Barstitch Mandala embroidery font
A pre-digitized satin stitch alphabet — upper and lowercase, drawn at 90mm. Type your text and download a machine file, free.
About Barstitch Mandala
A large Mandala font. Redwork versions of the four mandalas used to design the font are stored in the $,<,>,^ glyphs
Barstitch Mandala ships as 159 pre-digitized glyphs. Each letter is a set of satin columns with its stitch direction, underlay and pull compensation already decided by the person who drew it — the same reason a real embroidery font beats converting a desktop typeface, where the outline is only a shape and something has to guess at the stitching.
What size to stitch it at
The font was digitized at 90mm cap height. Treat that as the size it looks best at, and scale within roughly half to double it without worrying. It is a large face, so it is happiest as a single word or a monogram rather than a line of small text; shrinking it far below its design size will pinch the narrow parts of each letter.
What it is good for
Barstitch Mandala is built for initials rather than sentences. Monogram faces put their detail into single letters, which is exactly wrong for a paragraph and exactly right on a towel, robe or bag.
Downloading Barstitch Mandala as a stitch file
There is nothing to install. Type your text in the text generator, set the height, arch the baseline if you want a curve, and export. The same design writes to PES (Brother, Baby Lock), DST (Tajima and most industrial machines), JEF and SEW (Janome, Elna), EXP (Melco, Bernina), VP3 (Husqvarna Viking, Pfaff) and XXX (Singer), so you can take the same lettering to whichever machine you are on. If you already have the file in the wrong format, the file converter will re-encode it.