Songbird12

Thank you so much!!

Sorry, I think I’ve got this wrong. I was thinking that what was needed was an easy way to display the swatches so that clients can see/choose the available patterns for fabrics. My wife does surface pattern design and uses these sorts of grids for that purpose. However, it sounds as though what is actually needed is an easy way to select and use multiple swatches within another design. If that is the case, as you said the best way is to use styles and I don’t think there’s a quick/automated way to convert a folder of swatches to a “palette” of styles. Apologies for wasting peoples time, but I really got the wrong end of the stick!

@PaulEC  We are “great minds on the same path.”  @Songbird12 will have to create these swatches as Styles, if the purpose, as stated, is “to color other boxes, triangles, etc.”  with the patterned images posted here.  And no, there is no way to create multiple swatches (or Styles) at one go by clicking on a folder containing a bunch of images.  I tried it.  Not possible.
Hopefully, once Songbird12 makes a few Styles, the procedure won’t seem so onerous.  

I do have Publisher. I just want to be able to use each swatch to color other boxes, triangles, etc. (like a palette. I guess I'll give it a try to see if I can use it to color my quilts! Thanks to both of you for your assistance.

Is this what you want? If so, it's easy to do in APublisher, by making lots picture frames and dragging and dropping the swatches into them. Then just export the a selection of all the "boxes". (Not much help if you don't have Publisher, I'm afraid!)

Welcome to the Forums!  If your fabric swatches are each a solid color then you can add them to a palette, by first taking a picture of each, transfering it to your computer, then clicking on the Swatches Panel hamburger menu, and choosing Create Palette From Image.  This will permit you to place your image, choose the number of colors, and then click Create.  If you want that swatch/palette to be available for every document you create, choose Application in the next panel that shows the colors (5 are the minimum).  

If your fabric swatches contain prints/stripes/etc. you will be far better off to create your swatches as Styles.  In this case, take your picture, then place it in a Photo/Designer/Publisher new document, Export it as a PNG file>Selection Only, then delete the image from your document.  Now drag a rectangle shape onto your canvas (no need to color it) then select your Gradient tool and on the Context Toolbar in the Type box, choose Bitmap.  Locate your saved PNG file, select that; your swatch image will fill the rectangle.  With that layer highlighted, go to the Styles Panel (if you don't have that on your desktop, go up to WINDOW on your Menu bar and be sure that Styles has a checkmark beside it).  Click on the Styles Panel little hamburger icon, and choose Add New Category.  Give it a name, then with that blank category now showing in your Styles panel, and the layer still highlighted, choose Add Style From Selection.  You will now find a little colored icon in that category.
 I have attached a video to show how this is done.  Please wait to see the new style icon appear.  The video appears to stop, but the little coloured "beachball" was actually going and it took a bit of time for the new style to appear.   Probably because I didn't bother to create a new category and just let the style go into the v.1.6 default category.

Your fabric swatch can now be used on any shape, or text. Just select the text or shape with the Move Tool and click on the little Styles icon in your category and it will automatically fill your selection.
I hope this helps!
 

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Songbird12,
Welcome to the Serif affinity forums  
Does this work for you?
all pages on one spread have the same orientation.

I would be happy to add hyperlinks (URL) in Affinity Designer, too!