Western Pattern

Make a seamless western print from 10 motifs of our own: a cowboy boot, a cowboy hat, a horseshoe, a six-point badge star with ball tips, a coiled lasso, a cactus in a pot, a wagon wheel, a spur with a star rowel, a cowbell and a lantern. Scatter them in a half-drop, brick, grid or tossed repeat, box each one in a rope grid or put small stars on the corners, or run them in a border strip between two rope bands, two rows of stars or two rules. The motifs are pictures, not stepped geometric bands. Pick a ground, a motif colour, an accent colour and a rope colour, then download a seamless SVG tile at real size, a full-size PDF with a motif key, a 300 DPI PNG or a background PNG at an exact screen size. Nothing is uploaded.

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How to make a western pattern

1. Choose a preset, or pick a motif set and a repeat (half-drop, brick, grid, tossed or border strip).
2. For a grid, choose a ground (none, a rope grid or corner stars) and its line width; for a border strip, choose the edges (rope, stars or rules).
3. Set the columns, rows, spacing, motif size, smallest gap, seed and (for tossed) the largest turn.
4. Pick the ground, motif, accent and rope colours.
5. Download the SVG tile, a background PNG, or the PDF; print at 100% and check the 1 in test square.

What you can use it for

• Fabric, quilt and pillow mock-ups (real-size tile)
• Border strips for ribbons, hems, shelf edges and party tables
• Birthday and ranch-party wrapping paper, cards and banners
• Phone, desktop and slide backgrounds (PNG at exact sizes)
• Scrapbook and journal paper
• Stencil and stamp planning

The 14 presets

#	Preset	Motif set	Repeat	Ground or edges	Tile
1	Boots, hats and horseshoes on tan, half-drop	Ranch	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
2	Rope grid with horseshoes and stars, cream	Badge and spurs	Grid	Rope grid	5 × 5 in
3	White on denim blue, every motif, grid	All 10 motifs	Grid	None	5 × 5 in
4	Red ranch print on cream, brick	Ranch	Brick	None	5 × 5 in
5	Desert camp: cacti, wagon wheels and lanterns, tossed	Desert camp	Tossed	None	5 × 5 in
6	Corner stars with badges and spurs, grid	Badge and spurs	Grid	Small stars at the cell corners	5 × 5 in
7	Boots and hats only, half-drop, brown on sand	Boots and hats	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
8	Border strip: boots between rope bands	Boots and hats	Border strip	Rope band edges	6 × 1.7 in
9	Border strip: horseshoes between rows of stars	Horseshoe (open end up) only	Border strip	Row of stars edges	6 × 1.7 in
10	Black on white, every motif, half-drop	All 10 motifs	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
11	Turquoise and rust on sand, brick	All 10 motifs	Brick	None	5 × 5 in
12	Tiny horseshoes and stars, ditsy print	Badge and spurs	Tossed	None	3.6 × 3.6 in
13	Pastel pink boots and hats, tossed	Boots and hats	Tossed	None	5 × 5 in
14	Fabric scale: 20 cm repeat, rope grid	Ranch	Grid	Rope grid	20 × 20 cm

Each preset only fills in the fields; change any setting afterwards.

The 10 motifs

Motif	Symmetry (tested on every point)
Cowboy boot	one-sided
Cowboy hat	mirrored left to right
Horseshoe (open end up)	mirrored left to right
Six-point badge star with ball tips	mirrored left to right
Lasso (coiled rope loop)	one-sided
Cactus in a pot	one-sided
Wagon wheel	mirrored left to right
Spur with a star rowel	one-sided
Cowbell	mirrored left to right
Lantern	mirrored left to right

All motifs are our own drawings. Page 2 of the PDF draws each motif used, large, in the pattern colours.

