Reference Catalog - Part 4

I have quite some fun preparing this reference sketchbook. I wonder if it will be useful for other people. I often have the feeling that my efforts to share my passion for tangling and to engage others work less than I would like... but that's life! I will find the way and will try to enjoy the process, most of all.

This page is probably not the most interesting, Hamadox is based on Hamail (and Paradox) and so everything gets a bit repetitive, and my Suan is a pattern that likes to hide in-between other patterns!

Hamadox, Suan, Hamail, Ciottoli

I love all patterns here, not used to see them together, but it is what I like of this catalog. Sometimes I mix patterns I would not mix together!

Lilypad, Harp, Icanthis, Tipple

Here a collection of patterns of mine! You can see my chop close to the pattern names!

Ciottoli, MoinMoin, Dorn

I like this page, how I put some pieces of 'Nzeppel here and there.

'Nzeppel, Bamboline, Castelli

A page with organic tangles, and I am the biggest advocate of organic patterns! 

Berberis, Mycena, Tetralix.

My Patterns

Castelli

Ciottoli

Dorn

MoinMoin

Suan

Zentangle Original Patterns

'Nzeppel

Icanthis

Tipple

Other Patterns

Bamboline

Berberis

Hamadox

Hamail

Harp

Lilypad

Mycena

Tetralix

Reference Catalog - Part 3

I managed to tangle another five pages of the catalog, so here I am back again!

If any of you want some patterns that are not super complicated to be added here, let me know! Since I plan to use this catalog when tangling with other people, and often many of them are not experienced tangler.

I loved here the idea of drawing fescu on top of the bricks/thread Latela.

Latela, Fescu, Toodles.

Another thread pattern, thinking at one of the people that attended one of my tangling meetings. Here I like most the cross hatching behind bublz.

LoopLopp, Hollibaugh, Bublz.

I need some courage to leave so much space untangled. I am used to tangle every millimiter!

Trelina, Shattuck, Nanalee.

Here I love the sunlight leaves, how I put them together.

Sampson, Rosalyn, Sunlight

And here I was surprised how both Fluxfan and Side-Winder, two fillers in my eyes, both found a space in the page!

Fluxfan, Side-Winder, Laflor

My Patterns

Latela

Zentangle Original Patterns

Fescu

Hollibaugh

Sampson

Shattuck

Toodles

Other Patterns

Bublz

Fluxfan

Laflor

LoopLopp

Nanalee

Rosalyn

Side-Winder

Sunlight

Trelina

Reference Catalog - Part 2

Hi there! 

I will try to upload the catalog here every 5 pages. I know, patterns are inno particular order, I will sort them alphabetically in an index when one sketchbook is done. I don't need all examples, it's enough to have the small bijou tiles with the names to do it, and this will happen faster. Especially if people here, in my Facebook group or anywhere tell me about patterns that they would like to be there.

You will also find all posts about this catalog looking for the "reference" label.

Dark Busters, Zante, Mrth.

Pokeroot, Pokeleaf, Xrose

Yumemi, Meer, Circus

Lenche, W2, Ennies

Wadical, Hypnotic, Scena

My Patterns

Xrose

Zentangle Original Patterns

Ennies

Meer

Mrth

Pokeleaf

Pokeroot

Scena

Wadical

W2

Other Patterns

Circus

Dark Busters

Hypnotic

Lenche

Yumemi

Zante

Reference Catalog - Part 1

Yesterday I had another meeting to tangle with other people here in Berlin.
To have some material for reference for the people coming around (since usually everybody there is new or relative new to the Zentangle method) I started preparing a kind of catalog, starting with easy patterns and going on with the patterns I tangled over the day.
Three bijou tiles on the left with monotangles and an example on the right.
I did not put the step out, since the objective was to show how patterns look like, for others to check, then I am more than happy to show how to draw them. The step out would take space and I wanted to have a decent amount of patterns together in a small space.

It did not work super well, but I had very few patterns in yesterday and I was updating the sketchbook with new bijou sized monotangles during the meeting. I have added some examples later.

Do you think it could be useful for people new to Zentangle to decide what to draw?

I would indeed like to have something more interactive instead of lecturing and doing exactly the patterns I think in the way I think in advance. But it is also very difficult to engage people.

