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A small, independent software studio

We make software good.
We make good software.

Friendly software that everyone can use.
Open tools that everyone can share.

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Independent tools. Shared possibilities.

A family of open tools

Useful on
their own.
More capable
together.

An application platform. A documentation system. An interface library. Each solves its own problem. Each helps the others get better.

Made by Threadlabs. Free and open source.
Yours to use, explore, and build on.

01 / Build

MarkupKit

Build applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Built on HTML Next, with components, routing, and server rendering in the languages of the web.

The platform beneath Markupress. Its documentation is built with Markupress, too.

Read the MarkupKit docs

02 / Publish

Markupress

Turn Markdown into a documentation site. Versions, navigation, and interactive examples, with room to make it your own.

Markupress uses MarkupKit for the platform and Looma for its interface.

Read the Markupress docs

03 / Compose

Looma

Interface building blocks, authored with HTML Next. Its editor uses Expressive Markdown to move between structured documents and readable text.

The components inside Markupress and Knit. Its docs bring the tools together.

Read the Looma docs

Shared foundations

We contribute to HTML Next and Expressive Markdown: community projects developing open standards proposals.

HTML Next

A proposed community standard for authoring components in HTML. Open for anyone to implement and use across stacks.

Explore HTML Next

We put care into every layer.
Then we share the pieces.

And then, something bigger

Good pieces.
Great things.

Meet Knit. A knowledge base for teams who write things down together, and actually find them again later.

Built with Looma, Knit gives our shared tools real work to do. The needs of a collaborative product help us improve the pieces everyone can use.

Meet Knit

Invitation-only public beta

Knit’s current List view: The Fellowship workspace, selectable pages, and a Camp supplies document with an editable table, colored status chips, and author details.
Product preview from knit.wiki.

Open source

Take it, share it,
build on it.

The work doesn’t stop at our products. We steward the Fair Labor License and are a primary contributor to Jess, Linecraft, and Parséman. More pieces for people to build on.

01

Fair Labor License

An open-source software licence project. Stewarded by Threadlabs.

Read the licence
02

Jess

A stylesheet language and toolchain for people who like CSS. Very early alpha.

Jess on GitHub

Thoughtful design, accessible tools, and care for the people who make them.

Still knitting

There’s more
on the loom.

Not everything we’re making is here yet. We’ll show it off when it’s ready. Threadlabs Studio is based in Port Moody, BC.