About this file
Shippo (七宝, "seven treasures") is a lattice of overlapping circles: each circle passes through the centres of the four cells around it, so its neighbours cut it into four lens-shaped petals around a curved square. It has been a lucky pattern on Japanese cloth and lacquer for centuries, a picture of harmony and of links that never end. Here the circles are true circles in one even line weight, the petals are filled with a second tone, and a small dot marks every point where four circles meet.
Two repeats: Shippo with hanabishi (七宝に花菱), with a four-petal flower at the heart of every circle, and plain Shippo, with a small dot there instead. Each tile holds 8 circles across and 8 down and repeats with no seam at any size.
Seven colourways: Young Bamboo (若竹, deep green rings and soft green petals on pale bamboo, with golden flowers), Indigo (藍, washi-white rings, mid-indigo petals and vermilion flowers on deep indigo), Vermilion (朱, vermilion on washi white with deep red flowers), Yamabuki Gold (山吹, umber rings on pale gold with vermilion flowers), Sakura (桜, rose on blossom pink), Sumi (墨, charcoal on washi white with vermilion flowers) and Cloud, a modern colourway with luminous blue rings and soft celery petals on cloud white.
Each repeat in each colourway comes as a 2048 px and a 4096 px square PNG tile (sRGB, no transparency), 28 tiles in all. The commercial licence adds an editable SVG tile for each, 14 in all, with the colours set in one style block so you can recolour them in any vector editor.
Also included: origami paper as vector PDFs for A4 and US Letter, fourteen pages each, one per repeat and colourway. Every page holds one 150 mm (5.9 in) square and two 75 mm (2.95 in) squares, printed past the trim line with crop marks to cut on. The squares are full colour edge to edge, so they use plenty of ink; print at 100 % on thin paper.
At 4096 px a tile prints about 35 cm (13.7 in) across at 300 ppi. Use it as digital paper for scrapbooking and cards, for fabric and gift-wrap designs, stationery and packaging, or as a pattern fill and backdrop.
What you download
45 files · 11.9 MB · TXT, PNG, SVG, PDF
Every edition is included. US Letter and A4
- shippo-circles-origami_letter.pdf2.0 MB · US Letter PDF
- shippo-circles-origami_a4.pdf2.0 MB · A4 PDF
- FONT-LICENCE.txt5 KB TXT
- shippo-circles-cloud-2048.png112 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-cloud-4096.png289 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-cloud-tile.svg47 KB commercial licence
- shippo-circles-indigo-2048.png112 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-indigo-4096.png290 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-indigo-tile.svg47 KB commercial licence
- shippo-circles-sakura-2048.png112 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-sakura-4096.png292 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-sakura-tile.svg47 KB commercial licence
- shippo-circles-sumi-2048.png114 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-sumi-4096.png295 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-sumi-tile.svg47 KB commercial licence
- shippo-circles-vermilion-2048.png113 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-vermilion-4096.png292 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-vermilion-tile.svg47 KB commercial licence
- shippo-circles-yamabuki-2048.png114 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-yamabuki-4096.png297 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-yamabuki-tile.svg47 KB commercial licence
- shippo-circles-young-bamboo-2048.png112 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-young-bamboo-4096.png292 KB PNG
- shippo-circles-young-bamboo-tile.svg47 KB commercial licence
- shippo-hanabishi-cloud-2048.png135 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-cloud-4096.png350 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-cloud-tile.svg211 KB commercial licence
- shippo-hanabishi-indigo-2048.png137 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-indigo-4096.png357 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-indigo-tile.svg211 KB commercial licence
- shippo-hanabishi-sakura-2048.png137 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-sakura-4096.png358 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-sakura-tile.svg211 KB commercial licence
- shippo-hanabishi-sumi-2048.png139 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-sumi-4096.png359 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-sumi-tile.svg211 KB commercial licence
- shippo-hanabishi-vermilion-2048.png138 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-vermilion-4096.png358 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-vermilion-tile.svg211 KB commercial licence
- shippo-hanabishi-yamabuki-2048.png139 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-yamabuki-4096.png361 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-yamabuki-tile.svg211 KB commercial licence
- shippo-hanabishi-young-bamboo-2048.png135 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-young-bamboo-4096.png355 KB PNG
- shippo-hanabishi-young-bamboo-tile.svg211 KB commercial licence
Details
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- Patterns
- Type
- Single file
- Topics
- circle patterndigital paperfabric designgift wraphanabishijapanese patternjapanese stationerykimono patternorigami paperpngrepeatscrapbookingseamless patternshipposurface patternsvgwagara
- Licence
- Personal or commercial
What the licence allows
Personal licence
- Use it in projects for yourself, for learning, and in your portfolio.
- Change it and combine it with other work.
- Keep using it forever. The licence does not expire.
- Use it in anything that earns money, including client work and monetised video.
- Use it in a product, a game or an app that is sold or carries ads.
- Resell, redistribute or share the file.
- Put it into a dataset used to train a model.
Commercial licence
- Use it in unlimited commercial projects, including client work.
- Ship it inside products you sell: games, apps, films, print runs, print-on-demand.
- Use it in monetised and sponsored content, and in broadcast.
- Change it, and keep the result. No credit required, though it is always welcome.
- Keep using it forever. The licence does not expire.
- Resell or redistribute the asset as an asset, on its own or in a pack.
- Register it, or anything substantially it, as a logo or trademark.
- Put it into a dataset used to train a model.
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