Marziottangle: Those times when I thought I had a new pattern

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Those times when I thought I had a new pattern

I think this has happened mainly twice.

In my first month of tangling I reached a short phase when I was getting obsessed with Cadent, and all patterns that are based on it. I mean, I still love cadent and all its variations, Harp is one of my go tos for example.

I also wanted to find some new patterns, I just had done Saltz but wanted something more.

And here I came with an idea alternating the huggins and the cadent curves that look like roof tiles.

On a table of a Brasilian bar probably, with a caipirinha in my glass. :D

Yumemi, Funls, Zenwheel, Paradox..June 2025

I liked the pattern, so I had to try it also on my normal sketchbook.

Funls, Flux.June 2025

And try it again. (I added a bit of color last week, when I got my charcoal pencils).

Funls. June 2025

And in one of my tea bag envelopes.

Funls, Lilypads, Tripoli, Turtra. June 2025

I have been looking around and in the end I found out that the pattern was already existing. Possibly I thought it was a base for Viking, then I found Funls.

I did my first deconstruction even if I knew it was a variation. I also found a name and everything. But I indeed think it is not a pattern of its own.

And this was Groof Story.

Then there was the other one. I normally drew some patterns on my page, copying them.

Fluxfan, Tetralix, Scara, Lazy Noom. June 2025

I repeated the pattern on my backpack-sketchbook. I think it was out of the Gedächtniskirche, and in the cinema there (Zoopalast) there was the premiere of Jurassic World (in Germany maybe).

Everybody was screaming Scarlett like crazy, but I could not see her.

Akebia, Flux, Side-Winder, Scara. June 2025

And then, around the beginning of August, I was looking for the name of the flower/star pattern in the drawing with watercolors. I have also asked around in several Facebook groups. They suggested Fengle and Spoken Huggins, which looks a bit similar but are not that. For me it looks like a reversed harp, where you draw the petal behind the long part of it instead that in front. Look look look, I could not find the pattern in my small pattern sketchbook, so I got convinced it was a pattern of mine.

I did the usual brainstorming

Scara. August 2025

And the deconstruction. The name Harpins came from Harp and Huggins, but this was pretty clear, right?

Scara. August 2025

And soon after, while keeping as usual my eyes wide open, I found out it was Scara.

Even if it's not a pattern of mine, but I like my interpretation of it.

Fun fact. Also this pattern is based on connecting dots with Cadent and Huggin lines.

What I learned? Asking people in a Zentangle group (or three) to recognize patterns is almost as effective as asking it to chatgpt. Which I obviously did, Or at least tried, apparently the upload button did not work that day.

Zentangle Original Patterns

Other Patterns

Akebia, Gloria Barocio, CZT

Fluxfan, Christiane Musiol CZT

Funls, Margaret Bremner, CZT

Lilypads, Margaret Bremner, CZT

Scara, Midori Furuhashi, CZT

Side-Winder, Laurie Patterson, CZT