Inspiration can be found everywhere. Open your eyes to the world around you and look for the beauty of patterns, designs and symmetry in our natural environment, or the environments we create for ourselves. Take a moment and give the shapes in your day some attention. I am constantly seeing things in a new way, identifying patterns where they may otherwise be passed by, and taking time to enjoy and appreciate.
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Recently some naturally occurring variations in slate tiles caught my eye – and I couldn’ t help but want to make them into a string for daily tiles.
tangles: pepper, patena
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tangles: meer, knase, onamato, jonqal
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SHAPES, PATTERNS AND DESIGN THAT CAUGHT MY EYE
The Cumberland Pencil Museum used calligraphy nibs to create shapes and shadows of light and dark, I love the movement and feeling of flow from the curves.
Using the tangle BB I found a way to capture the motion.
Isolate a single curve in this pattern, and see how it intersects with its neighbors. Is it the inside curve or the outside curve? Is it curving to the left, or to the right? Is the curve going to the flower, or away from it?
Hotel Carpet
There are many different grid tangles, this carpet feels most like Huggins to me, and the floral detail could be Flux.
In the dimly lit bistro – this floor is rarely considered as hungry customers find their way to their favorite table. Can you make out the dominant strokes? A simple black square anchors each line to the others. Connecting the lines with the squares create the illusion of the woven pattern.
Bistro Floor
W2 shares some characteristics of Huggins, but with straight lines instead of curves. It is one of the simplest tangles consisting only of straight lines and squares, yet creates a wonderful woven effect.
