Repeat Pattern

"The point where an identical design begins again on a textile is called a repeat. Textile designers use repeats because they can enable large pieces of fabrics to be printed without breaks or awkward gaps in a pattern."

Repeats can be made from one individual drawing, repeating this to make a whole pattern of the same image, there are many different types of repeat pattern with textiles; 'block repeat', 'half-brick' repeat, and a 'half-drop repeat'. All of these techniques differ the arrangement of the pattern, the 'block repeat' being a layout of a simple grid so that the image repeated is always pointing in the same direction in rows that line up perfectly, the 'half-brick repeat', 'this repeat pattern gets its name from the resemblance to how bricks are laid to form a brick wall', the rows of pattern don't line up with the ones above them so it means that the pattern is neither vertical or horizontally lined up. Moreover, the 'half-drop' repeat is the same as the previous repeat, however is placed vertically, so its pattern is ordered how a brick wall would look vertically. All of these types of repeat pattern create a different image and depending on the image, scale or design.

Here is an example of a block print:

My own design portraying 'half-drop' repeat: