22 designs · ready to copy
Twenty-two finished banners, each one a real stack of vanilla patterns with the /give command
underneath. Copy one as it is, or open it in the editor and change the colours until it belongs to your
build.
A banner is a 20 × 40 pixel cloth and the game only gives you 42 patterns to colour it with, so the designs that survive a build are the ones that use three or four layers well rather than six layers badly. Everything on this page fits inside that budget — the heaviest design is four layers — which means each one can be rebuilt at a loom in survival, not just spawned in with a command.
Each card shows the number of layers, the base colour and the pattern names, in the order the game applies them. Open in editor loads the design into the banner maker; Share link opens the read-only page so you can send the exact design to another player instead of describing it out loud.
Flags are the reason most people open a banner editor at all. The pattern set is short, so the trick is restraint: two or three layers, one accent colour, and a border only when the cloth sits next to busy blocks.
The cleanest flag on the site: a red saltire on white with a blue frame holding it in. Two layers, so it is also the fastest design to rebuild at a loom.
/give @s white_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:cross,color:red},{pattern:border,color:blue}]]
A gold rhombus on purple reads as a crown from a distance. Swap the accent to white for a colder, more formal hall banner.
/give @s purple_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:rhombus,color:yellow},{pattern:border,color:magenta}]]
Three horizontal bands are the whole trick. Because the game has no vertical stripe pattern, every national-style flag has to be built sideways.
/give @s white_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:stripe_top,color:red},{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:blue},{pattern:stripe_center,color:yellow}]]Faces carry further than any abstract shape. Give a face a plain field, put one stripe under it for weight, and resist the urge to add a second symbol — two icons on a 20 × 40 cloth read as mud.
One layer, one face. Green plus a black creeper is the single most recognisable banner in the game and the best first project if you are learning the loom.
/give @s green_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:creeper,color:black}]]
A grey crosshair behind a white skull. The grey layer keeps the skull from floating, which is the usual mistake when a face sits on a plain field.
/give @s black_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:straight_cross,color:gray},{pattern:skull,color:white}]]
Piglin in black on red, grounded by a brown stripe. Use it over a bastion door or as a raid marker on a nether highway.
/give @s red_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:piglin,color:black},{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:brown}]]Guild halls, taverns and towers all want a mark that looks inherited rather than designed. Curly borders, gradients and a single centred symbol do more work here than a busy stack of stripes.
Curly border plus a pale diamond: reads as a trade guild without needing a custom texture. The curls are the tell that someone spent more than one pattern on it.
/give @s blue_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:curly_border,color:yellow},{pattern:rhombus,color:light_blue}]]
A brown field with a cream band and a white ring — the closest the pattern set gets to a painted inn sign. Hang it above a door with a chest shop behind it.
/give @s brown_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:stripe_center,color:yellow},{pattern:circle,color:white}]]
Gradient fades the cloth towards the bottom, which makes a tower look taller. The white circle on top is the enchantment room marker.
/give @s purple_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:gradient,color:blue},{pattern:circle,color:white}]]
Bricks in black over green gives an offset scale texture, and a lime stripe on top suggests a ridge. Cheap to build, and it tiles well across a whole wall.
/give @s green_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:bricks,color:black},{pattern:stripe_top,color:lime}]]Sky, horizon, ground: three bands and you have a place. Landscapes are the easiest designs to repeat across a row of buildings because they read as a set rather than as six different logos.
The bottom stripe is the horizon and the red triangle is the sun going down behind it. Three layers total, so it works as a set of six across a beach house.
/give @s yellow_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:orange},{pattern:triangle_bottom,color:red}]]
A lime ring behind a yellow flower. The ring is doing the work — without it the flower disappears into the magenta.
/give @s magenta_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:circle,color:lime},{pattern:flower,color:yellow}]]
Flow draws the wavy bands, Globe puts the world in the middle. Use it on a dock or a lighthouse and the banner still reads at forty blocks.
/give @s cyan_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:flow,color:light_blue},{pattern:globe,color:white}]]
A yellow sky, an orange field and a brown furrow along the hem. Three flat bands and the whole thing reads at a glance, which is why horizon banners show up over half the farms on any server.
/give @s yellow_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:half_horizontal_bottom,color:orange},{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:brown}]]Utility banners get seen every day, so they should be legible before they are pretty. A band for the roof, a block for the door, a colour that survives a night-time screenshot — that is the whole brief.
A grey crate face: outer frame plus a cross, which is the universal sign for "this chest room is sorted". Neutral enough to hang four of them in a row.
/give @s light_gray_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:border,color:gray},{pattern:straight_cross,color:gray}]]
The grey triangle is the shaft mouth and the brown stripe is the spoil heap. Put one either side of a tunnel and visitors stop walking past it.
/give @s black_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:triangle_top,color:gray},{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:brown}]]
Guster swirls like portal energy, and the black border keeps the magenta from bleeding into the obsidian around it.
/give @s purple_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:guster,color:magenta},{pattern:border,color:black}]]
Orange flame over a yellow ember line. Two layers, no commands needed — this is the one to teach a new player at a loom.
/give @s brown_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:triangle_bottom,color:orange},{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:yellow}]]Team banners want symmetry and a colour you can shout. Swap the base dye and the same three layers turn a blue pennant into a red one, which is how a minigame arena gets eight teams out of one design.
White bands top and bottom frame a red diamond. Change the base to any of the sixteen dyes and you have a team kit in one click.
/give @s blue_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:stripe_top,color:white},{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:white},{pattern:rhombus,color:red}]]
A red glow fading up out of black, with brick courses on top. The closest you get to a lit furnace wall without a texture pack.
/give @s black_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:gradient_up,color:red},{pattern:bricks,color:brown}]]
A white cross on lime, capped with a green roof stripe. Reads like a pitch from above, which is exactly what you want above a minigame arena.
/give @s lime_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:straight_cross,color:white},{pattern:stripe_top,color:green}]]
Four corner squares and you have a racing flag. It is the only design here that uses all four corner patterns, so it doubles as a test of your loom stock — and a good base for a team crest.
/give @s white_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:square_top_left,color:black},{pattern:square_top_right,color:black},{pattern:square_bottom_left,color:black},{pattern:square_bottom_right,color:black}]]Every idea here is a starting point, not a finished product. Three changes cover most remixes.
The base is the cloth, and it does most of the work. Change a green creeper banner to black and the same one pattern turns into a warning sign. Sixteen dyes, sixteen moods, no extra layers.
Order decides what stays visible. A border added last frames the design; a border added first gets buried. If a design looks muddy, move the busiest pattern down one step before you delete it.
Six is the in-game limit, and the editor refuses a seventh. It is also a design limit: past four layers most banners turn into texture rather than a symbol, and the ones that still read are usually two colours at most.
Need a word instead of a symbol? Banner letters has the full A–Z alphabet. Want the raw shapes? Banner patterns documents all 42 with their own commands. And if the design is for your back rather than your wall, the cape maker shows the same artwork on a cape silhouette.