Colorize swatch textures in live paint

I'm in live paint mode, and want to fill some shapes with some of textures from the "basic graphic textures" library, though the textures are in black and white - so I want to be able to apply a background color to the textured fill, and colorize the textures as well. How do I do that?
thanks,
susan

Hi Kurt,
Thanks for your reply,
I have now checked the clipping paths and that does seem to be the reason why the live paint wont work, is there a way around this?
Also the pattern is a seamless repeat, itas just on a 1/4 drop (imagine 2 of those squares side by side and drop it down a 1/4)
Dan

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