License

The grant

Every purchase grants a non-exclusive commercial license to the buyer — an individual or a single business — to use the patterns, including recolored and generated versions, in their own designs and in physical and digital products they sell.

Physical and digital products both count: fabric, apparel, wallpaper, packaging, stationery, print-on-demand items, websites, and digital designs. No attribution is required, and there is no limit on how many items you make or sell.

At a glance

What you may do

• Use the patterns in your own designs, commercially or personally.
• Use them in physical products you sell: fabric, apparel, wallpaper, packaging, stationery, and print-on-demand items.
• Use them in digital products you sell: websites, templates you build, and digital designs.
• Recolor the patterns and use the recolored versions.
• Use patterns you generate or build yourself with the Studio Editions.
• Modify, crop, scale, layer, and combine the patterns with your own work.
• Use them in work you produce for a client.
• Keep using patterns you have already downloaded, for as long as you like.

What you may not do

• Resell, share, or distribute the pattern files themselves, original or modified — including as digital papers, pattern packs, templates, or design files.
• Use the patterns in a logo or a trademark.
• Use the patterns in NFTs or any other crypto-token.
• Use the patterns to train AI models.
• Share, publish, sell, or transfer your license code or activation link.

A note on reselling the files

The line to keep in mind is between using a pattern and supplying it. Printing a pattern onto something you sell is use, and that is what this license is for. Handing the pattern itself to someone else — as a file, a digital paper, a pattern pack, a template, a design asset, or a layered file with the pattern in it as a reusable element — is supply, and that is not allowed, whether you modified it first or not.

Client work sits on the use side. You can design something for a client using these patterns and deliver the finished design, including a print-ready file of that design. What you cannot do is hand the client the pattern as a separate asset for them to reuse.

Logos, trademarks, NFTs, and AI training

Four uses are excluded outright, and they are excluded for specific reasons.

Logos and trademarks are excluded because a trademark is a claim of exclusivity, and these patterns are licensed non-exclusively to everybody who buys them. Registering one as part of a mark would put you in conflict with every other licensee.

NFTs and other crypto-tokens are excluded. The patterns may not be minted, tokenized, or sold as or within any crypto-token.

Training AI models is excluded. The patterns may not be used as training data, fine-tuning data, or reference material for any machine learning model.

Sharing your license code or activation link is excluded. A license covers one individual or one business. The code is how it is held, and passing it on is passing on the license.

How long it lasts

The license is perpetual for patterns you have already downloaded. Once a file is on your machine, under this license, it stays licensed — nothing expires, nothing has to be renewed, and nothing is switched off if this site changes.

The license ends when a purchase is refunded. If you take a refund, the license for that purchase ends, including for patterns you had already downloaded, and you should stop using them in anything you sell. See the Refund Policy.

Who the license covers

One license covers one individual or one business. If you are a sole trader, that is you and your business together. If you are a company, it covers the company, and the people in it can use the patterns for the company's work.

It does not stretch across separate businesses, and it is not a reseller or distributor license. If you need something broader, get in touch through the Contact page and say what you need.

Patterns you make yourself

Patterns you generate with Pattern Generator Studio, and repeats you build from your own motifs with Repeat Builder, are covered by the same commercial license on the same terms. Your own artwork stays yours; using Repeat Builder on it gives us no claim over it whatsoever.

Questions

If your use is not obviously covered by one of the lists above, ask before you build on it. Get in touch through the Contact page, describe what you want to do, and you will get a straight answer. The FAQ covers the questions that come up most often.