Cat Pattern

Make a seamless cat pattern from 10 motifs of our own: a cat sitting with its tail curled, a sleeping cat curled up, a cat face with whiskers, a stretching cat, a paw print, a fish, a ball of yarn, a food bowl with fish crackers, a round cat bed and a walking cat with its tail up. Scatter them in a half-drop, brick, grid or tossed repeat, put them on a yarn grid, on checks or with small paw prints at the corners, or run them in a border strip between rows of paw prints, little fish or yarn. Pick a ground, a motif colour, an accent colour and a ground 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 cat 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 yarn grid, corner paw prints or checks) and its line width; for a border strip, choose the edges (paw prints, fish, yarn 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 ground-pattern 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, pillow and tote mock-ups (real-size tile)
• Wrapping paper, cards and gift bags for cat lovers
• Border strips for shelf edges, ribbons and scrapbook pages
• Phone, desktop and slide backgrounds (PNG at exact sizes)
• Pet-shop and vet-clinic flyers and stickers
• Stencil and stamp planning

The 14 presets

#	Preset	Motif set	Repeat	Ground or edges	Tile
1	Cats and paws on cream, half-drop	All 10 motifs	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
2	Yarn grid with cat faces, blush pink	Faces and paws	Grid	Yarn grid	5 × 5 in
3	Black cats on white, grid	Cats	Grid	None	5 × 5 in
4	Ginger cats on teal, brick	Cats	Brick	None	5 × 5 in
5	Fish, yarn, bowls and beds, tossed	Cat things	Tossed	None	5 × 5 in
6	Cat faces with paw prints at the corners, grid	Cat face with whiskers only	Grid	Paw prints at the cell corners	5 × 5 in
7	Nap time: sleeping cats and beds, half-drop	Nap time	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
8	Border strip: walking cats between paw-print rows	Walking cat with its tail up only	Border strip	Row of paw prints edges	6 × 1.7 in
9	Border strip: cat faces between rows of fish	Cat face with whiskers only	Border strip	Row of little fish edges	6 × 1.7 in
10	Border strip: balls of yarn between yarn bands	Ball of yarn only	Border strip	Twisted yarn band edges	6 × 1.7 in
11	Cat faces on checks, grid	Cat face with whiskers only	Grid	Checks	5 × 5 in
12	Tiny paw prints and fish, ditsy print	Faces and paws	Tossed	None	3.6 × 3.6 in
13	Pastel lilac cats, tossed	Cats	Tossed	None	5 × 5 in
14	Fabric scale: 20 cm repeat, yarn grid	Cats	Grid	Yarn grid	20 × 20 cm

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

The 10 cat motifs

Motif	Symmetry (tested on every point)
Cat sitting with its tail curled	one-sided
Sleeping cat, curled up	one-sided
Cat face with whiskers	mirrored left to right
Stretching cat	one-sided
Cat paw print	mirrored left to right
Fish	one-sided
Ball of yarn	one-sided
Food bowl with fish crackers	mirrored left to right
Round cat bed	mirrored left to right
Walking cat with its tail up	one-sided

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	cat sitting with its tail curled, sleeping cat, curled up, cat face with whiskers, stretching cat, cat paw print, fish, ball of yarn, food bowl with fish crackers, round cat bed, walking cat with its tail up
Cats	cat sitting with its tail curled, sleeping cat, curled up, stretching cat, walking cat with its tail up
Faces and paws	cat face with whiskers, cat paw print
Cat things	fish, ball of yarn, food bowl with fish crackers, round cat bed
Nap time	sleeping cat, curled up, round cat bed, ball of yarn

Grounds and border edges

Ground or edge	What is drawn	Used with
Yarn grid	a twisted strand along every cell edge	Grid repeat
Paw prints at the cell corners	Paw prints at the cell corners	Grid repeat
Checks	every second cell filled	Grid repeat
Row of paw prints	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Row of little fish	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Twisted yarn band	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
Cat motifs as a seamless repeat or border strip	Cat Pattern (this page)
Dogs, bones and paw prints as a repeat	Dog Pattern
A shape of your own as a repeat	SVG Pattern Generator
Plain dots in a grid	Polka Dot Pattern Generator
A phone wallpaper with a quote	Phone Wallpaper Maker

To repeat a shape of your own, try the SVG Pattern Generator; for plain dots, the Polka Dot Pattern Generator; to add a quote over a pattern on a phone screen, the Phone Wallpaper Maker.

Frequently asked questions

Which cat motifs are there?

10: a cat sitting with its tail curled, a sleeping cat curled up, a cat face with whiskers, a stretching cat, a cat paw print, a fish, a ball of yarn, a food bowl with fish crackers, a round cat bed and a walking cat with its tail up. Each can be used on its own, or in the mixed sets.

Is it a particular breed or a famous cat?

No. The cats are our own simple drawings of no particular breed, and none is a cartoon, mascot or character. Pick any colours you like: black on white, ginger on teal or pastel lilac are presets.

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); 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, strand, paw print or band 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 do the grounds do?

A yarn grid runs a twisted strand along every cell edge, so each motif sits in its own frame. Corner paw prints put one small paw print on every cell corner. Checks fill every second cell, like a chequerboard. The maker keeps every motif clear of the ground by half the gap you set, and tells you the spacing needed if it does not fit.

Can I make a cat border?

Yes. Choose the Border strip repeat: one row of motifs runs between two edge bands (paw prints, little fish, a yarn band, or plain rules and dots). The SVG tile joins end to end, so a border can be as long as you need.

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.