The analysis of textile patterns has shown that Lithuanians have created fewer original textile patterns than names. This means that the authenticity of patterns is not only their decoration but also the fabric's interpretation and its value in society. How did characteristics of the Lithuanian ethnic identity develop in folk textiles?

Things that have a symbolic meaning, customs connected with weaving and weavings, textile patterns, emphasizing nationality, function in ethnic culture in the flow of history. Joan Evans thought that a pattern is a mirror of a human being's life. Influences from the east and the west were felt at different times, and creators transformed them, referring to the nation's taste, or inspired by direct observation.* Ideas of nationality, the authenticity of ethnic creation, spring up in times of a nation's oppression or prosperity. An event, significant to a nation, shows its cultural identity.

Different names of equivalent patterns exist in weaving pattern books by Lithuanian authors, in field research material, and in the European publications mentioned. The same pattern elements are interpreted originally in Lithuania. Their new names show the intellect of people. Motifs that are an old consequence of the diffusion of textile patterns in European art have their own functional and symbolic meanings for Lithuanians. Structures of national culture are the creation of people, and also originally adopted experience.