This little beauty is based on ceramic tiles from Susa. I don’t know where that is either… Looks great across large areas, and repeats well.

Tomorrow’s tangle pattern, 4 of 14: ‘Turkoman’.

 Well here’s a fabulous pattern! It’s all about the negative space as well as the drawn areas, and if you get it right, it looks like a 3D shaded lattice. It’s based on a Persian stucco design from 13th or 14th century. A different take on ‘Cubine’.

And tomorrow, 3 of 14: ‘Susa’.

 This is the first of a series of patterns based on Persian designs that I have found in a fabulous book by Ali Dowlatshahi ‘Persian Designs and Motifs for artists and craftsmen’, a Dover Publications sourcebook from 1979. Thank goodness for the college library 🙂

This one is similar to several other ‘eye’ type patterns out there, but I think the steps are unique. I’m sure someone will let me know if they are not!

Tomorrow, 2 of 14: ‘Persian Lattice’.

To make up for the fact I didn’t manage to create any patterns during September, I have fourteen new patterns for release through October. Starting tomorrow, there’s a fortnight of tangle goodness coming your way! Find your Arab coffee cups and sheesha pipes – we’re going Persian 🙂

Bank Holiday Special Part Two: a great border pattern, but also will fill in gaps nicely. Several ways of drawing this (as normal) but this is the way it happened when I was experimenting. I think the shading helps develop depth and form.

A Bank Holiday Weekend Special – two new tangle patterns, one today and one tomorrow. Today’s is prone to mistakes, as it’s easy to lose track of which kite is up/down and left/right. If the vertical arrows meet, then the horizontal ones don’t and vice versa. I did come up with several variations when drawing out the steps by filling in the gaps with concave diamonds and ovals using the crosses as guidelines.

Tomorrow’s tangle goodness: ‘Zippa’.

Day Seven: another Mehndi inspired pattern, this flower shape reminded me of the best waterlilies. Remind me to show you how to make 3D versions out of punched paper… Couple of guidelines for this: it doesn’t matter how many scollops you have in the outer border and the lines in step 5 curve to meet the base of the line starting two scollops before to make the coloured in segment.

That wraps up this week’s daily tangles, hope you’ve enjoyed them.

Day Six: another Mehndi design, this complex seeming pattern is ideal for a tangle centrepiece. The pattern is essentially repeated variations on a border pattern built into overlapping shapes, as are many Mehndi patterns.

Tomorrow’s final instalment for this week’s daily doses: ‘Waterlily’.

Day Five: this is another design from the Mehndi tradition, giving lots of opportunity to fill space and abandon geometry. A couple of guidelines: three branches per flower coming from the same spot – they are meant to whorl round, but not always easy to do… The leaves occur on just one side of each branch.

Tomorrow’s concentric centrepiece: ‘Walled Garden’.