Pattern Play
GETTING STARTED
Our patterns have been designed to enjoy each others company! So we have looked at each one and made sure it has friends in the collection. They can hangout together.
To get you started and see how patterns play together we have put schemes for each pattern. These show how you can play with the print, picking up hues and shapes within each pattern and creating a visual flow through to other designs. There are different pallettes and patterns for each print so that you can take each one in several design directions.
Textures
ORGANICS
There are small organic prints like trees & hills that feel fairly solid and quietly pull schemes together.
STRIPES
The stripes ‘ziggy’ and ‘chevron’ are great to compliment lush organic patterns and florals.
GEOMETRICS
Teepee and Greek Key are classic geometrics whose angular lines play with all our looser patterns from ikats to florals and organics.
TIPS FOR MIXING PATTERNS
Feeling nervous? Start with 3 tonal patterns. Layer in accent colours using other objects in the room vases/lamps/art/house plants. Then your printed patterns flow over similar colours and variety is added with accessories which are easy to change and shift colour stories with.
We often front and back our cushions in different patterns and add a contrast pattern pipe or trim: it brings three patterns together you can then work these across a room, building up from this. Sometimes we get carried away!
SCALE - MIX THEM UP
Scale is a game changer, if all your patterns are the same size they are all shouting equally loudly for attention! You want different scales for you patterned scheme: large to small, or medium to tiny (like or hills and trees).
Got the hang of it? Take 5 prints or more and remember scale, pattern type (stripe/organic etc) and colour flow.
...AND FINALLY
Remember your base cloth, these influence the way colour and pattern read, adding a textural note and subtly changing the way colour prints. So make sure your samples always link to your final base cloth fabric order!
Consider the whole room: we looked carefully at lovely paint companies and how our colours worked in their schemes so get your paint charts out and play with Parker and Jules. We would love to see what you create? Will you hashtag us at #ParkerandJules #patternplay