Mom said many of the patterns in my examples on the right look like graphics from the sixties. I think I will take it as a compliment. :)

Bales, Florz, Printemps, Tipple

Tipple, Jetties, Knightsbridge, Meer, Sez, Circus, Printemps

Huggins, Cadent, Paradox, Wadical

Crescent Moon, Sez, Flux

Tripoli, Box Spirals, Corfo

My Patterns

Corfo

Zentangle Original Patterns

Bales

Cadent

Circus

Crescent Moon

Florz

Flux

Huggins

Jetties

Knightsbridge

Meer

Paradox

Printemps

Sez

Tipple

Tripoli

Wadical

Other Patterns

Box Spirals

Coree, Corflor, Corfo - one technique, three patterns

Today it is the turn to post three patterns together.

Cor comes from corinthian, like the Greek columns. I am not sure the technique in use with this patterns is indeed the one from these columns, but I liked to start all of them in a common way, and Cor is always a nice beginning. Like heart!
Coree stands for cori-ntian, Corflor, for cor-flower, Cor-fo for cor-leaf (foglia is leaf in Italian).

The same pattern is already part of several patterns, like Starfish-Flowerbarrel.

Coree, Fescu, Tipple, Corflor, Negtip, Printemps, Bales, Corfo, Sez, Marasu, Pokeleaf, Shattuck. 20-21 September 2025

Here you can find both Coree and Corflor.

Scena, Corflor, Printemps, Coree 8 December 2025

Lately I draw all the time Corfo. So I will not post here all the times I tangled it. :) But I just linked the pattern label, so you can click it and see it all over my blog.

Borgoid, Tipple, Agru, Printemps, Corfo, Cezta. 26 December 2025

Vortemps, Corfo. 26 December 2025

Mrth, Corfo, Toodles, Tipple. 6 January 2026

Printemps, Ciottoli, Corfo. 19 December 2025

Flux, Printemps, Corfo, Tipple, Cezta. 9 December 2025

Cezta, Printemps, Corfo, Circus. 13 January 2026

Corfo, Zagzig. 8 January 2026

My Patterns

Agru

Bales

Borgoid

Cezta

Ciottoli

Coree

Corflor

Corfo

Negtip

Vortemps

Zagzig

Zentangle Original Patterns

Fescu

Flux

Marasu

Mrth

Pokeleaf

Printemps

Scena

Sez

Shattuck

Tipple

Toodles

Other Patterns

Circus

Angefi - a squared flower

I am drawing lately and leaving this blog alone. So bad from my side. I probably have material for 20 posts or so, and every day, of course, there is something new. I will probably have to go back to the habit to post twice a day, but probably after the CZT seminar, prior that I would rather draw more than post twice a day! :)

Here we have another pattern. A pretty easy one, but that can be filled with anything, and that is what makes it nice. The name... probably comes from angle and... I do not remember! Let me go and check.

Fi stands for flower, the other name I was considering was Hanakoku (in Japanese one of the meanings of hana is flower and one of koku must be angle, but I am not 100% sure).

I like to draw it with an even number of polygons, and apart from the first two or three, I don't mind if a polygon has more sides of the previous ones, the only good thing is that it is not an aura of the previous one. But you do you, and you can aura one polygon as well!

You can see it also filled with ribbons.

Angefi, Sharpei, Wadical, Printemps, Xrose, Srose, Negtip, Crescent Moon, Ciottoli, Inapod. 18 December 2025

 And we have also a tea bag envelope, where I first tangled the pattern.

Angefi. 28 November 2025.

My Patterns

Angefi

Ciottoli

Negtip

Sharpei

Srose

Xrose

Zentangle Original Patterns

Crescent Moon

Printemps

Wadical

Other Patterns

Inapod

Flird - when you use birds as petals

I still have tea bag envelopes, but I stored them away and my new pattern sketchbook was closer, so... let's restart with new patterns. I have eight in this book, and several to add, as usual. I am too fast to create new patterns, it is hard to keep up with it!

Today there is Flird. Another flower. It looks like many  others, but different I think. In case you know this pattern is already out, let me know, I do not want to appropriate any, but on the other side how can you know all existing patterns if there is no place where all are collected and archived so that you can easily find if one is already there?
One thing that I find funny is that the petal shape looks a bit like a bird. Like Zaungast, that I love! And we will have soon another pattern of mine with the same shape. And the name merges flower and bird.

Flird, Sampson, Tipple, Pokeleaf, Printemps, Ahh. 14 December 2025

 I did not draw it very often. I should!

