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What's Your Surface Pattern Design DNA?

Discover your surface pattern design archetype with this free creative DNA quiz! Perfect for textile designers, surface pattern artists, and creative professionals looking to define their unique design style. Free instant results with shareable graphics included!

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Selling Artwork

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Portfolio Design

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Textile History

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Turn Your Artwork Into Textile Designs That Sell

Are you interested in creating artwork for the textile design industry but not sure how to get started? The Pattern Observer team has a free video training just for you.

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Pattern Designs

The pattern design community is a vibrant community of textile and surface pattern designers creating stunning artwork and sharing their craft with the world. Explore their work and read their stories in these inspiring posts.

What Is Pattern Design?


Pattern Design is the art of turning your artwork into stunning repeating patterns which are then applied to products. Products include fabrics, apparel, home decor, stationery and more. Explore just a few of our pattern design posts here.

At Pattern Observer we strive to help you grow your textile design business through our informative articles, interviews, tutorials, workshops and our private design community, The Textile Design Lab.

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