Crusade is a tangle pattern from graphic designer and CZT Wayne Harlow of Colton, CA and it’s his first on the site.
“This tangle is an example of a grid pattern ‘seed’ which grows into a striking image when repeated — especially when each seed is rotated 90 degrees in relation to the one adjacent. Like so many tangles, the inspiration for this was quite simple. I saw a towel that had something very similar on it but the pattern was accomplished with multiple levels of pile. The drawn pattern looks very different from the towel but makes a great tangle nonetheless.”
Crusade‘s grid seed is easy to draw although I found you do have to be mindful of the length of each stroke and your spacing. And putting the seeds together into a larger pattern can be a bit on the complicated side as your brain keeps up with which way you’ve turned each one. But I figured you’ve got a whole long weekend to work with it! My second example here on the right uses four of the Crusade seeds as Wayne demonstrates below. As you can see, shading adds the 3D punch of this tangle.
As for the name of the tangle, Wayne writes that his wife thought its geometric nature “reminded her of middle eastern or Moroccan designs and each ‘seed’ sort of has a shield look to me. All that made me think of the crusades.
I do designs for Dreamweaver Stencils and was exposed to Zentangle® when I was asked to decorate a stenciled card with some Zentangle patterns. At the time I didn’t realize that there were names for patterns and actual methods for constructing them but I enjoyed the project and started investigating further. As is often the case with Zentangle, I was hooked and eventually attended CZT 9 in August 2012.”
Here are Wayne’s step-by-step instructions for drawing Crusade and he included a ZIA featuring his tangle. “The ZIA was done on toned gray sketch paper in my recently acquired Strathmore Art Journal. The shading was done with a regular pencil and the highlights were done with a white Prismacolor.”
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Check out the tag wayneh for more of Wayne’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
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Wow!! This is amazing. Has a beautiful 3D effect once put in a grid. Very innovative, indeed!
Thaank you Wayne, for sharing this pattern.
A cool pattern, aptly named. I think there is something stately about it, too. I also love the gray paper !
Very nice! This one is a must-try.
Wayne, this is an awesome pattern; can’t wait to try it, especially in a Dreamweaver Stencil!
Wayne, I think Crusade is beautiful. I also love the way you display your initials!! I tried it with my own, MN!
Very creative Wayne! Nice to have someone figure this out for us. Thank you for sharing a beautiful Tangle!
Brilliant Tangle, just tried it and it looks great.
Great pattern Wayne
I tried your new tangle. Thank you for sharing it with us all. It looks great when you do it. I found that it needed to be accurate and I like to just draw “eyeballing” it. Anyways, I managed to create some variations by making so many mistakes.
For me the best patterns are the ones that require some thinking to get them right. This is such a pattern. I got so much enjoyment drawing this. Thanks for sharing.
I am also a quilter. When I saw Crusade I immediately saw a great quilt block.
I am just wondering the last step…how to put multiple ones together. I have a hard time visualizing that step. Thank you for all the effort, this Tangle looks amazing
I love the look of this pattern, but it would help to show how to go about the next step to continue in forming the pattern process.
To Adrian and Gloria: if you take time to study each square in the grid, ie. each grid seed, the next step becomes apparent. And of course, practice! It’s fun! 🙂
If you haven’t already read the article about grid seeds, please see this page:
https://tanglepatterns.com/2013/06/how-to-draw-maelstrom.html
Thank you so much, Linda. As a newbie, I just didn’t know where to go next. I’ll give your suggested link a try. I just have to thank you for this wonderful site and all the work you do. Hopefully, one day I will be able to contribute one of my own designs for your site, but for right now I just need lots of practice, practice, practice.
I LOVE TANGLES!!!
Great new design Wayne. And look what the shading does to it, so many looks!! Thanks Linda for your example. Hope Wayne sticks around. LOL Hugs to ALL!
Here it is 2018 and I just became aware of this pattern. It is perfect for me to try, which I will later today! THANK YOU for sharing this!