DancheongStudioKorean traditional pattern vectors · Seoul
Dancheong, lotus and taegeuk — Korea's pattern heritage as clean, editable vectors
Motifs redrawn from the national pattern archive and the painted ornament of Changdeokgung Palace, delivered as SVG, AI, PDF and transparent PNG with seamless tiles and four colourways. Licensed for unlimited commercial work.
The bundles
Four volumes of Korean pattern SVGs
Each volume is a themed library: every motif in original colours plus indigo, terracotta, jade-and-gold and grayscale recolourings, and seven to nine motifs built out into 2000×2000 px seamless tiles.
The first DancheongStudio bundle: lotus and flower motifs from temple ceilings and roof-end tiles, taegeuk and knot geometry, and painted dancheong components traced from Changdeokgung Palace — Juhamnu, Eosumun, Yeonghwadang and Jinseonmun.
Dragons, phoenixes, cranes, carp, butterflies and bats from Korea's national pattern archive, together with the stylised auspicious characters — 壽 longevity, 福 fortune, 囍 double joy — that decorated Joseon bedding, wrapping cloths and rice-cake stamps.
The largest floral set in the collection: peonies from Joseon screens and fans, chrysanthemum roof-end tiles, lotus roundels, flower medallions and lattice, plus the geometric vocabulary that frames them — tortoise-shell hexagons, circle lattice, vine scrolls, diamond rosettes and longevity medallions.
Forty cloud motifs — roundels, scrolls, drifting puffs, medallions and border bands — drawn from temple ceilings, palace beams and roof tiles, joined by sun discs, mountain-and-wave landscape motifs, a taegeuk roundel, flying cranes and a cloud-and-phoenix band.
Pattern playground
Hover a tile to see it repeat
Six of the 33 seamless tiles, shown as the single 2000 px unit. Hover — or tap — and the same file repeats 3×3 with no visible seam. Every tile ships as SVG, AI, PDF and PNG in original colours plus three recolourings.
Small sets & papers
Single-theme sets from $3, digital papers and clipart
Mini vector sets pull one theme from a bundle — lotus, taegeuk, dragon and phoenix, auspicious characters — for a few dollars. Digital papers are 12×12 in print-ready JPGs; the clipart pack is 115 transparent PNGs for Canva and Procreate.
Free sample
Six motifs and a seamless tile, free
SVG · AI · PDF · PNG — one motif from each volume, same license as the paid packs. Delivered by Gumroad; leave your email there to hear when a new volume ships.
Background
What is dancheong?
Dancheong — literally "red and blue" — is the painted decoration on the wooden beams, brackets and eaves of Korean palaces and temples.
It began as a coat of mineral pigment that protected timber from weather and insects, and grew into a codified art of five colours and hundreds of motifs: lotus heads at beam ends, scroll clouds along the brackets, taegeuk discs on gates, brocade-like fills on every surface. Our Vol.01 dancheong vectors were traced from the Korea Heritage Service's published drawings of Changdeokgung Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Seoul.
Motif glossary
What the patterns mean
Twelve themes, catalogued: what the lotus, crane, tortoise shell or 壽 character meant to the people who painted them, and which vectors carry them.
Questions
Frequently asked
- What file formats are included?
- SVG, AI (PDF-compatible, opens in Illustrator CS6 and later), PDF and transparent PNG at 2000 px for every motif; seamless tiles add 3×3 repeat previews and three recoloured tiles. No fonts, no embedded rasters — all paths are editable.
- Can I use the patterns commercially?
- Yes — unlimited personal and commercial projects, including print-on-demand, packaging, apps and client work. You may not resell or redistribute the files themselves, or register a motif as a trademark. Full license.
- Where do the motifs come from?
- Public heritage works from the Korea Heritage Service and the Culture Portal (KCISA), released under KOGL Type 1. We redraw, clean and recolour them; the required attribution is included in every download.
- Where can I buy?
- On Etsy (instant download, Etsy payment methods) or Gumroad (card or PayPal). Same files, same license.