Independent software studio

Software should
feel better.

Threadlabs is building thoughtful products and open foundations for people making things.

What we make

Every product,
held to one
standard.

We do not force separate products into a suite. Each one earns its place by being genuinely useful to the people it serves. Knit and Looma are the ones you can use today.

01

Knit

A calmer knowledge base for individuals and small teams: a focused place to write, organize, and find the context that matters. Invitation-only public beta.

Visit Knit
02

Looma

An open-source interface library built on web standards. Components are authored once as markup and lower to native HTML, so a page gets the elements the browser already knows. Threadlabs maintains Looma and builds Knit with it.

Read the Looma docs

Open source

Open work
is still work.

We publish foundations people can inspect, adapt, and build on. Commercial work funds the maintenance, documentation, and accessibility that keep them useful.

01

Looma

Interface foundations, built on web standards. Maintained by Threadlabs.

Looma documentation
02

Fair Labor License

A software licence that connects free operational use to a quantitative standard for fair compensation. Stewarded by Threadlabs.

Read the licence

Threadlabs is also a primary contributor to Jess, Linecraft, and Parséman.

What matters here

A small set of priorities,
taken seriously.

01

Useful and intuitive

Software should help people move, without making them learn its internal logic first.

02

Quality all the way down

Good experience, accessibility, documentation, and dependable foundations belong together.

03

Open and sustainable

Public work deserves lasting care, and the people who make it deserve fairness and dignity.

Still taking shape

We’re sharing more
as we go.

Not everything we work on is here yet. Threadlabs Studio is based in Port Moody, BC.