Dog Pattern

Make a seamless dog pattern from 10 motifs of our own: a sitting dog with floppy ears, a dog face, a bone, a dog paw print, a ball with a seam, a dog house, a wide dog bowl with a bone, a trotting dog, a dog lying down with its head on its paws and a collar with a round tag. Scatter them in a half-drop, brick, grid or tossed repeat, put them on a diamond lattice, on checks or with small bones at the corners, or run them in a border strip between rows of bones, rows of paw prints or chequered bands. 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 dog 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, corner bones, a diamond lattice or checks) and its line width; for a border strip, choose the edges (bones, paw prints, chequered band 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, bandana-size squares and pillow mock-ups (real-size tile)
• Wrapping paper, cards and party bags for dog lovers
• Border strips for shelf edges, ribbons and scrapbook pages
• Phone, desktop and slide backgrounds (PNG at exact sizes)
• Groomer, walker and pet-shop flyers and stickers
• Stencil and stamp planning

The 14 presets

#	Preset	Motif set	Repeat	Ground or edges	Tile
1	Dogs and bones on cream, half-drop	All 10 motifs	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
2	Dog faces with bones at the corners, grid	Dog face with floppy ears only	Grid	Small bones at the cell corners	5 × 5 in
3	Paw prints on a diamond lattice, mint	Dog paw print only	Grid	Diamond lattice	5 × 5 in
4	White dogs on navy, grid	Dogs	Grid	None	5 × 5 in
5	Red dogs and bones on white, brick	All 10 motifs	Brick	None	5 × 5 in
6	Park day: dogs, balls, bones and paws, tossed	Park day	Tossed	None	5 × 5 in
7	Balls, dog houses, bowls and collars, half-drop	Dog things	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
8	Border strip: trotting dogs between rows of bones	Trotting dog only	Border strip	Row of bones edges	6 × 1.7 in
9	Border strip: dog faces between paw-print rows	Dog face with floppy ears only	Border strip	Row of paw prints edges	6 × 1.7 in
10	Border strip: bones between chequered bands	Bone only	Border strip	Chequered band edges	6 × 1.7 in
11	Sitting dogs on checks, grid	Sitting dog with floppy ears only	Grid	Checks	5 × 5 in
12	Tiny bones and paw prints, ditsy print	Bones and paws	Tossed	None	3.6 × 3.6 in
13	Black on white, every motif, grid	All 10 motifs	Grid	None	5 × 5 in
14	Fabric scale: 20 cm repeat, diamond lattice	Bones and paws	Grid	Diamond lattice	20 × 20 cm

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

The 10 dog motifs

Motif	Symmetry (tested on every point)
Sitting dog with floppy ears	mirrored left to right
Dog face with floppy ears	mirrored left to right
Bone	mirrored left to right
Dog paw print	mirrored left to right
Ball with a seam	one-sided
Dog house	mirrored left to right
Wide dog bowl with a bone	mirrored left to right
Trotting dog	one-sided
Dog lying down, head on its paws	one-sided
Collar with a round tag	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	sitting dog with floppy ears, dog face with floppy ears, bone, dog paw print, ball with a seam, dog house, wide dog bowl with a bone, trotting dog, dog lying down, head on its paws, collar with a round tag
Dogs	sitting dog with floppy ears, trotting dog, dog lying down, head on its paws, dog face with floppy ears
Bones and paws	bone, dog paw print
Dog things	ball with a seam, dog house, wide dog bowl with a bone, collar with a round tag
Park day	trotting dog, ball with a seam, bone, dog paw print

Grounds and border edges

Ground or edge	What is drawn	Used with
Small bones at the cell corners	Small bones at the cell corners	Grid repeat
Diamond lattice	diagonal lines, a dot at every corner	Grid repeat
Checks	every second cell filled	Grid repeat
Row of bones	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Row of paw prints	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Chequered 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
Dog motifs as a seamless repeat or border strip	Dog Pattern (this page)
Cats, fish and yarn as a repeat	Cat Pattern
A shape of your own as a repeat	SVG Pattern Generator
A motif cut as a stencil	Stencil Maker
Plain dots in a grid	Polka Dot Pattern Generator

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

Frequently asked questions

Which dog motifs are there?

10: a sitting dog with floppy ears, a dog face with floppy ears, a bone, a dog paw print, a ball with a seam, a dog house, a wide dog bowl with a bone, a trotting dog, a dog lying down with its head on its paws and a collar with a round tag. Each can be used on its own, or in the mixed sets.

Is it a particular breed or a famous dog?

No. The dogs are our own simple drawings of no particular breed, and none is a cartoon, mascot or character. Pick any colours you like: white on navy, red on white or brown on cream are presets.

How is the dog paw print different from the cat paw print?

On the Cat Pattern page the paw print has one round pad and four round toes close together. Here the pad has three lobes and the four toes are longer, spread wider and carry claw tips. Both are our own drawings, and our tests check that the two outlines differ.

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?

Corner bones put one small bone, turned 45°, on every cell corner. The diamond lattice draws thin diagonal lines through the middle of every cell edge, so each motif sits in a diamond, with a dot where the lines meet. Checks fill every second cell. 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.

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.