Celestial Pattern

Make a seamless celestial pattern from 12 motifs of our own: a rayed sun, a flame sun and an eclipse; a crescent, a half moon and a cratered full moon; a ringed and a banded planet; a comet with three tails; and a five-point star, a four-point sparkle and an eight-point burst. Every set mixes suns, moons, planets or the comet, with stars as accents. Set the motifs in a half-drop (every second column moved down exactly half a cell), a brick repeat, a plain grid or tossed (each turned by a seeded angle), pick a ground and two colours, such as gold on navy or mustard on cream, 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 celestial pattern

1. Choose a preset, or pick a motif set and a repeat (half-drop, brick, grid or tossed).
2. Set the columns, rows and spacing (a half-drop or tossed repeat needs an even number of columns, a brick repeat an even number of rows).
3. Set the motif size, the smallest gap, the largest turn for a tossed repeat and the seed (the seed shuffles which motif goes where and how each one turns).
4. Pick the ground, the main colour and a second colour for rings, bands, tails and centres.
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

• Night-sky gift wrap, tags and paper
• Nursery walls, fabric and cushion mock-ups (real-size tile)
• Phone, desktop and slide backgrounds (PNG at exact sizes)
• Journal, planner and scrapbook pages
• Screen-print, vinyl and sticker-sheet planning (SVG tile)
• Space-party and baby-shower stationery

The 13 presets

#	Preset	Motif set	Repeat	Motifs per repeat	Tile
1	Celestial night: gold on navy, half-drop	All 12	Half-drop	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
2	Suns and moons, mustard on cream, brick	Suns and moons	Brick	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
3	Terracotta suns and crescents on sand, grid	Sun, crescent, star and sparkle	Grid	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
4	Planets and comets on deep purple, tossed	Planets and a comet with stars and sparkles	Tossed	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
5	Black on white, every motif, tossed	All 12	Tossed	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
6	Pastel nursery: moons, planets and sparkles on lilac, grid	Moons and planets with stars and sparkles	Grid	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
7	Silver moons and planets on indigo, half-drop	Moon shapes and planets	Half-drop	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
8	Tiny suns and moons, ditsy print	Sun, crescent, star and sparkle	Tossed	6 × 6	3.6 × 3.6 in
9	Teal and coral suns and planets, brick	Suns, planets and a comet	Brick	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
10	Eclipses and flame suns, gold on black, half-drop	Glow	Half-drop	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
11	Dusk: pink and orange on plum, tossed	All 12	Tossed	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
12	Sunny: suns, crescents and sparkles on white, brick	Sun, crescent, star and sparkle	Brick	4 × 4	5 × 5 in
13	Fabric scale: 20 cm repeat, suns, moons and planets	All 12	Half-drop	4 × 4	20 × 20 cm

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

The 12 motifs

Motif	Group	Symmetry (tested on every point)
Rayed sun	Sun	mirrored left to right
Flame sun	Sun	mirrored left to right
Eclipse with a ray ring	Sun	mirrored left to right
Crescent moon	Moon	mirrored left to right
Half moon (lit and dark halves)	Moon	not mirrored
Full moon with craters	Moon	not mirrored
Ringed planet	Planet	not mirrored
Banded planet	Planet	mirrored left to right
Comet with three tails	Comet	not mirrored
Five-point star	Star	mirrored left to right
Four-point sparkle with two dots	Star	mirrored left to right
Eight-point burst	Star	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 8 motif sets

Set	Motifs
All 12	rayed sun, flame sun, eclipse with a ray ring, crescent moon, half moon (lit and dark halves), full moon with craters, ringed planet, banded planet, comet with three tails, five-point star, four-point sparkle with two dots, eight-point burst
Suns and moons	rayed sun, flame sun, crescent moon, half moon (lit and dark halves), full moon with craters
Sun, crescent, star and sparkle	rayed sun, crescent moon, five-point star, four-point sparkle with two dots
Planets and a comet with stars and sparkles	ringed planet, banded planet, comet with three tails, five-point star, four-point sparkle with two dots
Moons and planets with stars and sparkles	crescent moon, full moon with craters, ringed planet, four-point sparkle with two dots, five-point star
Glow	eclipse with a ray ring, flame sun, eight-point burst, crescent moon
Suns, planets and a comet	rayed sun, eclipse with a ray ring, ringed planet, banded planet, comet with three tails
Moon shapes and planets	crescent moon, half moon (lit and dark halves), full moon with craters, ringed planet, banded planet

Every set mixes at least two of suns, moons, planets and the comet; our tests check each set and each preset tile.

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
Suns, moons and planets in a seamless repeat	Celestial Pattern (this page)
Stars alone in a seamless repeat	Star Pattern
A shape of your own as a repeat	SVG Pattern Generator
A pattern sized for a phone screen	Phone Wallpaper Maker
A sun or moon cut as a stencil	Stencil Maker

To repeat a shape of your own, try the SVG Pattern Generator; for a picture sized to a phone screen, the Phone Wallpaper Maker; to cut a sun or moon as a wall stencil, the Stencil Maker.

Frequently asked questions

Is it a real star chart or a zodiac design?

No. The suns, moons, planets, comet and stars are our own flat drawings, placed by the repeat, not by any real sky. There are no zodiac signs, no constellations and no faces.

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

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. 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 suns, moons and planets overlap?

No. Each motif sits in the middle of its own square cell, turned or not, and the maker refuses a size that would come closer than the smallest gap you set to the edge of its cell; it tells you the spacing needed. Our tests check every point of every motif against its cell.

Will the pattern repeat without a seam?

Yes. A motif or line 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.

Can I make a stars-only or moon-only pattern?

Every motif set here mixes at least two of suns, moons, planets and the comet, with stars as accents. For stars alone, use the Star Pattern maker.

Are the motifs symmetrical?

The suns, crescent, banded planet and the stars are mirror-symmetric left to right, and our tests check every point. The half moon, cratered moon, ringed planet and comet are drawn one-sided on purpose. The cratered moon and flame sun have true holes that show the ground.

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.