How to draw VILBERT

German CZT Sabrina Stein starts off our tangling week with her pretty Vilbert tangle, and it’s her first on the site.

Vilbert is a ribbon-style tangle inspired by a tapestry Sabrina observed while on a trip to the Victoria and Albert museum — “the world’s leading museum of art and design” — in London.

Sabrina shares several gorgeous Zentangle® tiles featuring her tangle while introducing herself and reminding us of one of the most important principles of the Zentangle Method™:

I am from Berlin, Germany, a CZT 18 and I teach Zentangle since 2015 with growing passion.

 In my professional life I manage projects and this is much about numbers, facts, political acting and reaching the target at the right time with nearly perfect results. This perfection became a part of my private life. I am a very structured and well-planned person.

So it was a treasure to me to find the Zentangle Method and the first principle was “no mistakes“. How wonderful to do things without a target and step by step. The “no mistakes“ philosophy attracted me from the first second, and I was in love with the uncountable lot of of patterns from the real beginning.

I managed myself to take a part of this philosophy in my private life and as well in my professional life: It’s not about being perfect, it is better to go mindful steps.

This pattern “Vilbert“ I found in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Great Britain.

I spent a few days there for my own with no plans. I flew through the days enjoying every step and looking where the the next hour will take me. This lead me to V&A and there I found a tapestry with a pattern like this.

I nearly forgot it under the wonderful impressions in this wonderful location but being in my hotel I found a photograph of it and deconstructed it in several ways. Of course I had my tangle equipment with me and so I spent half the night tangling and playing with it.

I came back home happy to be with the best husband in the world again and full of wonderful memories and my new tangle – Vilbert.

Sabrina illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Vilbert below and in her monotangle featuring her tangle she shows some easy ways to embellish it. For the German-speaking tanglers in the community, Sabrina posted about her tangle here on her blog.

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Sabrina’s last Zendala reminds me of lovely old fashioned doilies, the shading in the center adds a nice depth effect …

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