Flird, Tipple. 15 December 2025

My Patterns

Flird

Zentangle Original Patterns

Ahh

Pokeleaf

Printemps

Sampson

Tipple

Bookmarks around the year change

I like to give away bookmarks. I like to draw them while people around me are talking. I am used to stay on my own at parties and meetings, if I draw I can participate any time if a conversation is interesting, but if no conversation catches my ear I must not fake any interest! :D

I am used to zone out anyway. I give massages, I dance while nobody does, and things of the kind.

So here are the last bookmarks (and a special guest). I have given them to friends and mom.
Do you have a favourite one?

Borgoid, Tipple, Agru, Printemps, Corfo, Cezta. 26 December 2025

Vortemps, Corfo. 26 December 2025

Uaso, Manair, Printemps, Surround Flowr. 6 January 2026

Mrth, Corfo, Toodles, Tipple. 6 January 2026

Deepsake, Flux, Printemps, Negtip. 6 January 2026

Den Long, Printemps, Tipple, Negtip. 7 January 2026

I am wondering if I should make a pattern out of this flowery tangle, and think that I probably should.

Corfo, Zagzig. 8 January 2026

Printemps, Trelina, Uaso, Tipple, Kikiriki, Keena. 18 January 2025

This is not a bookmark, but mom loves my tangles in bigger formats, so I left her some on a big piece of paper. I think an A4 or a bit smaller.

Half Noom, Kaspah, Flux, Ciottoli, Suan, Dua, Marball, Printemps, Keena, Flost, Crescent Moon, KoiKoi, Cippociappo, Mrth, Wadical. 8 January 2026

Sorry, I will add only my patterns as labels since there are too many.

My Patterns

Agru

Borgoid

Cezta

Ciottoli

Cippociappo

Corfo

Den Long

Flost

Half Noom

Kaspah

Keena

Kikiriki

KoiKoi

Marball

Negtip

Suan

Uaso

Vortemps

Zagzig

Zentangle Original Patterns

Crescent Moon

Flux

Mrth

Printemps

Tipple

Toodles

Wadical

Other Patterns

Dua

Keepsake

Manair

Surround Flowr

Trelina

Tea Bag Envelopes - Part 40

And here we are, with the tea bag envelopes from 2026. Seven months of tangling. :) 

I like to tangle this bird pattern. :)

Uaso, Marasu, Wadical. 12 January 2026

Uaso, Printemps, Sez. 12 January 2026

Printemps. 12 January 2026

Crescent Moon, Hosopli, Betweed, Pokeroot, Tipple, Flux, Trelina, Sampson. 12 January 2026

Cezta, Printemps, Corfo, Circus. 13 January 2026

Uaso, Silk Pods, Mrth, Doodah, Crescent Moon, Tritri. 13 January 2026

Here there is an S ribbon that recalls many of the one I have already created. I wonder if I should add this one as well. I will see if I feel like tangling it.

Toodles, Flux, Cadent, Paradox, Nanalee. 13 January 2026

My Patterns

Cezta

Corfo

Hosopli

Silk Pods

Tritri

Uaso

Zentangle Original Patterns

Betweed

Cadent

Crescent Moon

Doodah

Flux

Marasu

Mrth

Paradox

Pokeroot

Printemps

Sampson

Sez

Tipple

Toodles

Wadical

Other Patterns

Circus

Nanalee

Trelina

Tea Bag Envelopes - Part 39

And here are the last tea bag envelopes from last year. The next time I will post some they are going to be from this year.

Dicso, Fronde, Printemps, Negtip, Tipple. 17 December 2025

Vortemps, Printemps, Tipple, Flux. 17 December 2025

I like these weird patterns that remind some animals but are also different. This one looks a lot like Keena, and follows the same logic.

Kikiriki. 17 December 2025

Borgoid, Fronde, Manair. 17 December 2025

Here I was using again the branch technique. I should probably do a step out for the theory behind it... or simply explain it with a pattern or two based on it.

Printemps, Ciottoli, Corfo. 19 December 2025

Dark Busters, Yumemi, Corfo, Fescu, Ole-Ole. 19 December 2025

Frondula, Fronde. 19 December 2025

This is actually an unfinished tangle, but I put it away like this without touching it, and it looks nice also like this. I have the tendency to overfill everything, and to have some empty space can be nice from time to time.

Manair, Printemps, Corfo, Fescu. 19 December 2025

My Patterns

Borgoid

Ciottoli

Corfo

Fronde

Frondula

Kikiriki

Negtip

Vortemps

Zentangle Original Patterns

Fescu

Flux

Printemps

Tipple

Other Patterns

Dark Busters

Dicso

Manair

Ole-Ole

Yumemi