How to draw FINDUS

Yay, it’s Friday and today we welcome back Belgian CZT Ria Matheussen and her lovely Findus tangle.

Ria’s been on hiatus for a little while but lucky us, she’s back! Findus is her 27th tangle on the site.

Ria explains how she “found” Findus,

Years ago, I sent in a few tangles: Nouvart, Horti and later Decoo, all three had a relationship with Art Nouveau/Art Deco my most favorite kind of art and again I searched there for inspiration, hoping to find new tangles.

All of a sudden I saw this beautiful pattern on a door, inspired by Art Nouveau and knew I have found what I was looking for.

I changed a few small details and here it is: Findus.

As you know this kind of art started at the end of the 19th century. In Belgium we say: “fin du siècle” and therefore I like to give this tangle the name Findus!

I’m so glad that I am back in this new Spring, a season that shows us every year again how beautiful change can be!

A new start, a new tangle and new challenges.

Ria illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Findus below where she demonstrates it as a ribbon, in a grid and in a lovely Phi tile ZIA on its own as a focal point.

Findus is really pretty on its own and I have drawn it on a Phi tile together with ‘Nzeppel, Trumpits, the fragment K14 (in a square) and Tink. I colored the open spaces in Tink to give it a bit the illusion of stained glass. That was so much seen in that period.

As a border or a ribbon it can also be used, straight or curled as I did. There I added an extra little square.

In the frame I used Findus in combination with Florz.

Surely people will find more combinations and many ways to color this one…

The grid-based version of Findus Ria shows in her illustration is just a little tricky, you’ll want to look at the detail closely. The vertical grid lines do not go through the middle of the Findus motifs as you’ll note in her steps: by that I mean the rice shapes do not have a stroke through the middle. To tangle it in the grid Ria shows, you must do your grid one row at a time then the row underneath is shifted over, in what is known in the design industry as a brick pattern. For my example I did not “shift” the motifs, I tangled them in a regular grid.

Ribbon, focal, stacked bricks, regular bricks … have fun with this one!

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PS: As one version of Findus is created on a brick grid framework, I’ve added that term to our TANGLES BY TYPE — and wondering what other new tangles might come forth based on this fun type of reticulum (reticula is the plural form). A creative challenge to those so inclined 😉

Check out the tag riam for more of Ria’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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