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What's a Seamless Repeating Pattern?

A seamless repeating pattern is a design that when duplicated and tiled side-by-side, the edges match up with no gaps. These patterns can repeat continuously and cover as much area as you need. Spoonflower is all about these repeating patterns! It’s how we best print your designs on our products. We take the design file you upload and place it side-by-side in order to extend your art to cover yardage of fabric and rolls of wallpaper.

When you upload a design to Spoonflower, you are able to tile your design in a few different ways. If your art has a clean solid colored background with no imagery on the edges, you are good to go! Just upload and select your type of repeat. You can learn more about these different repeat options, here.

There are plenty of other ways to get more creative with your repeating pattern. If you decide you want to create a more complicated design that does have imagery that crosses over the edges of the file, you have to be a bit more strategic in how you place the elements in the file.  If you set it up correctly, the design tile will appear seamless when repeated.  Check out the tutorials below to learn a few different methods for setting up a seamless repeat!
 

  1. Tutorial: Creating a Seamless Repeat from a Drawing
    photograph of hands holding a marker and coloring a floral drawing
     

  2. Tutorial: Create A Seamless Repeat For Spoonflower Using Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
    screenshot from photoshop of a round mandala floral design
     

  3. Tutorial: Create a Seamless Repeat for Spoonflower using Procreate
    screenshot from procreate of a seamless repeat being built out of individual coffee cup images


     

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