Twill Pattern

Seamless Tartan

As of: October 18, 2026

Twill

This webpage uses the preserved 8 × 8-pixel Twill pattern as its repeating background tile. William Mortensen Vaughan remembers this pattern as Twill.bmp. It is shown here in its original black-and-white form.

Download the original 8 × 8 BMP pattern

Illustration for Re-Creation

The illustration below enlarges the original 8 × 8 pattern so a human can recreate it cell by cell. Each numbered square represents one original pixel.

Enlarged 8 by 8 illustration showing how to recreate the Twill pattern pixel by pixel

Download the demonstration illustration (GIF)

Detail	Value
Tile file	`tile-pattern-Twill.bmp`
Native dimensions	8 × 8 pixels
Colors	Black (`#000000`) and white (`#FFFFFF`)
Status	Preserved copy from a user-supplied pattern remembered as Twill.bmp
Use	Historical Windows-style pattern tile and foundation for later tartan experiments