WILCOM EmbroideryStudio 2026 | Designing

EmbroideryStudio Designing 2026

The ultimate embroidery & multi-decoration software for professional digitizers, embroidery shops, industry trainers, educators, and apparel decorators.

Comes with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 2025, seamlessly integrated for a smooth workflow

Subscriber Exclusives

☑️ Enjoy automatic updates and new features as soon as they’re released

☑️ Access every available add-on Element, totalling 19 additional features

Subscriber Exclusives

☑️ Enjoy automatic updates and new features as soon as they’re released

☑️ Access every available add-on Element, totalling 19 additional features

EmbroideryStudio Designing at a Glance

16 Powerful Digitizing Tools

Shaping tools to weld, merge and flatten

Jagged Edge and Hand Stitch Effect

12 options add-on Elements

Library of over 240 Motifs

10 creative stitch types

Branching and automatic sequencing

228 Professionally digitized fonts

Name drop (Team Names)

Multi Blend

EmbroideryStudio Designing at a Glance

16 Powerful Digitizing Tools

Shaping tools to weld, merge and flatten

Jagged Edge and Hand Stitch Effect

12 options add-on Elements

Library of over 240 Motifs

10 creative stitch types

Branching and automatic sequencing

228 Professionally digitized fonts

Name drop (Team Names)

Multi Blend

What’s new in EmbroideryStudio 2026

Snap to Object

Enhance precision with improved snapping controls. Input points automatically snap to edges, nodes, and objects for cleaner outlines and faster digitizing.

Multi Blend

Add depth, shading, and smooth gradients with layered stitch blends. Adjust colours and preview instantly. Choose from presets or build your own custom blends.

Continue Digitizing

Keep digitizing a closed object without restarting. Avoid overlaps, reduce cleanup, and maintain a clean Color Object List

Custom Accordion Spacing

Create wave-like density shifts within a single accordion object for dynamic texture and visual flow. The possibilities are endless!

Redwork

Convert outlines into continuous Redwork with Single, Triple, Backstitch, or Stemstitch runs, all optimized for smooth pathing.build your own custom blends.

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Be in control of your embroidery digitizing

Reduce your outsourcing costs and ensure you never miss a deadline by being in control of your embroidery digitizing.

Use EmbroideryStudio Designing’s powerful digitizing tools to turn your customer’s artwork into simple or complex embroidery designs. Create precise embroidery shapes with fewer clicks and in less time, thanks to the many versatile digitizing tools on offer.

Automate your embroidery world

Why manually digitize all your designs when Wilcom's EmbroideryStudio Designing can do the hard work for you?

With Wilcom's Smart Design tools, digitizing your designs has never been easier. You can effortlessly convert entire bitmap images into fully digitized embroidery designs. This opens up endless possibilities to let your creativity flow with the help of our advanced features.

World's best lettering

EmbroideryStudio Designing is jam-packed and full of powerful capability for precise and reliable embroidered lettering. Select from a library of over 228 professionally digitized embroidery fonts or instantly convert any TrueType Font to embroidery. Stylize your typeface with your choice of baselines, spacing and kerning, justification, lettering art layouts, or custom enveloping shapes.

Get up and running fast

Exclusive to purchases made with us directly (or verified via the trial link) you will receive 2 hours free introductory online training.

For those who already digitize on other platforms or use vector based graphic software, the learning curve should be relatively easy. The way Wilcom's .EMB format works in terms of shape creation and node editing will be familiar within a short time.

Elements Added
as Standard!

EmbroideryStudio Designing 2026 now includes all add-on Elements in the standard package. That means 19 new features for Designing users.

Elements Added
as Standard!

EmbroideryStudio Designing 2026 now includes all add-on Elements in the standard package. That means 19 new features for Designing users.

Add depth and dimension to your embroidery with powerful shadows, shades and open fills.

Complex shadings and open fills add dimension, color and perspective to embroidered designs. Simple menu selections let you create a range of effects using complex combinations of stitch patterns, spacing, angles and more.
Create unique, flowing stitch patterns that add motion and dimension to any closed object

▪ Fills selected shapes with spiral running stitch which matches the outline of the shape
▪ Adjustable start point for the spiral provides many variations
▪ Convert to other stitch types including motif run and sequin run for amazing effects
Create unique, flowing stitch patterns that add motion and dimension to any closed object.

Complex shadings and open fills add dimension, color and perspective to embroidered designs. Simple menu selections let you create a range of effects using complex combinations of stitch patterns, spacing, angles and more.
Convert black and white, grayscale and color images into multi-color artistic stitching

▪ Converts any photographic file into a color digitized file
▪ Automatically handles spacing
▪ Specify row and stitch angles
Transform intricate images into single-color run stitches. Create captivating coral reef-like stitch pattern that concentrates on darker areas of the image for an artistic style.

▪ Converts any photographic file into a single colour digitised file
▪ Automatically handles spacing
Create mirror images of any object and then position it anywhere you like.

Use Mirror-Merge to flip an object horizontally and vertically or mirror objects on an axis that you draw. Reflection tools automatically create reflecting borders and wrap reflections around a center point to create wreath or kaleidoscope effects. Mirror-Merge is also a great tool for creating multiple copies of a repeating design like a badge.
Embolden logos, badges and other designs with distinctive, colorful borders.

▪ Creates automatic outlines and offset borders
▪ Borders can be any combination of 10 object types
▪ Multiple offsets each with its own independent object type, color, size and more

This video shows the complete process of creating a design starting from jpg image to finished embroidered sample using Wilcom EmbroideryStudio and HappyJapan single head embroidey machine

Contact us if you need any advice or want to arrange a demonstration

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