The mixed motif sets

Set	Motifs
All 10 motifs	cowboy boot, cowboy hat, horseshoe (open end up), six-point badge star with ball tips, lasso (coiled rope loop), cactus in a pot, wagon wheel, spur with a star rowel, cowbell, lantern
Ranch	cowboy boot, cowboy hat, horseshoe (open end up), lasso (coiled rope loop)
Badge and spurs	six-point badge star with ball tips, horseshoe (open end up), spur with a star rowel, cowboy boot
Desert camp	cactus in a pot, wagon wheel, lantern, cowbell
Boots and hats	cowboy boot, cowboy hat

Grounds and border edges

Ground or edge	What is drawn	Used with
Rope grid	a rope along every cell edge	Grid repeat
Small stars at the cell corners	Small stars at the cell corners	Grid repeat
Rope band	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Row of stars	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Rules and dots	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip

Background sizes (first preset)

Background	Pixels	Repeats across × down
Phone	1170 × 2532 px	2.44 × 5.28
Phone	1080 × 1920 px	2.25 × 4
Desktop	1920 × 1080 px	4 × 2.25
Large screen	2560 × 1440 px	5.33 × 3
Square post	1080 × 1080 px	2.25 × 2.25

Which tool to use

You want	Use
Western motifs as a seamless repeat or border strip	Western Pattern (this page)
Heraldic charges, diapers and medieval borders	Medieval Pattern
A shape of your own as a repeat	SVG Pattern Generator
Plain dots in a grid	Polka Dot Pattern Generator
A motif cut as a stencil	Stencil Maker

To repeat a shape of your own, try the SVG Pattern Generator; for plain dots, the Polka Dot Pattern Generator; to cut a boot or star as a stencil, the Stencil Maker.

Frequently asked questions

Which motifs are there?

10: a cowboy boot, a cowboy hat, a horseshoe with the open end up, a six-point badge star with ball tips, a coiled lasso, a cactus in a pot, a wagon wheel, a spur with a star rowel, a cowbell and a lantern. Each can be used on its own, or in the mixed sets.

How is this different from a stepped geometric pattern?

This maker draws pictures: boots, hats, horseshoes, stars and ropes placed in cells. It does not draw stepped diamonds, stepped triangles or zigzag bands; our tests check that every motif has curved or slanted edges, not only steps.

What is the difference between half-drop, brick, grid, tossed and border?

In a grid, the motifs sit in straight rows and columns. In a half-drop, every second column is moved down exactly half a cell; in a brick repeat, every second row is moved across exactly half a cell. Tossed is a half-drop where each motif is also turned by a seeded angle up to the largest turn you set. Border makes one row of motifs between two edge bands, as a strip for hems, ribbons and page edges. A half-drop or tossed repeat needs an even number of columns and a brick repeat an even number of rows; the maker says so if they do not.

Can the motifs overlap?

No. Each motif sits in the middle of its own square cell, and the maker refuses a size that would come closer than the smallest gap you set to the edge of its cell (or to the ground lines); it tells you the spacing needed. Our tests check every point of every motif against its cell and the ground.

Will the pattern repeat without a seam?

Yes. A motif, rope, band or vine that runs over an edge of the repeat carries on from the opposite edge, so copies placed edge to edge join with no seam. Our tests check this two ways for every preset: each shape cut by an edge has its exact partner one repeat over in the same tile, and sampled colours match one repeat over.

What does the rope grid do?

It runs a twisted rope along every cell edge of a grid repeat, so each motif sits in its own rope frame. The rope is built from slanted twists; the maker keeps every motif clear of the rope by half the gap you set, and tells you the spacing needed if it does not fit.

Are these copies of a brand print?

No. Every motif, rope and star is our own drawing made of flat shapes, not a copy of a brand print, a film or a show.

Is the tile the exact size I set?

Yes. The SVG tile is written in inches or centimetres (the first preset is 5 in square: 4 cells of 1.25 in), and the PDF prints the pattern at full size with a 1 in test square.

Is it free?

Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.

Is anything uploaded?

No. Everything is drawn by JavaScript in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.