The page is a counted-stitch chart.
Nothing floats. Every block lands on the same pierce-grid the cloth is dyed on, so a planner spread reads as a chart you could actually sew.
Snap to the pierce-grid
Modules align to a 26px counted cell. Alignment is not a guideline here — it is the loom.
Running-stitch dividers
Rows and frames part on dashed running stitches in ecru thread — never a hard rule, never a grey border.
One madder thread, live
A single floss marks the element you can act on. The rest of the chart stays ecru on indigo, calm.
Pictures live inside the hoop.
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Bounded, never bleeding
Illustration is worked inside a hoop or a 16:10 framed window and stops at the rim — it never runs across the controls that drive the studio.
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Real thread, every form
Satin and long-and-short stitch fills, couched outlines, french knots — the embroidery technique dresses any subject, from a carp to an order ledger.
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Swappable by token
The hero reads from
--hero-image, so the studio swaps the cloth without touching the layout.
How a chart gets stitched.
Count the cells
Lay the pierce-grid. The cell count is the contract every later stitch obeys.
Plot the rows
Charted blocks drop onto the grid, each labelled with its row and column coordinate.
Run the stitch
Dividers and the headline mark draw in as running stitches, dash by dash.
Tie the knot
One madder floss lands on the live element; gold knots flag what to read next.
Open a charted studio.
Bring up an indigo workspace where every region is counted, labelled, and quietly stitched — and the live thread always tells you where to look.
Open the chart