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Arts & Crafts Pattern Repeats

The Colour-Way Switcher

Arts-and-Crafts ogee botanical tile scrolls upward while cross-fading through five historic dye-bath colourways — indigo, madder, sage, gold, and ink.

canvasmedium complexitymoderate motion

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When to use it

Heritage, craft, or textile-themed hero backgrounds. Ambient loops where slow, contemplative motion suits the brand.

When not to

Contexts requiring legible text overlays — the repeating pattern competes visually with content.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change tileSize to 180, add a sixth colourway with stem:'#7b3f6e' (Victorian plum), and slow scroll speed from dt*6 to dt*3. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.

Safe to edit

  • tileSize (120) — scale the whole pattern
  • colourways array — edit or add palette objects
  • hold duration (2.6 s) — time on each colourway
  • blend speed (dt*1.2) — cross-fade rate
  • scroll speed (dt*6) — upward drift
  • INK constant (#23301f) — outline colour
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (static draw)
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • DPR-aware fitCanvas with setTransform
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • buildTile is called every frame — cache the tile canvas when blend===1 for better perf on low-end devices
  • Ground colour lives in the colourway object, not CSS — cannot be overridden by parent page styles alone

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  • Bird & Berry RepeatA tiled canvas repeating stylized birds and berry sprigs in Arts-and-Crafts palette; the colourway breathes slowly across three indigo-madder-olive schemes.
  • Growing VineRecursive vine grows upward from bottom center, branching symmetrically with olive leaves and madder flowers at tips, then fades and regrows on deep indigo.
  • The Acanthus ScrollTwo rows of Arts-and-Crafts acanthus leaf motifs scroll continuously on a cream ground; a gold pen traces the path as if self-drawing.
  • The TrellisDiamond lattice of olive laths with madder roses and leaves at each joint; blooms open in a staggered wave across the trellis then repeat every 6 seconds.
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