Finally find your digital DIY files again

Do you have lots of embroidery files or digital sewing patterns and often no longer know where everything is stored? emborado shows you a preview of each file and helps you quickly find your files again, even if you have forgotten the filename.

Linus working on an embroidery machine
Linus · Co-Founder Makes sure emborado runs smoothly and keeps improving.
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Our idea emborado helps you keep everything organised.
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The founding team of emborado
What We Work On Together Helping you find your digital DIY files again – without folder chaos.
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Max · Co-Founder Collects feedback, answers questions and makes emborado easy to understand.

What is emborado?

Get to know emborado: In this short film, we show the problem we set out to solve, how our platform works today, and where we want to take it in the future. We also share insights into our founding journey, our experiences as founders, and our vision for the future of emborado.

Why emborado makes file management easier

Discover the features that make managing your embroidery files and digital sewing patterns easier.

Preview of a digital sewing pattern in emborado

Image previews

Recognize digital sewing patterns from a preview instead of relying only on the PDF filename.

Content-based search in emborado

Content-based search

Find existing sewing patterns by their content without knowing the exact filename.

Practical filters in emborado

Helpful filters

Narrow down your sewing pattern collection with useful filters.

Online PDF preview in emborado

Online PDF preview

Open the associated PDF online without searching through your folders.

What our users say

More than 3000 creative users already trust emborado.

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Yvonne

Owner of Nadelbienen

“With emborado, I can find my files instantly instead of struggling through my folder chaos.”
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Ole

TeamTex GmbH

“emborado is a real game changer for our embroidery business. Finally, we have one central place to store all our files. Thread colors, embroidery positions, and images are documented, so we can reproduce jobs independently of individual employees. The powerful search and stitch-count preview even help with production planning. We wouldn’t want to run our shop without emborado anymore.”
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Ivonne

Owner of Nä-H-exe

“I used to spend more time searching for the right embroidery file than actually working on my projects. With emborado, I finally have a clear overview of my entire collection.”
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Carola

Enthusiastic Hobbyist

“An indispensable tool for me! I can focus on embroidering instead of spending time renaming and sorting. With this software, I always keep an overview — and still have time for beautiful embroidery projects.”
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Maike

Owner of Pfotenglück

“My market preparations were at risk when my laptop and operating system suddenly failed. I couldn't access my embroidery files – and without them, nothing worked. However, thanks to emborado, I could access the files I had already uploaded there. This allowed me to remain operational despite the technical failure.”

Would you finally like to bring order to your embroidery files or digital sewing patterns?

Start using emborado today and discover how easy managing your digital DIY files can be.

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  • Up to 25 digital sewing patterns
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Embroidery file management without folder chaos

emborado turns your embroidery files into a searchable design library

If you collect embroidery designs regularly, your library grows quickly: free designs, purchased bundles, customer files and different formats such as PES, DST, EXP, JEF, VP3, ART, CSD, KS, PCD, PCQ, PCM or TBF often end up in separate folders, ZIP archives and external drives. The difficult part is no longer owning the right motif, but finding it again when you want to use it.

emborado helps you organize that collection visually. After upload, your embroidery files are shown with preview images, so you do not have to guess what a file contains from a short or cryptic file name. You can search your library, compare designs and choose the right motif for a fabric, hoop size or thread color much faster.

For hobby embroiderers, that means more time at the machine and less time browsing folders. For small labels, sewing schools, designers and embroidery businesses, emborado creates one central place where motifs, customer files and file information stay easier to understand. Large collections especially benefit from a search experience based on what you are looking for: the actual embroidery design.

You do not have to reorganize everything at once. Start with the files you use most often, upload more motifs over time and let your visual library grow step by step. emborado helps reveal what would otherwise stay hidden in ZIP archives, old downloads and deeply nested folders.

Search faster

Find embroidery files with search, visual previews and clear file information.

Choose better

Review motifs faster with preview images and useful details.

Keep control

Growing libraries stay understandable and useful.

Manage digital sewing patterns centrally

Find digital sewing patterns before buying or downloading them again

Every new sewing project adds to your collection of digital sewing patterns. Individual PDF files, supplementary instructions and other associated files often end up in the downloads folder, ZIP archives or project folders with inconsistent names. Over time, it becomes difficult to remember which patterns you already own and where they are stored.

emborado brings these files together in one central place and shows image previews for your sewing patterns. Instead of relying on cryptic PDF filenames, you can recognize the garment, accessory or project behind a file more quickly. Content-based search also helps you find a pattern when you can no longer remember its exact filename.

Helpful filters let you narrow down a large sewing pattern collection. This turns an unclear download and folder structure into a visual library where existing patterns remain easier to find. The online PDF preview also lets you open the associated PDF directly without first searching for the right local folder.

Start with the patterns you sew most often and expand your central collection step by step. This makes it easier to keep track of a growing library, use patterns you have already purchased more often and spend less time searching through your file system.

Find visually

Recognize sewing patterns from image previews instead of PDF filenames alone.

Search precisely

Use content-based search and filters for your sewing pattern collection.

Manage centrally

Keep PDF files and associated information available in one place.