![]() Trim away this extra space with two inward snips along the main fold lines. At the corners, there will be extra paper. Trim away corner pieces.Fold along all of the scored lines. Do this for the bijou tracing and for its frame.įold along the scored lines. With your favorite paper scoring tool (I use a bamboo skewer), score just outside the pencil lines, going from one edge of the larger tile to the other. ![]() Line up a ruler or other straight edge tool with the drawn lines. Step 3: Re-draw 3/16-ths of an inch away.ĭraw a 3/16-inch frame around the bijou tracing.Īura the bijou outline 3/16-ths of an inch away from the center on all sides. Once the lines are matched, trace the bijou onto the larger tile. It may not be a perfect match, but match as closely as possible. Turn your bijou 45 degrees, and match up the bijou’s diagonal lines to the standard tile’s center lines, and the bijou’s center lines to the larger tile’s diagonals. Align diagonals with center lines as shown trace bijou. Step 2: Line up the two square tiles, then trace. Your tile will resemble a squared round pizza. With a pencil, find and draw the diagonals and centers on the backs of both your “final size” tile and the tile from which you will make the holder. Step 1: Mark the center and diagonal lines. No matter what size holder you need, the procedure is the same. Where the business cards are 2.5 inches square and need the larger Apprentice tile, bijou tiles are only 2 inches square, so a standard 3.5 inch square tile is plenty large to make a holder. Thinking back to a four-piece bijou puzzle I tangled for Valentangle2017 on Facebook, I thought it might be better to create a bijou-sized holder instead of the business card holder. This post caused several people to ask how I made the holder, and I promised to post directions here on my blog. Remember: Anything is possible one stroke at a time.®Įarlier this week, I posted a picture on the Zentangle Mosaic® app of a holder I made out of an Apprentice tile (4.5 inches square) to keep my brand new 2.5-inch square business cards from VistaPrint®. You fill the triangles with patterns or color or texture to produce beautiful effects. The flow of the path or the grouping your pen creates as you tangle suggests an object or design. It can become a lizzard or a flower and many things in between. Tripoli is one of the most versatile Zentangle patterns. Even the butterfly body started out as a triangle which was subsequently filled with color. In this example, although some triangles were later filled with a pattern that resembles the veins found on a leaf, the rest were simply filled with color and texture to resemble petals. It is even OK to slightly “hook” the aura if you are going for a rounded grouping–or just because. The aura became the first side of the next triangle. Each triangle began with an aura of one side of the previous triangle. Shading and color smoothed the edges and points to look more like something Nature would do.Įach “petal” and “leaf” is a pointed triangle, and most of the sides of the triangles are slightly curved–mostly because I prefer a bit of curve over straight lines. So I filled the triangle elements to reflect that. In the example below, the paths and groupings reminded me of a bunch of flowers in a garden. The individual triangles can be filled with anything that seems to fit the path or grouping as well. The wonderful thing about tripoli is that the elements don’t need to be filled at all. However, there is no hard and fast rule consecutive triangles can grow or shrink, and fragments can change from one element to the next. In these tangles, grouped triangles are about the same size and contain the same fragment pattern. The next triangle builds from a line that auras one side of the previous triangle. In the examples shown below, you can see how the tripoli elements build from each other. Usually, when tripoli is tangled, each triangle is filled with a fragment. Below are a few example of simple grid patterns.įragments can be used all sorts of ways, including to fill a shape or to embellish a string. Typically, the triangles are filled with “fragments,” which are patterns used in part to fill elements of a grid pattern. ![]() ![]() Tripoli is not a single triangle element, but a bunch of elements connecting to form free-flowing paths and groupings of triangular shapes. The KTT inspired me to both blog about this versatile pattern as well as to try my hand at something more creative than the mundane way in which I’ve been drawing it. Although i have been tangling with tripoli for quite a while, the video added some new information about tripoli that I didn’t think about before. If you have the Zentangle® Mosaic app, you probably saw this week’s Kitchen Tabe Tangling (KTT) video on how to draw tripoli and embellish the elements. Tripoli may be a place and a fantastic vacation destination, but tripoli is also a Zentangle pattern.
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