Arts & Crafts Pattern Repeats
The Kaleido Tile
Eight-fold mirrored Arts-and-Crafts botanical wedge — olive leaves, madder berries, sage stems — rotates slowly against deep indigo, forming a rose-window of pattern.
canvasmedium complexitysubtle motion
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When to use it
Dark-mode hero backgrounds, arts-and-crafts or heritage brand themes, ambient screensaver-style displays.
When not to
Light backgrounds (indigo hardcoded in CSS). Contexts needing text legibility over the canvas.
Working with an AI agent
Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:
Change rotation speed by editing `rot += dt * 0.16` to `rot += dt * 0.04` for a slower spin, and swap `PAL.madder` to `'#b05cc8'` for purple berries. 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
- rotation speed (dt * 0.16)
- palette colors (PAL object)
- radius scale (R * 0.92)
- number of wedge segments (loop limit 8)
- concentric ring count (i <= 4)
- theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)
Keep intact
- IIFE wrapper
- prefers-reduced-motion guard (REDUCED)
- visibilitychange pause/start
- DPR-aware fitCanvas
- theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)
Known limitations
- Background color hardcoded in both CSS and PAL.indigoDeep — must change both to retheme
- No pointer interactivity; purely autonomous rotation
- Static single frame under reduced-motion (no illustrated fallback)
More Arts & Crafts Pattern Repeats components
- The Wallpaper LoomA seamless Arts-and-Crafts botanical tile — olive stems, sage leaves, a madder flower, and indigo berry clusters — scrolls diagonally on a warm cream ground.
- 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 Colour-Way SwitcherArts-and-Crafts ogee botanical tile scrolls upward while cross-fading through five historic dye-bath colourways — indigo, madder, sage, gold, and ink.
- 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.