined. Alternatively the patterns are displayed with lines and beads representing stitches. The lines with beads then can be moved up and down.