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RANDOM SELECTOR

Use this Random Tangle Selector with your TanglePatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE to help you select tangles. See Pages 7 and 9 of the Guide for instructions. You can also use this to select random Strings: simply pop in any number in the range of 1 to 250.

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TanglePatterns String 157

TanglePatterns String 157. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. All rights reserved.

This String is shared by CZT Jane Eileen Malone for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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How to draw 4MOM

Zentangle pattern: 4Mom. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. ALL RIGHTSa RESERVED. You may use this image for your personal non-commercial reference only. The unauthorized pinning, reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.

Links to online instructions for drawing CZT® Jane Eileen Malone’s Zentangle® pattern: 4MOM.

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How to draw FLAIR

Zentangle pattern: Flair. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. ALL RIGHTSa RESERVED. You may use this image for your personal non-commercial reference only. The unauthorized pinning, reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.

Online instructions for drawing Beth Snoderly’s Zentangle® pattern: Flair.

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TanglePatterns String 156

TanglePatterns String 156. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. All rights reserved.

This String is shared by CZT Bunny Wright for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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Tangle Refresher 102 – Featuring a must-read exploration of Zentangle’s Bijouisms …

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure! Featuring a must-read exploration of Zentangle’s Bijouisms …

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TanglePatterns String 155

This String is shared by tangler Cat Trask for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 154

TanglePatterns String 154

This String is shared by CZT Nancy Newlin for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 153

TanglePatterns String 153

This String is shared by tangler Beth Snoderly for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 152

TanglePatterns String 152

This String is shared by tangler Barbara Finwall for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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How to draw CLOUDFALL

Zentangle pattern: Cloudfall

Links to online instructions for drawing Lily Moon’s Zentangle® pattern: Cloudfall.

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TanglePatterns String 151

TanglePatterns String 151

This String is shared by tangler Cherie Hartwick for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns STRINGS GUIDE, Volume 3 now available!

TanglePatterns.com STRINGS GUIDE, Volume 3: Strings 101-150

The third volume of the “TanglePatterns STRINGS GUIDE” series containing Strings 101-150 is now available to download. Visit the STORE > E-BOOKS page and support the site by getting your copy today!

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TanglePatterns String 150

TanglePatterns String 150

This String is shared by CZT Adele Bruno for your creative enjoyment. Also Volume 3 of “TanglePatterns.com STRING GUIDE (Strings 101-150)” is now available for download in the Store, support the site and get your copy now! You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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STORIES: Zentangle® helps tangler find confidence and have fun drawing

Sunflower tranquility and hope

In this occasional series on TanglePatterns, readers describe in their own words how Zentangle® has changed their lives. Tangler Bobbie H. describes how it has helped her find confidence and rediscover fun of drawing. She also shares three lovely examples of her latest Zentangle art.

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TanglePatterns String 149

This String is shared by tangler Grace McIntyre for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 148

This String is shared by tangler Barbara Finwall for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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How to draw RYSA

Zentangle pattern: Rysa. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may use this image for your personal non-commercial reference only. The unauthorized pinning, reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.

Online instructions for drawing Beth Snoderly’s Zentangle® pattern: Rysa.

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TanglePatterns String 147

TanglePatterns-String-147

This String is shared by tangler Judiellen Palumbo for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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Tangle Refresher 98

Buried Treasure! And how to switch back and forth easily between the Mobile and Desktop versions of the site on your mobile device.

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TanglePatterns String 146

TanglePatterns String 146

This String is shared by tangler Lily Moon for your creative enjoyment. For quite some time I’ve noticed many tanglers are making the String the major feature in their Zentangles and that’s all well and good. However the original intent in Zentangle, and the reason strings are done in pencil, is so the string magically melts into the art and it becomes difficult if not impossible to …

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TanglePatterns String 145

This String is shared by tangler Sandra Schubert for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 144

TanglePatterns String 144

This String is shared by CZT Angela Werner for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 143

TanglePatterns String 143

This String is shared by tangler Beth Snoderly for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 142

TanglePatterns String 142

This String is shared by CZT Jane Dickinson for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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How to draw NEIT-LITE

Links to online instructions for drawing Annette Plaga-Lodde’s Zentangle® pattern: Neit-Lite.

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TanglePatterns String 141

TanglePatterns String 141

This String is shared by tangler Judiellen Palumbo for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 140

TanglePatterns String 140

This String is shared by tangler Sabrina Croft for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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How to draw ANTIQUE

Zentangle pattern: Antique

Online instructions for drawing CZT® Kathy Barringer’s Zentangle® pattern: Antique.

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TanglePatterns String 139

TanglePatterns String 139

This String is shared by tangler Barbara Finwall for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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TanglePatterns String 138

TanglePatterns String 138

This String is shared by CZT Lianne Woods for your creative enjoyment. You can help our community’s String resource grow by sending me yours to share. I’m always looking for new strings!

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