Book
Punch: Digitizing for Embroidery Design
Bonnie Nielsen
Why we picked it
A digitizing book by a professional puncher with more than 25 years in the embroidery trade, written for people who create stitch files for industrial embroidery machines. It covers the design process from the basics to advanced creative techniques, with many step-by-step pictures that are not tied to any one digitizing program, so the methods carry across software. Written in English and published in Germany in 2010.
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