How to move objects from a clipping mask around artboard while retaining mask coloring?

[Lisa Di Paola]

I have a gradient in layer 1 (bottom) and a geometric pattern in layer 2.  The geometric pattern is a compound path, which I then used to make a clipping mask.  So far, everything is as I'd like it to be.

What I'd now like to do is rearrange my individual geometric pieces, while retaining the current gradient within it.  I can move the geometric pieces in isolation mode, but that just moves them along the gradient, it doesn't take the gradient with it.

Here's a simplistic example - lower layer is stripes, top layer is triangles.  I'd like to be able to swap the triangles around, rotate them, and have them retain the stripes that you currently see within each.

Is this possible?  

[Monika Gause]

In your example it's not a gradient, but stripes. When doing this with a clipping mask, you would need to make each single path a mask for itself.

But if this were a real linear gradient, there would be a way. So: is it a gradient or not?

[Ares Hovhannesyan]

You can use uniform gradient I think. Here is how to creat uniform gradient 

[Myra Ferguson]

Ares is right. You can duplicate your triangles, select them all, and using the Gradient Tool, drag across all the triangles to apply the stripes across all the triangles (I'm assuming the gradient has the color stops close to each other to make the stripes). Then you should be able to move the individual triangles with the gradient fill staying the same wherever you move it.