To have quality embroidery you need quality digitizing. Wilcom's world-renowned and industry leading quality software will give you the powerful tools you need to excel in your business and create stunning, quality designs.

Creative input types

New to Wilcom ES 21D are Backstitch and Stemstitch input types.

Recreate original hand embroidery effects with these new, easy to use decorative tools. Backstitch forms a continuous thin line, similar to machine stitching, while Stemstitch produces rope-like lines which can vary in thickness depending on the angle of the stitches. Both can be used to make a smooth continuous row of stitching suitable for outlines.
Backstitch is represented by the Gold segment, Stemstich is represented by the Maroon 
Feature Focus :
Backstitch & Stemstitch

Commonly used to create hand embroidery, Backstitch and Stemstitch are popular in folk art, craft and home embroidery.  Now you can use these effects to give your designs a hand made appearance.

The user has full control over the thickness, spacing, and angle of each stem stitch.
Stemstich Backstitch

Stitch types and effects

Stitches are what embroidery is all about! Without quality stitches you won't have clean designs. Wilcom ES 21D has an amazing array of stitch types and stitch effects to give your designs life. Jagged Edge is now included standard in Wilcom ES 21D. Also available are:

Multiple stitch effects in one design
  • Manual Stitch
  • Run Stitch
  • Backstitch
  • Stemstitch
  • Satin Stitch
  • Zig Zag
  • Tatami
  • E-Stitch
  • Motif Fill
  • Program Split
Tools of the trade

Our legendary digitizing tools live up to any digitizing challenge. With less clicks and more accuracy, Wilcom ES 9 21D is your fast solution to professional digitizing. Included in 21D are our famous, industry leading tools:
  • Input A
  • Input B
  • Complex Fill with holes
  • Lettering
  • Single Run
  • Triple Run
  • Backstitch
  • Stemstitch
  • Manual Stitch
  • Triple Manual
(Auto Mitre corner shown) Quality Control

To match these quality stitch types and tools are stitch quality effects to improve and ensure the end quality of your design. Some of these include:
  • Automatic Pull compensation
  • Automatic Underlay with a choice of 2 underlay margins
  • Automatic Connectors (Trims and Tie-In's/Off's)
  • Automatic Smart Corners for greater quality in sewing
Vector file support - EPS, EMF, DXF, WMF

Have you ever created an image in such drawing programs as Corel Draw© or Adobe Illustrator© and wish you could import them straight into Wilcom ES to digitize?

With Wilcom ES 21D you can import vector files including EPS, EMF and DXF directly into the design window. Once imported, you can digitize on-screen like conventional artwork.
Smart design saves time Automatic Digitizing

Smart Design, Wilcom's automatic digitizing option, comes standard with Wilcom ES 21D. An extension of Point & Stitch™ technology, Smart Design recognizes shapes in bitmap images and makes decisions about the most suitable input methods and stitch types to use.

It also determines the stitching sequence based on closest join. Artwork is effectively 'batch processed' to create the many embroidery objects that make up a design, saving costly digitizing time.

Lettering, Editing, Digitizing

Not only do you get the power and precision of Wilcom digitizing, ES 21D is also a fully enabled lettering and editing system, continuing Wilcom's quality across all levels.





21D Digitizing Facts

  • 10 powerful digitizing tools
  • EPS Vector file support
  • Over 120 alphabets
  • Fancy stitch effects - Program Split, Motif fill, Jagged Edge
  • Smart Design automatic digitizing
  • Slow Redraw to simulate sewing
  • Process whole designs to reduce or increase stitch counts
  • Backstitch and Stemstitch
  • Quality control with Pull Compensation, Underlay, & Smart Corners
Major Feature List
(Summary Only)
  • 129 Alphabets and Symbols included
  • Create baselines
  • Change letter sewing sequence
  • Scale, rotate, skew and reshape text
  • Envelope - Bridge, Pennant, Perspective, Diamond
  •  New  Team Names/Individual Height
  •  New  Lettering Auto-Frame
  •  New  Lettering preview window
  •  New  True Type Fonts
  • Input A, Input B, Complex Fill
  • Single Run, Triple Run
  •  New  Backstitch
  •  New  Stemstitch
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  • Smart Design automatic digitizing
  •  New  Photo Flash-now standard
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  • Multiple Colorways
  • Print Production Worksheet and Production Summary
  • Direct connect to embroidery machines
  • Read / create embroidery disks or tapes
  • Send designs as attached files in e-mails
  • Export designs as BMP, JPG, PCX
  • Import bitmap drawings BMP, JPG, PCX
  •  New  Import Vector drawing-EPS-now standard
  • Import Vector drawing-EMF, WMF, DXF
  • View design in True View
  • Slow Redraw simulated sewing
  • Scale, rotate and mirror objects on-screen
  • Move and delete stitches with Stitch Edit
  • Manual Stitch
  • Program Split, Motif Fill
  •  New  Jagged Edge-Now standard
  • Automatic Pull Compensation
  • Column Width
  • Automatic Underlay
  • Shortening, Fractional Spacing
  • Edit machine functions and change machine type
  • Design Explorer
Options for ES21-D
  • Create custom alphabets
  • Input C
  • Smart Pack-Point & Stitch, Auto Trace
  • Integrated drawing tools
  • Create Motif Run
  • Cross Stitch
  • Standard Chenille
  •  New  Design Workflow

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