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Breton stripe design: navy, red, black on white

Breton stripes — The Breton ratio shrunk to a jersey rib — white bands two millimetres and navy one — running horizontally, the edges very slightly soft as knitted yarn, the count even across the whole frame., breton repeat, horizontal bands at a two-to-one ratio pale to dark, edges softened by the knit rather than printed, the yarn direction visible in every band, fine jersey knit with a soft stripe edge

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Reading 1Ditsy
Reading 2Medium
Reading 3Large

The Breton is a fixed recipe: twenty-one white bands and twenty of a second colour on a jersey knit, the white always twice the width — worn by fishermen, then everyone. These nine render the recipe in navy, red and black against white, in a soft knitted-edge finish. Ask for a different accent colour, and the same fixed ratio carries it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size and format do these print at?
Each pattern is a seamless square tile at even resolution, so it repeats cleanly on jersey knit fabric or a wallpaper roll.
Can I get a different accent colour instead of navy?
Yes — the direction field takes any accent colour against white, and the fixed 21-to-20 ratio still carries it.
What's the difference between the three colourways?
All three keep the same white-doubled band ratio; only the accent colour changes — navy, red or black — while the knitted-edge softness stays consistent.
Is this the real Breton stripe ratio, or an approximation?
It follows the traditionally cited fisherman's-jersey ratio of twenty-one white bands to twenty of the accent colour as a style reference, not a licensed reproduction of any specific brand's garment.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.