Designing your own punch card Two pre-designed punch cards and one blank punch card You can use pre-made punch cards or create your own design using a blank punch card. With a special tool, you'll punch holes in the blank card. Make sure to pre-plan your design, as mistakes are easily made. Our tips for planning your design: Grid paper and a pencil Excel (scale the cells to be square) Adacad , an open source program for weaving. As weaving and knitting design both use binary code, you can use the program for this purpose as well. Link: https://adacad-4-1.web.app/ . Steps: Select "add draft" on the left top, enter the amount of vertical under "warps" and the amount of horizontal rows under "weft". Click on the draft that appears, select "draft" at the top of the page. Under "loom type", on the left of the page, select "jacquard". Click on a square in your draft now and it turns black. Make your design. Save it by pressing the house icon --> "export as" --> the file type you want.    Reading the punch card: