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Zebra print pattern: classic, fine, bold in three colourways

Zebra print — Bands a millimetre or two wide tapering and forking as they run, black on white, dense enough that the surface reads as a fine vibrating texture rather than as separate stripes., zebra repeat, bands that swell at the middle and taper to sharp points, several forking and rejoining, never parallel for long, edges softened by short hair, true coat colouring with a short-hair edge

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Reading 1Ditsy
Reading 2Medium
Reading 3Large

Zebra is stripes that behave like an animal: bands that widen at the flank, taper to points, fork and rejoin. These nine keep that taper in a classic black-and-white stripe, a fine narrow stripe and a bold wide stripe. Ask for a different stripe colour and the same tapering, forking grammar carries it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each stripe field is a seamless all-over repeat at A3 proportions, printing clean at A4 or scaling to fabric yardage.
Can I get a different stripe colour?
Yes — name any colour combination, and the same tapering, forking stripe structure renders it.
What's the difference between the three widths?
Classic keeps a mid stripe width in traditional black and white; fine narrows the stripes for a denser field; bold widens them for a stronger, more graphic pattern.
Why do the stripes taper and fork instead of running straight?
Even, parallel stripes read as a deckchair rather than an animal — the taper at the flank and the fork points are what make a zebra pattern recognisable as zebra.

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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.