Background

Everything started with a template for Flanders meshes published in the Kantbrief of 2004-1. It appeared possible to cut rectangular tiles from the irregular shapes containing the stitches. Combining these tiles with a JavaScript lead to an online generator. For hands-on training on OO development in theory and Java in practice, lace diagrams served as a use case. This ran a bit out of hand with the BobbinWork project. Being limited to core java and a custom XML for various reasons, the project finally ran into dead ends.

A fresh start should use existing technologies. Exploring whether and how InkScape and SVG could be and probably was used for bobbin lace revealed research by Veronika Irvine. Both using and dropping some principles of the old project applied to the graphs generated by Veronika lead to a new ground generator. The polar grid generator served several times as a "hello world" use case to master new techniques and get something practical out of the exercise.