History
The program was named after mother of the founder Roman Telezhynskyi, a cutter by profession, who gave him the idea for the project.
The main idea of the seawing patterns making software package is in combining new technologies with old methods of designing of clothing patterns. The main feature is the work with parametric patterns and measurements tables.
The project was started in 2013 by Roman Telezhynskyi (Ukraine) and Susan Spencer (USA). On October 2013, Valentina 0.2.0, the first public release, was rolled out.
After release of Valentina 0.5.0 on 9 May 2017, Spencer forked Valentina into Seamly2D. Telezhynskyi decided to continue development of original project themself and on 1 October 2018 released the next version – Valentina 0.6.0, followed by few minor releases same year and ceased development since then.
In 2020–2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and countrywide lockdown, the development of project revamped and continued during Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022.
On 21 July 2025, Roman Telezhynskyi released Valentina 1.0.0, bringing UI redesign, additional file formats support and other changes. Since this release, binary builds provided via paid subscription, were old releases binary archived and available for free. Some Linux distributions continue to provide binary packages via official repositories, also users could compile binary from freely available sources itself.
On 21 June 2026, Valentina 1.1.0 was released as the first release of the next 1.1.x development branch with a set of new tools for curves, pattern's history, etc. Staring from this release support for Windows older than Windows 10 was dropped.
Features
Valentina main window UI consists of main window with 3 workbenches:
- Draw – to draw pattern pieces;
- Detail – to combine pieces in details;
- Layout – to organize parts for printing.
Toolbars and tool widgets placed around main window and could be reorganized.
Pattern messages widget provides warnings and errors notifications.
Variables Table widget allows creating and managing measurements variables used in parametric drawing.
Additional workbenches available as separate windows:
- Label template editor – to create labels;
- Watermark editor – to create watermarks;
- Tape – to create measurements tables;
- Puzzle – to create puzzle patterns.
.vit / .vst (Valentina individual and multisize measurements tables, XML-based).vlt (Valentina puzzle).m (Valentina watermarks)- SVG font (stroke fonts, editable with Inkscape)
Export
- PLT (HP-GL)
- DXF AAMA/ASTM (for export to Clo3D)
- CSV
- SVG
- PDF (for export patterns)
