Folds and patterns are understood as two approaches to image design that reach back behind representation. They behave contrary to each other yet come together in a productive way in various fold-patterns. The material intersection point of this interplay is the textile, for example as a depicted motif where patterns and folds create visual interferences, or as an intertwining of representation and image structure in the form of a texture. The contributions encompass a wide range of themes, from early medieval depictions of cloth knots to textile image spaces of the late Middle Ages and Modernism, culminating in the transformation of the image carrier into a fold-pattern in contemporary art.