I use to paint yardage by systematically repeating a mark with one color, one tool, by hand, all over the fabric. Then another mark, another color and tool, and so on until the fabric was completed.
It use to fascinate me how now matter how irregular I tried to be, once I was in the flow I always produced perfectly regular repeat patterns. What it is about repeats that seems to be deeply ingrained in the human mind? Or is it only in mine?

I like how you expand the notion of repeat to refer to a variety of forms of repetition in this post. The interaction between the figures in the foreground and the repeat in the frame or the background suggests to me a way I could’ve escaped the dominance of repeat pattern back in my time of painting yardage. Interesting how most of your examples are either folk art or are close to folk roots.