Cut one shape, ink it, and press it again and again. That is how printed cloth has been made for a thousand years — and how you make a pattern.
Choose a block
Ink colour
How it repeats
Cloth & block
The shape you carve is a block. The way it marches across the cloth is the repeat. Line the blocks up in rows and it feels calm and tidy; shift every second row by half a block — a brick repeat — and suddenly it dances. Same block, different rhythm.