Format guide

DST

Tajima DST

DST is Tajima's industrial embroidery file format and the most universally-supported design format on commercial machines. 512-byte header followed by 3-byte stitch records. Brother, Janome, Bernina, Singer, Husqvarna Viking, all read DST as a fallback even when their native format is different.

How to open a DST file

Every commercial embroidery machine. Free viewers: Embird (paid), Embroidermodder (free), online embroidery viewers like StitchView.

Primary use

Universal embroidery design interchange.

Convert other formats to DST

PES → DST (Tajima)
JEF → DST
EXP → DST

Convert DST to other formats

DST → PES (Brother)
DST → JEF (Janome)
DST → EXP (Melco)

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