Azulejo and painted tile pattern generator

Square tiles laid edge to edge. Choose a rosette, Delft or encaustic layout, the number of petals and rings and the weight of the line, and export a seamless painted-tile pattern as SVG, PNG or CSS.

Open in the generator How it works

Blue and gold star rosettes and small four-pointed stars on cream tiles with thin gold joints

A wall of small pictures

Painted tile covers walls across the Mediterranean and beyond. In Portugal and Spain it is azulejo, in the Netherlands the blue-and-white Delft tile, and in Britain the encaustic floor, made of tiles inlaid with colored clay. Each tile is a small picture, and laid together the tiles make one large pattern in which new shapes appear at the corners.

Ornamatic draws simple versions of these in the manner of the tradition, and does not copy any single tile.

How the generator builds them

Each tile is a square with a rosette, a star or a ring of leaves painted on it. In the rosette style the tile is turned by a quarter each time it is laid, so four tiles together form a larger flower. The Delft style repeats a single tile, with a star in a circle and a pattern at the corners. In the encaustic style the colors swap on every second tile, as on a chessboard.

The tile edges can be drawn as a thin joint line or left out. The pattern wraps around, so it repeats exactly.