How to draw SPIRO

By Linda Farmer, CZT ~ April 7th, 2014

Welcome back from the weekend tangle fans. Here’s another cool tangle pattern from West Virginia’s Beth Snoderly.

“This pattern actually came from an old leather belt I remembered as a child. I loved it. It was cut into strips and twisted in a manner that made it look like a spirograph. Thus the name.”

“Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.” — from Wikipedia.

I’m sure many of us remember hours of fun with this creative toy and I was delighted to discover it’s still available today.

Spirograph, image courtesy of Wikipedia

Although Beth’s Spiro tangle is based on a grid, the elements of the grid are more rectangular rather than the usual square shape and that gives you space to create the curved lines within. In addition to the simple but intricate web of lines created in Beth’s steps, Spiro can be filled in many different ways that create interesting patterns within the web.

Here Beth illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Spiro.

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Check out the tag beths for more of Beth’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.

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