diff --git a/draftlogs/6622_add.md b/draftlogs/6622_add.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b60684333f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/draftlogs/6622_add.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add pattern to sunburst trace type [[#6622](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/6622)]
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diff --git a/src/components/drawing/index.js b/src/components/drawing/index.js
index b75d6e244c6..93dac647cb3 100644
--- a/src/components/drawing/index.js
+++ b/src/components/drawing/index.js
@@ -755,6 +755,7 @@ drawing.singlePointStyle = function(d, sel, trace, fns, gd, pt) {
             var perPointPattern = d.mcc ||
                 Lib.isArrayOrTypedArray(markerPattern.shape) ||
                 Lib.isArrayOrTypedArray(markerPattern.bgcolor) ||
+                Lib.isArrayOrTypedArray(markerPattern.fgcolor) ||
                 Lib.isArrayOrTypedArray(markerPattern.size) ||
                 Lib.isArrayOrTypedArray(markerPattern.solidity);
 
diff --git a/src/traces/sunburst/attributes.js b/src/traces/sunburst/attributes.js
index a2835e70c25..73a769b8009 100644
--- a/src/traces/sunburst/attributes.js
+++ b/src/traces/sunburst/attributes.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ var domainAttrs = require('../../plots/domain').attributes;
 var pieAttrs = require('../pie/attributes');
 var constants = require('./constants');
 var extendFlat = require('../../lib/extend').extendFlat;
+var pattern = require('../../components/drawing/attributes').pattern;
 
 module.exports = {
     labels: {
@@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ module.exports = {
             width: extendFlat({}, pieAttrs.marker.line.width, {dflt: 1}),
             editType: 'calc'
         },
+        pattern: pattern,
         editType: 'calc'
     },
         colorScaleAttrs('marker', {
diff --git a/src/traces/sunburst/defaults.js b/src/traces/sunburst/defaults.js
index 8f40be23116..330aba75a54 100644
--- a/src/traces/sunburst/defaults.js
+++ b/src/traces/sunburst/defaults.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ var Lib = require('../../lib');
 var attributes = require('./attributes');
 var handleDomainDefaults = require('../../plots/domain').defaults;
 var handleText = require('../bar/defaults').handleText;
+var handleMarkerDefaults = require('../pie/defaults').handleMarkerDefaults;
 
 var Colorscale = require('../../components/colorscale');
 var hasColorscale = Colorscale.hasColorscale;
@@ -32,10 +33,8 @@ module.exports = function supplyDefaults(traceIn, traceOut, defaultColor, layout
     coerce('level');
     coerce('maxdepth');
 
-    var lineWidth = coerce('marker.line.width');
-    if(lineWidth) coerce('marker.line.color', layout.paper_bgcolor);
+    handleMarkerDefaults(traceIn, traceOut, layout, coerce, 'sunburst');
 
-    coerce('marker.colors');
     var withColorscale = traceOut._hasColorscale = (
         hasColorscale(traceIn, 'marker', 'colors') ||
         (traceIn.marker || {}).coloraxis // N.B. special logic to consider "values" colorscales
diff --git a/src/traces/sunburst/plot.js b/src/traces/sunburst/plot.js
index 94ec88392bc..386dc1bf4ce 100644
--- a/src/traces/sunburst/plot.js
+++ b/src/traces/sunburst/plot.js
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ function plotOne(gd, cd, element, transitionOpts) {
                 isTransitioning: gd._transitioning
             });
 
-        slicePath.call(styleOne, pt, trace);
+        slicePath.call(styleOne, pt, trace, gd);
 
         var sliceTextGroup = Lib.ensureSingle(sliceTop, 'g', 'slicetext');
         var sliceText = Lib.ensureSingle(sliceTextGroup, 'text', '', function(s) {
diff --git a/src/traces/sunburst/style.js b/src/traces/sunburst/style.js
index 5b563f63cc0..2e5d73fd67c 100644
--- a/src/traces/sunburst/style.js
+++ b/src/traces/sunburst/style.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ var d3 = require('@plotly/d3');
 var Color = require('../../components/color');
 var Lib = require('../../lib');
 var resizeText = require('../bar/uniform_text').resizeText;
+var Drawing = require('../../components/drawing');
 
 function style(gd) {
     var s = gd._fullLayout._sunburstlayer.selectAll('.trace');
@@ -17,20 +18,34 @@ function style(gd) {
         gTrace.style('opacity', trace.opacity);
 
         gTrace.selectAll('path.surface').each(function(pt) {
-            d3.select(this).call(styleOne, pt, trace);
+            d3.select(this).call(styleOne, pt, trace, gd);
         });
     });
 }
 
-function styleOne(s, pt, trace) {
+function styleOne(s, pt, trace, gd) {
     var cdi = pt.data.data;
     var isLeaf = !pt.children;
     var ptNumber = cdi.i;
     var lineColor = Lib.castOption(trace, ptNumber, 'marker.line.color') || Color.defaultLine;
     var lineWidth = Lib.castOption(trace, ptNumber, 'marker.line.width') || 0;
 
