Turn letters and images into lace.
Lace It is an experimental generative art tool that renders text and photos as intricate lace patterns — thread paths traced along contours, woven into meshes, animated in real time. Export as PNG or SVG.
Type a word (up to 4 letters) and watch each character bloom into a lace embroidery. Or upload a photo and let Lace It trace its edges into thread. Every parameter — density, stitch type, thread weight, color — is live-editable.
- Up to 4 uppercase letters rendered as lace
- Thread follows the contour of each letterform
- Running thread connects letters like loose embroidery
- Upload any photo — contours are extracted automatically
- Each edge layer becomes a thread path
- Brush render: lace traces image outlines in real time
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Mesh | Thread density — more mesh, more detail |
| Stitch | Pattern type: lace / hex / diamond |
| Straight | Toggle curved vs. straight thread segments |
| Thread weight | Line thickness |
| C1 / C2 / C3 | Three thread colors |
| Background | Canvas background color |
| Color presets | Quick palette swatches |
Hit Regenerate to reseed with a new random layout.
- PNG — High-res flat render
- SVG — Vector export, scalable to any size, ready for plotters or print
- Canvas 2D API — thread rendering, animation loop
- WebGL — brush/image lace render pass
- Moore neighborhood contour tracing — edge extraction from images
- Douglas-Peucker simplification — contour smoothing
- No framework. No build step. One HTML file.
→ laceitapp.com (coming soon)
Or clone and open index.html in a browser.
Design by Mog
Part of the *It series of single-purpose creative tools.