Printemps is an original Zentangle® tangle introduced by Maria Thomas.
Spring(s)! What a fun name for a fun tangle pattern. This one took me a lot of practice and at long last I’ve replaced my first attempt. Printemps is one of the first tangles to appear on the site when I launched it in May 2010. And of course Printemps is French for Spring.
CZT® Suzanne McNeill gives us her illustrated instructions and her version of Printemps below. UPDATE: Early in the Summer of 2014 Suzanne McNeill’s blog was removed and all the posts and images were lost. The site is being reconstructed as much as possible but the links will no longer be the same. Many of her patterns on TanglePatterns can quite easily be figured out. For those that might be a little more difficult, Suzanne has graciously given me permission to post her copyright-protected images on TanglePatterns for your convenience.
Image © DESIGN ORIGINALS by Suzanne McNeill and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Please feel free to refer to the step outs to recreate this tangle in your Zentangles and ZIAs, or link back to this page. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to these images and they should not be pinned, reproduced or republished. Thank you for respecting these rights.
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UPDATE December 11, 2017 – Project Pack #2. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition, Maria Thomas tangles a variation of Printemps (at 8:24).
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UPDATE September 5, 2018 – CZT Margaret Bremner includes Printemps in her “And then some” series demonstrating a few ways you can experiment with this Zentangle-original tangle.
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UPDATE December 9, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, Rick begins this Day 7 video demonstrating how to tangle Printemps.
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UPDATE April 2019 – Project Pack #05. In Day 8’s video, Maria demonstrates how to tangle “weighted Printemps“, beginning at 9:23.
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UPDATE March 3, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, CZT Julie Willand tangles Printemps, Bunzo and Knightsbridge using the new Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll Pens on a prestrung Zendala tile.
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UPDATE March 4, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, with Rick keeping her company, Maria tangles Well, Mooka, Tripoli, a “Kite on a String” motif, Printemps, Gourdgeous, and Fife on several different black prestrung Zendala tiles:
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UPDATE July 22, 2020 – Project Pack #10. As part of The Legend of Zentangle project pack series, Julie Willand demonstrates how to tangle Crazy Printemps.
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Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle®-original tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
PS – On the right is my newbie attempt. {blush}
Related Links
- Linda's List of Zentangle-Original Patterns — here is the complete list of original tangles (aka "official tangles") created and introduced by founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, including those not published online. If you are new to the Zentangle Method I highly recommend learning a few of the published Zentangle classics first.
- A pattern is not always a tangle — here's what makes a tangle.
- Un motif n’est pas toujours un tangle — Qu’est-ce qu’un tangle ?
- Un diseño no es siempre un tangle — ¿Qué es un tangle?
- How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
- Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form
- For lots of great FREE tutorials on TanglePatterns, click on the TUTORIALS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page
- Strings! Have we got STRINGS! Click on the STRINGS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page for 250 different (free) Zentangle-starters. More than enough for any lifetime!
- What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals
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May 31, 2010 | 
More like this: 
Sandy Steen Bartholomew also has a version of steps for Printemps here:
http://beezinthebelfry.blogspot.ca/2009/08/tangle-of-week-printemps.html
Unfortunately the link on this page to Suzanne McNeill’s blog (and therefore the link in your book Tanglepatterns Beginners Guide to Zentangle) does not work. The page no longer exists.
Is there any chance of doing a step-out on this website??? Pleeeeeeze?
The steps have been added to this page, please read the explanation for the links to Suzanne McNeill’s blog not working. Also note these steps are for a variation of the Zentangle®-original Printemps, as explained in the steps image.