The Top Six Surface Pattern Design Selling Platforms:

1 – The Surface Pattern Marketplace

The Surface Pattern Marketplace is an online surface pattern design platform originally created in 2018 for emerging design talent to upload their unseen first collections, exhibit, and showcase them to new clients around the world. In 2020, the surface pattern marketplace changed over to a members-only exclusive design platform for genuine designers that really want to have a hands-on approach in the daily running of their store within the marketplace, and upload print designs to license on a regular basis.

So far changing over to a members-only marketplace has proved itself, and the marketplace is going from strength to strength.

Membership starts from a Free account where you get only 20% commission and can only upload 5 prints. A Bronze Account where you can get 50% commission and upload 50 prints. or a Gold Account where you can receive 65% commission and upload unlimited prints.

Ethnic Print Floral Border Akwi Design

2 – Patternbank

Patternbank was founded in 2012 by a couple of Textile savvy friends in England. The site is very large with over 100,000 prints for license and sale.

They aim to connect their freelance designers with buyers around the world, promoting designs for the fashion, homeware, stationery, and gifts markets.

This Business to Business platform offers a service, where customers can discover unique print designs, plus they offer trend inspiration in the form of E-Books to instantly purchase, and download to help you design to future trends.

Textile Print Border Design By The Burrows Twins

3- Pattern Designs

Pattern Designs is an online selling platform for licensing surface pattern and textile designs based in Austria.

Pattern Design was founded in 2010 bringing surface pattern and textile designers together with manufacturers and brands via their platform specialising in repeat seamless patterns. They love to help designers license their designs around the world and they are confident in supplying to product demand by commercial companies for vector patterns.

4 – Cyme

Cyme is a textile design marketplace, based in Paris offering 1000’s textile designs for license for the fashion and home furnishing and design industry.

Cymé offers a great platform for both companies and designers. They have seen how difficult it is for new designers to find clients, and for companies to find unique prints that are adaptable for their future projects.

Commission: 60%

Free to join

Surface Pattern Print by Trace of Colour

5 – Picky Pattern

Print design platform based in Seoul Korea, offering textile print designs created by the world’s leading designers.

They strive to be one of the largest online platforms in the textile industry and all designs have been created with current trends in mind.

Commision: 60%

Free to join

Lily Pond by Manuela Crotti

6 – Weave Up Digital On-Demand Print Design Platform

Weave Up is an online digital print-on-demand platform that is based in Durham North Carolina the USA

But it is also a textile design platform that connects Independent textile or surface pattern designers with retail companies and manufacturers around the globe.

Weave Up is a worldwide marketplace where designers and artists can sell or license their designs.

Commission:

Free to Join