This is another pattern that develops as you block it together. And it’s also a pattern that has several ways to draw it – this is how it developed from my inspiration photo of the stonework above another niche tomb in Norwich Cathedral. I removed some of the vertical lines to create the heart, and simplified other bits to the small flower circle. Zentangle and stone masonry? Perhaps not so much zen with the noise?
This pattern is an adaptation of the wrought iron gates that are at the entrance to St Saviour’s Chapel in Norwich Cathedral. I have added the heart, but otherwise it’s pretty much the same design. I’ve drawn several iterations of the design together – it’s another of those patterns that develop something more when blocked as a group.
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Ok, so may be they don’t look exactly like sardines, but I thought the carrot or dibber shapes were packed in like sardines! This is another pattern based on the ceiling stonework in another of the niche tombs in Norwich Cathedral. As you can see from the inspiration photo below, the pattern can be mirrored along the top horizontal axis. That said, there are lots of ways to break this one apart to get different variations.
It’s been six months since I last sat and designed some tangle patterns… but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about them! I went to visit Norwich Cathedral in May, and took plenty of pictures of the interior patterns ready to work them into step-by-step tangle patterns. Here’s the first – lots of teardrops, with mirrored Ss in step 3. There’ll be another next week. I think it will go well with Liberty. The carving was on the ceiling in one of the tomb niches on the side of the nave:
