Abstract: Traditional fabric patterns generally contain certain basic elements which are characteristically distributed.However, the existing pattern generation methods based on characteristics and examples preserve neither the integrity of elements and structures in pattern, nor the information of styles and levels, such as distribution characteristics.Thus, taking Xinjiang carpet design as an example, an auto-generating method of patterns based on topological structure is presented.By interactively identifying patterns with different perception layers to serve as templates and extracting elements of the same class accurately by template-matching algorithm, pattern topological structure is generated.Then, appropriate patterns are extracted after the design of selection rules.Finally, the matrix mark method is used to embed the pattern.The experimental results show that the method not only solves the overlapping problem of pattern elements, but also generates beautifully-layered patterns that can express the composition, element image and color of the fabric prints, which can meet the design requirements of style inheritance.