Lace Paper Doilies Generator

What this makes

A paper doily you print and then cut on your machine. The tool gives you two files that already fit each other: a 300 dpi print PNG and a cut SVG in real millimetres, sharing one origin and one bleed. Print the sheet, load it, cut the outline — no tracing, no offsetting, no guessing at scale.

Twelve lace designs, six silhouettes

Every design is drawn as real European needle lace — a raised cordonnet outlining each motif, connecting bars across the open ground, and fine filling inside the flowers — rather than a pattern tiled from one repeating unit.

The outline and the openwork are one design, not two independent choices — which is how real lace is made.

Color

Ten colours plus white, and a custom picker. The lace and the openings are chosen separately, so you can print pink lace on white, white lace on navy, or any pair you like.

Every colour is tuned to stay legible as fine linework on paper — measured, not eyeballed: each sits at or above 1.5:1 against the paper. Pick two colours too close to tell apart and the tool says so, rather than letting you print a blank sheet.

Add a name

Five calligraphic scripts — Pinyon Script, Mrs Saint Delafield, Ephesis, Italianno, Great Vibes — plus two fine serifs. A name sits in the middle, with an oval frame or without.

Lettering is printed, never cut, which is what makes the fine scripts usable: a copperplate hairline is about 0.2 mm — it would shred under a blade, but prints as a clean two-and-a-bit pixels at 300 dpi.

Two ways to cut

• Outline only — the default. The blade follows the outer scalloped edge; everything inside is printed detail. Works for every design at every size.
• Cut the lace too — the blade also cuts the large openings. Offered per design from a measured minimum size (18–33 mm depending on the design), because below that the webs drop under 1 mm and the piece falls apart on the mat.

如何运作

1. Pick a design from the thumbnails on the left.
2. Set the width in millimeters — 40 to 300.
3. Choose the colors, for the lace and for the openings.
4. Add a name if you want one, and pick a script.
5. Export.You get the print PNG and the cut SVG together.

Materials

Ordinary white printer paper works, and so does cardstock up to about 200 gsm. Any inkjet or laser printer — nothing here needs special media.

What is in the export

The print is deliberately larger than the cut by that 1 mm, so a small registration error still cuts through printed area instead of leaving a white rim. Both filenames carry the design name and the size.

The interface is available in 17 languages.