+    if(gd && ptNumber >= 0) {
+        pt.i = cdi.i;
+
+        var marker = trace.marker;
+        if(marker.pattern) {
+            if(!marker.colors || !marker.pattern.shape) marker.color = cdi.color;
+        } else {
+            marker.color = cdi.color;
+        }
+
+        Drawing.pointStyle(s, trace, gd, pt);
+    } else {
+        Color.fill(s, cdi.color);
+    }
+
     s.style('stroke-width', lineWidth)
-        .call(Color.fill, cdi.color)
         .call(Color.stroke, lineColor)
         .style('opacity', isLeaf ? trace.leaf.opacity : null);
 }
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/zz-sunburst_pattern.png b/test/image/baselines/zz-sunburst_pattern.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..82af2d8741b
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diff --git a/test/image/mocks/zz-sunburst_pattern.json b/test/image/mocks/zz-sunburst_pattern.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..98bb77a3e4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image/mocks/zz-sunburst_pattern.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{
+  "data": [
+    {
+      "type": "sunburst",
+      "textinfo": "label",
+      "labels": ["Cain", "Seth", "Enos", "Noam", "Abel", "Awan", "Enoch", "Azura"],
+      "parents": ["Eve", "Eve", "Seth", "Seth", "Eve", "Eve", "Awan", "Eve" ],
+      "domain": {"x": [0, 0.5]},
+      "marker": {
+        "colors": [ "orange", "steelblue", "steelblue", "steelblue", "green", "red", "red", "purple"]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "sunburst",
+      "textinfo": "none",
+      "labels": ["Cain", "Seth", "Enos", "Noam", "Abel", "Awan", "Enoch", "Azura"],
+      "parents": ["Eve", "Eve", "Seth", "Seth", "Eve", "Eve", "Awan", "Eve" ],
+      "domain": {"x": [0.5, 1]},
+      "marker": {
+        "colors": [ "orange", "steelblue", "lightgrey", "lightgrey", "green", "red", "lightgrey", "purple"],
+        "pattern": {
+          "shape": ".",
+          "size": 4
+        },
+        "line": {
+          "color": "lightgrey"
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "layout": {
+    "title": { "text": "sunburst with pattern"},
+    "width": 800,
+    "height": 400
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/plot-schema.json b/test/plot-schema.json
index eedddcbeee5..23ea31a4b1c 100644
--- a/test/plot-schema.json
+++ b/test/plot-schema.json
@@ -67493,6 +67493,99 @@
        "valType": "string"
       }
      },
+     "pattern": {
+      "bgcolor": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "When there is no colorscale sets the color of background pattern fill. Defaults to a `marker.color` background when `fillmode` is *overlay*. Otherwise, defaults to a transparent background.",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "color"
+      },
+      "bgcolorsrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `bgcolor`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "description": "Sets the pattern within the marker.",
+      "editType": "style",
+      "fgcolor": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "When there is no colorscale sets the color of foreground pattern fill. Defaults to a `marker.color` background when `fillmode` is *replace*. Otherwise, defaults to dark grey or white to increase contrast with the `bgcolor`.",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "color"
+      },
+      "fgcolorsrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `fgcolor`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "fgopacity": {
+       "description": "Sets the opacity of the foreground pattern fill. Defaults to a 0.5 when `fillmode` is *overlay*. Otherwise, defaults to 1.",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "max": 1,
+       "min": 0,
+       "valType": "number"
+      },
+      "fillmode": {
+       "description": "Determines whether `marker.color` should be used as a default to `bgcolor` or a `fgcolor`.",
+       "dflt": "replace",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "enumerated",
+       "values": [
+        "replace",
+        "overlay"
+       ]
+      },
+      "role": "object",
+      "shape": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "Sets the shape of the pattern fill. By default, no pattern is used for filling the area.",
+       "dflt": "",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "enumerated",
+       "values": [
+        "",
+        "/",
+        "\\",
+        "x",
+        "-",
+        "|",
+        "+",
+        "."
+       ]
+      },
+      "shapesrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `shape`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "size": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "Sets the size of unit squares of the pattern fill in pixels, which corresponds to the interval of repetition of the pattern.",
+       "dflt": 8,
+       "editType": "style",
+       "min": 0,
+       "valType": "number"
+      },
+      "sizesrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `size`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "solidity": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "Sets the solidity of the pattern fill. Solidity is roughly the fraction of the area filled by the pattern. Solidity of 0 shows only the background color without pattern and solidty of 1 shows only the foreground color without pattern.",
+       "dflt": 0.3,
+       "editType": "style",
+       "max": 1,
+       "min": 0,
+       "valType": "number"
+      },
+      "soliditysrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `solidity`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      }
+     },
      "reversescale": {
       "description": "Reverses the color mapping if true. Has an effect only if colors is set to a numerical array. If true, `marker.cmin` will correspond to the last color in the array and `marker.cmax` will correspond to the first color.",
       "dflt": false,