Your pattern, in 13 languages, still looking like your pattern
Upload a pattern PDF, pick a language, and get the same document back with the stitch terms right and the layout untouched. No re-formatting, no glossary spreadsheets, no translator who has never held a hook.
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Most of your buyers do not shop in English
The Spanish, German, French and Japanese crochet markets are big, active, and mostly served by local designers, because translating a pattern has been genuinely hard. Generic translation mangles stitch terms: a literal translation of “sc” means nothing to a French crocheter who works in “ms”. And even when the words come out right, the text arrives as a wall that has to be laid out all over again.
So designers either skip international buyers entirely, or spend more time rebuilding translated PDFs than they spent designing. The translator exists to delete that choice.
How a translation runs
1. Load a pattern
Upload a PDF, DOCX, TXT or photo, or pick a pattern you wrote in the studio. It becomes the source document.
2. Pick the languages
One language or a batch. Thirteen targets, and the source does not have to be English.
3. The glossary does the craft
Stitch names, abbreviations and round conventions map to the target market's real crochet vocabulary, not a word-for-word guess.
4. Download your PDF, translated
Same pages, same images, same layout, new language. Every version is saved with the pattern for the next update.
What makes it different
Document-level translation with a crochet glossary is not something a general translation tool does. It is the difference between translated words and a sellable pattern.
The layout survives
Translation happens inside the document, so nothing has to be rebuilt in a design tool afterwards. This is the step every other workflow makes you do by hand.
Both directions
A French, Spanish or German pattern translates into clean English crochet terms, not just the other way round. Around a hundred language pairs pass through the crochet glossary.
Built for selling
Translations stay attached to the pattern, so when you revise a round you know exactly which language versions need refreshing before the next sale.
Questions designers ask
What languages can I translate a crochet pattern into?
Thirteen, beyond English: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Dutch, Swedish and Polish. You can translate one language at a time or several in a batch, and every finished translation is saved with the pattern.
Does it understand crochet terms, or is it just machine translation?
Both engines run together. The document goes through professional machine translation, and a crochet glossary rides along so that sc, inc, dec, magic ring and the rest map to the real crochet vocabulary of the target language rather than a literal word. The glossary works from non-English sources too: a French pattern's ms and aug come out as sc and inc.
Will the translated PDF look like my original?
Yes, that is the point of the whole design. Translation happens on the document itself, so pages, headings, images and tables stay where you put them. You do not get a wall of translated text to re-layout; you get your PDF, in another language.
What about US and UK terminology?
When translating from English you choose which convention the source uses, so a UK-terms pattern is not misread as US terms on the way in. The glossary handles the rest.
What can I upload?
A PDF, a Word document, a plain text file, or a photo of a printed pattern. Patterns written inside Amigurumake translate directly, no upload needed.
Why translate at all?
Because most crocheters do not shop in English. A designer selling only in English is invisible to the Spanish, German, French and Japanese pattern markets, which are large, active and underserved. A translated listing is often the only one of its kind in the niche.
Sell the pattern you already wrote, in markets you have never touched
Write it once, test it once, then let the same PDF earn in thirteen more languages.
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