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FREE AI Pattern Generators for Designing Lampshade Fabric

Making your own lampshade is an excellent way to elevate a bespoke interiors project, yet thanks to AI pattern and image generators even complete beginners can create unique fabrics that bring that extra personal touch.


In this blog post, we explore and road test four free AI pattern generators to find out how easy they are to use and the quality of designs they produce, with a view to helping you create your own fabric designs, and make them a reality with our printing services. Time to get started!



Whilst there are many AI pattern and image generators available, we narrowed our list down to feature both independent and larger corporate software programmes. As a growing market, there will be surely more that spring up over the coming months and years, so if you are interested in creating one of a kind fabrics, for lampshades or soft furnishings, now is great time to learn a few basic skills.


Software outline: Canva PatternedAI creates a unique, seamless repeat patterns using prompts or your own images, in high quality resolution for print and web use.

 

Choice of existing images or own images? Choose from the free, ready to use patterns in the PatternedAI Gallery, or import your own images, illustrations or motifs.

 

Free to use? Canva offers 20 free credits, with one credit generating one pattern. After using all 20 you will need to buy a subscription to generate more patterns.

 

Paid subscription: A variety of paid subscription models, that allow image creation for personal and commercial use.


Our Trial

Being already familiar with Canva, we decided to follow the Pretty Party ad Craft video below to the letter to create our own 'coffee break' fabric, by downloading free illustrations from Creative Fabrica. Playing with positioning, scale and background colour was easy and this software is definitely user friendly if you want to develop motifs or images into patterns.


Here's the results from motifs to pattern.


Resources:

Try this beginner friendly video sharing how to create a simple word prompt in Canva Patterned AI to create a branded patterns.

 

Alternatively, learn how to make your own seamless patterns, using an example to create scrap book paper, with Pretty Party and Crafty, as we did above.




Software outline: Patterninja is an easy to use digital pattern making application, that offers access to its free library and the ability to upload your own images. The software helps you create images for web or print materials.

 

Choice of existing images or own images? Both

 

Free to use? Free

 

Paid subscription: Not available  

 


Our Trial

The icons on offer are somewhat limited, but this said the software is a very easy to use for a someone with little design experience, therefore this could be a good way of finding your feet with Ai Pattern Generators.


Resources:

On the home page you can opt for an in house tutorial of the features, or watch the YouTube video below:




Software Outline: Deep Dream Generator is a text based image generator, that using your prompts creates and image, for example “a seamless white and blue floral pattern” or alternatively can use existing images as a starting point for your design.

 

As with any AI the more detailed you are with your request the better, so Deep Dream Generator will also make suggestions on how to describe your patterns when you click on the Magic Wand.

 

Choice of existing images or own images? Both

 

Free to use? Deep Dream Generator provides a free tier for basic usage, allowing users to explore the AI art generation capabilities. 

 

Paid subscription: For more features, higher usage limits, and additional models, Deep Dream Generator offers premium subscription plans. 

 

Our Trial

After initially entering “a seamless white and blue floral pattern” we used the 'Magic Wand' function to enhance the text and the following was generated:

 

"Soft white and blue floral motif, delicate petals, seamless and intricate design, sophisticated elegance, vintage flair, hand-drawn botanical elements, realistic textures, high-resolution for fabric and wallpaper, pastel hues, gentle lighting for depth, Japanese and Art Nouveau fusion, William Morris and Alphonse Mucha inspiration, Art Nouveau style, intricate pattern, detailed botanicals, vintage colour palette, no harsh shadows, suitable for stationery, Pinterest for design references.” 

 

The attached pattern was generated - we think it's pretty good. 


Resources:

The software itself has a useful guide on how to use its features, and there are a many more in depth videos on YouTube that focus on the artistic benefits of the this AI Pattern Generator.





Software outline: Microsoft Copilot is much more than an image generator, yet this software can create images by generating them based on a detailed description you provide using prompts. Copilot itself suggests although it can assemble images into a repeat pattern, they may not be seamless and it suggests using Adobe Illustrator or Canva for creating the perfect pattern.


It’s worth noting that the images you can produce in the free version are limited to 1024 x 1024 pixels.

 


Images to choose from or own images: Only generates images from prompt and cannot work with own images, but you can import your own images that Copilot can reproduce similar versions of.

 

Free to use? Yes, it's free to use for individual users.

 

Paid subscription: Copilot Pro is paid subscription that unlocks advanced features.


Our Trial:

Using Copilot for the first time we signed into Microsoft account and followed the prompt using the description 'tiled pattern of 10 birds flying blue colour palette, digital art style' and this was the result...


CoPilot asked 'What other styles of birds could I use?' and after clicking through, revealed a list of 10 other styles along with useful descriptions. We changed the prompt to 'tiled pattern Scandinavian folk art style bird pattern' and 'tiled pattern of birds flying in a blue colour palette, pop art style' and you can see the results below:


Resources:

As CoPilot is not only and AI Image generator, there are many video tutorials on how to use this software, but our following picks, focus on image generation for beginners:


Generating a similar image


How to generate AI images with Microsoft Copilot




Fabric Printing at Dannells

Not only do we have everything you need to make lampshades, we can also print fabrics for your lampshades too! Our in-house Fabric Printing Service means your designs (created with AI or otherwise!) can made up in five quality fabrics - 100% Natural Cotton, Polytextile, Linen, Velvet and Satin.


These can be printed to suit our standard sized lampshade panels, giving you confidence that your chosen design and fabric choice will work perfectly for your handmade lampshades.


Explore our fabrics in more detail here on our website or read our blog post New Fabrics - Design and Print Your Own Lampshade Fabric.




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Order a FREE sample pack by clicking the button below and check out the quality and feel of the fabrics for yourself.





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