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Brackets or a bold line marking the part that repeats.
Also known as: Pattern repeat marking, Repeat box
A repeat marking shows the section of a chart worked over and over across a row. Stitches outside the repeat are edge stitches worked once, and misreading which is which puts the whole row out by a few stitches.
Marks the section of a chart worked repeatedly across a row, with the stitches outside it worked once as edges.
Contexts: Laundry
Is the commonest place a chart goes wrong, since counting the edge stitches into the repeat throws out the whole row.
Contexts: Laundry
A heavier vertical line on each side of part of the grid, or a bracket printed beneath it.