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• Brenda Ann Designs - Features whimsical packets, books, free pattern, and lessons.
• Busy Bee Crafts - Offers a selection of tole patterns.
• The Calico Goose - Offering tole and decorative packets for beginner, intermediate, and advanced painters.
• Country Blessings - Offers a selection for handpainted crafts in a country primitive style.
• Country Stuff Studio - Selection of packets and wood kits.
• Country Wood Publishing - Offers packets, books, subscription service, and a seminar schedule.
• The Crafty Artist - Selling a variety of craft packets and kits for various skill levels.
• Crafty Traditions - Offers a wide selection of packets, books and videos in themes.
• 4D Byrd - Kits, pattern packets, information on conventions and classes plus links.
• Deanne's Decorative Arts - Packets, books, supplies, brushes and seminar schedule. Also some free items.
• Folk Fancies - Folk and decorative art pattern packets. Each includes step by step instructions. Variety of skill and subject matter. On-line catalogue.
• Free Craft Patternz - Free primitive and country craft patterns with instructions and full size patterns. Designs include snowmen, pumpkins, angels, scarecrow, gingerbread and Santa patterns.
• Friends - Offers a variety of original tole painting and craft patterns.
• Funky Country Chicks - Country craft patterns for wood and stitchery items. Wood kits are available for some items.
• Gould Creations - This site features a catalog of tole painting patterns and kits by Designer Mary Helen Gould.
• Heart Strings Catalog Index - Currently eight pages of adorable patterns to choose from.

Patterns Definition

Noun

patterns

1. Plural form of pattern.

Category: English plurals

Patterns Encyclopedia Article

A pattern, from the French patron, is a theme of recurring events or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of a set. These elements repeat in a predictable manner. It can be a template or model which can be used to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are created have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred, in which case the things are said to exhibit the unique pattern. Pattern matching is the act of checking for the presence of the constituents of a pattern, whereas the detecting for underlying patterns is referred to as pattern recognition. The question of how a pattern emerges is accomplished through the work of the scientific field of pattern formation. Patterns are also related to repeated shapes or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of the series. Some patterns (for example, many visual patterns) may be directly observable, such as simple decorative patterns (stripes, zigzags, and polka-dots). Others can be more complicated, such as the regular tiling of a plane, echos, and balanced binary branching.

The most basic patterns are based on repetition and periodicity. A single template, or cell, is combined with duplicates without change or modification. For example, in aviation, a "holding pattern" is a flight path which can be repeated until the aircraft has been granted clearance for landing.

Pattern recognition is more complex when templates are used to generate variants. For example, in English, sentences often follow the "N-VP" (noun - verb phrase) pattern, but some knowledge of the English language is required to detect the pattern. Computer science, ethology, and psychology are fields which study patterns.

In addition to static patterns, Simple Harmonic Oscillators produce repeated patterns of movement.

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