PES — Brother / Babylock Embroidery File

PES is the format of Brother embroidery machines, as well as compatible Babylock and newer Bernina ones. What sets it apart from the industrial Tajima DST is that thread colours are written right into the file: the machine itself shows which thread to load for each block, and a separate colour chart is not needed.

A city map in embroidery is a gift and a souvenir: a blanket, a pillowcase, a hoodie, children's clothes, a framed panel with the place you met or your home address. The export saves you the most tedious part — tracing streets and outlines by hand in an embroidery editor.

The exporter turns the map geometry into a running stitch along the lines: roads, water, green areas and building outlines are sewn along their own paths, thread colour is assigned by layer type, and long stretches are broken into stitches within the hardware limit of 12.1 mm. The size is fitted to the chosen hoop (4x4, 5x7 or 6x10 inches) with margins.

Let us be honest: this is a working blank, not a finished production design. There is no satin fill here, no underlay beneath dense areas and no manual optimization of jumps — those are added in PE-Design or Ink/Stitch, after which a test stitch-out on a scrap is a must.