Here’s why size matters.
- Lene Kieberl
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
It never ceases to amaze me how different the vibes of one design can be when you change repeat sizes. My pattern designs often veer towards the bold, quirky and colorful and many work great when displayed larger. Imagine a patterned bathroom tile: if you align more of the same tiles on all four sides, you see a seamlessly repeating pattern design.
That’s what’s makes European fabric-provider Loominate stand out: it gives you as a customer a lot of control over how big a design should be to work best for your project. Detailed patterns can look a little busy when you shrink them down, others can happily shine when sized down for teeny tiny baby apparel.
Loominate lets you experience this live: when you’ve found a design you like, you can play with size and preview it on different mockups, meaning: images of products overlaid with the design. This ensures you get the wanted effect. Here’s Rugged Stone Textures Tesselating, an abstract, highly textured design of mine, at 80%, 50% and 10% size:
Notice how texture is front and center at the largest scale, whereas in the smallest version (10% is the lowest you can go) it blends into a busy rhythm. Here I think the sweet spot lies in medium (50%) where we go from amorphous, highly textured camouflage (L) to textured japandi clouds (M). Any smaller, we almost get a houndstooth effect (S).
In this short video, I'll show you how to change the scale of the pattern repeat and check how it looks on mockups:
If you want to try it for yourself: get browsing and start scaling – maybe you’ll find a favorite in my Collection of the Month April!
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