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Design families

A family is a motif with a history, drawn to a consistent line weight. We do not publish one-off designs — everything we make belongs to one of these ten, which is why a pattern you like on a tee can be found on a pillow cover, a phone case and the book it was drawn for.

Kolam & Rangoli

Dot grids and single unbroken lines, drawn on doorsteps before sunrise.

Tamil Nadu and South India · 6 products

Geometric Mandala

Radial symmetry built from a compass and a straight edge, not from a filter.

Pan-Asian devotional geometry · 4 products

Girih

Five tiles, one strapwork, a thousand years of Persian and Timurid walls.

Persia, Anatolia and Central Asia · 4 products

Celtic Knot

One band, no ends, crossing over and under in strict alternation.

Ireland, Scotland and Northumbria · 1 product

Blackwork

Dense fills, hard edges, and the confidence of solid black.

Contemporary tattoo and Elizabethan embroidery · 3 products

Celestial

Moon phases, star charts and the instruments people used to read them.

European and Islamic astronomical illustration · 5 products

Haeckel Organic

Radiolaria, medusae and diatoms, drawn the way a microscope shows them.

Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1899–1904) · 2 products

Botanical Line

Single-weight plant drawing, the way a field notebook does it.

European botanical illustration · 5 products

Labyrinths & Mazes

One path with no choices, or many paths with one answer.

Crete, Chartres and the English turf maze · 3 products

Bold & Easy Patterns

Thick lines, big fields, nothing smaller than a marker tip.

Merryfold Studio · 4 products