Textile patterns, woven in Europe, are a consequence of an old cultural diffusion. Patterns travelled not only from one-purpose textile to another. Similar motifs were made in different techniques in folk, as in professional, art . Extremely wide correlations may be found in prehistoric art. Ethnologists and culturologists explore how similar motifs of geometrical patterns appear in the art of various cultures.

Textiles, decorated with patterns of circles, ellipses, squares and other figures have long existed in Europe. According to Helmuth T. Bossert, such geometrical patterns were known in Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein, in the 17th century, especially on printed fabrics.* Later, in the 18th century, two-warp textiles were decorated with similar patterns.* Fabrics of two-warp systems, decorated with such geometrical patterns, were also found in East Lithuania in the later 20th century.* Maybe their patterns are the consequence of cultural innovations known in Europe? Besides, it is thought that some patterns spread not only through fabrics but also through master weavers and their traveling apprentices.*

Very similar textile motifs, carried out in different ways, are found in Scandinavia, Iceland, Spain, Italy and Germany. Gertruda Monsenthin asserted, basing her opinion on fabric examples from Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, that similar patterns spread in the same way as weaving pattern examples, found in all of North Europe.* We can add that patterns of analogous forms existed in Lithuania, too; though there has been no research made on how many of them were taken from books. The pride of Lithuanian weavers, according to various sources, was their hand-woven fabrics, their beauty, and creation of patterns, their original interpretation and perception.