What size should a repeat be?

It depends on the product and the printer. Fabric is often printed with repeats of several inches up to two feet; gift wrap and packaging usually want something smaller. Tell us what it’s for and who prints it, and we set it to suit.

Can you turn my drawing or painting into a pattern?

Yes. We clean up your artwork, build the repeat around it, and keep your hand in it rather than redrawing it into something generic.

Can the pattern go on my packaging too?

Yes. Patterns often end up on the box, the tissue and the label as well as the product. We carry the pattern across your packaging and labels so it all matches.

Print & packaging design

Seamless pattern design for fabric, paper and packaging

A good pattern disappears into itself: no visible seam, no line where one tile meets the next, no motif that jumps out every foot of fabric. We design repeat patterns that tile cleanly at the size they’ll be printed, for fabric, wallpaper, gift wrap, packaging and print-on-demand products, and deliver the tile in the format your printer or platform asks for.

Ask a designer New design: from $125

A seamless tile pattern of pink flowers and green leaves on cream — Style references for this service, not client work.

What we design

Seamless repeats: full drop, half drop, brick and mirror
Florals, folk and botanical prints, geometrics, conversationals and textures
Collections: a hero print with coordinates and blenders that work together
Patterns for boxes, labels, tissue paper and box liners
Files for Spoonflower, fabric and wallpaper printers, and print-on-demand shops

Built to tile at print size

The repeat size set from the product: a fabric repeat is not a gift-box repeat
Checked at 100% and tiled three by three before delivery, so no seam or hot spot shows
Vector where it can be, or 300 dpi at the full repeat size
A limited palette with named spot colors for screen-printed fabric
CMYK or RGB to suit the printer: many digital fabric printers want RGB

What you get

The repeat tile, a tiled preview, each colorway, and the source file. For a collection, one sheet showing every print together, ready to send to a manufacturer.

Price

From $125. Fixed before we start.

Send the file or the idea in the chat and a designer usually answers within minutes with a fixed price. Nothing starts until you say yes. Bigger jobs are quoted in writing first. See all prices.

Print-ready PDF plus the source file
Bleed, CMYK, fonts and dielines checked twice
A short note of what we changed
Several jobs a month? Plans from $299/month
Print shop? We work white-label

Questions

What size should a repeat be?: It depends on the product and the printer. Fabric is often printed with repeats of several inches up to two feet; gift wrap and packaging usually want something smaller. Tell us what it’s for and who prints it, and we set it to suit.
Can you turn my drawing or painting into a pattern?: Yes. We clean up your artwork, build the repeat around it, and keep your hand in it rather than redrawing it into something generic.
Can the pattern go on my packaging too?: Yes. Patterns often end up on the box, the tissue and the label as well as the product. We carry the pattern across your packaging and labels so it all matches.

Related services

Labels, stickers & packagingLabels, boxes and cartons designed or fixed on your printer’s dieline: cut and crease on their own layers, bleed past every cut, barcodes that scan.See the service Sticker designCustom stickers and sticker sheets with the cut line done right: die-cut and kiss-cut contours, white ink layers and bleed, ready for your printer.See the service Tumbler & mug wrapsSublimation tumbler wraps and mug designs sized to your blank, straight or tapered, seamless where the wrap meets, ready to print and press.See the service

Or see all our print design services.

Not sure what your file needs?

Ask a question or send the file in the chat. A designer usually answers within minutes with a fixed price, and nothing starts until you say yes.

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