Endless Patterns

Truchet tiles: Straight chamfers

Turn one simple tile on a grid to make a seamless pattern. Pick a tile, a layout and your colors, then download the repeat or print it.

Straight chamfers

Tiles
Arrangement
Colors

Tiles turned one way use the line color, and tiles turned the other way use the accent. Set both to the same color for a single color.

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Printing

Sources

  • Sébastien Truchet, Mémoire sur les combinaisons, Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, 1704. The tiles in the Truchet maker carry his name, from his study of how a split square combines.
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