Photo in, pin sequence out.

Pick an image and the generator works out the order in which to wind thread around the pins of a circular, square or rectangular frame so the overlapping lines recreate it — in black, or in colours taken from the image itself. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

1 Source image

Drop an image here

or click to browse · you can also paste from the clipboard

High-contrast close-ups give the best results. The image is centre-cropped to the frame shape, and reduced to greyscale unless coloured thread is switched on.

2 Settings

Frame shape outline the pins sit on

Pins points around the frame

Threads how many lines to lay down

Thread weight how dark a single pass looks

Coloured thread wind several colours taken from the image

Advanced

Minimum pin gap bans very short chords

Contrast applied before solving

Frame width cm across, for the thread estimate

Working resolution

Preview

No image yet

Source

Nothing generated yet

String art

Ready.

3 Winding assistant

Walk through the sequence one thread at a time while you wind the real thing. Paste a sequence you saved earlier, or load one of the examples. A sequence saved by this page carries its frame shape and palette in the comment header; a bare list of pin numbers is drawn as black thread on a circular frame.

Pin sequence

Pins in this sequence

Examples:

Load a sequence to begin

Photo in, pin sequence out.

1 Source image

2 Settings

Result

Preview

3 Winding assistant