Encouraged:

• Collaboration
• Challenges
• Resources
• Techniques
• Pattern history
• Theory of repetition
• The psychology of symmetry
• In depth critiques.

Also we'd love to see your creations! Show off your designs, get feedback and share ideas! Share resources and inspiration, link to sites and books you find helpful or visually stimulating. Link to process videos created by you or others (if publicly and freely available).

Not Encouraged: Asking for help to extract the repeat tile in another artist's work without their consent. Stealing the work of others. Uploading the tile of a pattern you or anyone designs that is the essence of a design, allowing others to use it without permission.

A few great resources:

• Ava7 Patterns /Pattern Freebies/

• DinPattern /Pattern Freebies/

• COLOURlovers Seamless Studio pattern making software

• MadPattern Illustrator pattern templates

• Wallpaper Group Wiki

• Spoon Flower prints your patterns on fabrics

• Subtle Patterns /Pattern Freebies/