The first design tool with real needlepoint thread libraries. Pick Pepper Pot Silk colors from your screen the way you pick them from a color card.
Existing apps use DMC thread libraries. Needlepoint designers work with Pepper Pot Silk, Silk & Ivory, Planet Earth, and Vineyard — none of which exist in cross-stitch software.
Without a real tool, professional canvas designers chart by hand or hack spreadsheets into grids. It's slow, hard to revise, and impossible to share a clean thread list with a client.
A tent stitch is a diagonal stroke across the mesh, not a filled pixel. Clotho understands stitch direction and thread identity — so your chart looks like your canvas, not a spreadsheet.
Pepper Pot Silk with all 200 colors sampled from physical skeins. More libraries in development.
Every grid cell knows its stitch direction and which thread it uses — just like your canvas.
Set your canvas to 18-mesh and see real-world dimensions. Design at the scale you'll stitch.
Pencil, fill, eraser, eyedropper, line, and rectangle. Undo/redo. Zoom and pan. The basics, done right.
See every thread in your design with stitch counts. Hand it to a client or take it to the shop.
Download as PNG, print a chart PDF, or export a thread shopping list with brand and color numbers.
We photograph and color-match every thread by hand from physical color cards. No guessing from manufacturer websites.
We're building Clotho Studio for professional needlepoint designers. Join the waitlist for early access.