FreeSewing

Made-to-measure sewing patterns

Is FreeSewing Belgian? Yes, open source from Antwerp.

Open-source software that generates bespoke sewing patterns, with its MIT-licensed code hosted on Codeberg.

Belgian open source

An open-source product created or substantially maintained from Belgium.

Joost De Cock’s GitHub profile gives his location as Antwerp and calls him the benevolent dictator of FreeSewing; the FreeSewing site introduces him as its founder and maintainer, and the project’s MIT-licensed monorepo on Codeberg had a release in September 2026.

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Digital product, open source
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Antwerp, Flanders

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