{
 "id": "vip",
 "name": "VIP",
 "category": "other",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "vip"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "application/octet-stream"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/2001"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q105853137"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "5dfc9001"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Husqvarna / Pfaff Embroidery Stitch File",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "(5b|5d)(af|ff|fc)9001"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "A VIP embroidery file, and later the VP3 and VP4, are design files created by Husqvarna-Viking, a Swedish company that creates sewing machines. Computerised embroidery machines such as this those made by this company have been in production since the early 1990's with support for a specialized memory card, floppy disk, and USB connections. The VIP format replaced the HUS format after a merger of the company with PFAFF in the late 1990s. VP3 and VP4 followed with further collaborations and updates.",
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/VIP",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/2001",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/2001",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q105853137",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105853137",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "tools": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}