Crete, Chartres and the English turf maze
Labyrinths & Mazes
One path with no choices, or many paths with one answer.
- Motifsclassical seven-circuit · Chartres eleven-circuit · orthogonal maze · turf spiral
- Line weightintermediate
- Available onprints · books · digital · home
The story
Where Labyrinths & Mazes comes from
A labyrinth and a maze are not the same thing, and the difference is the whole point of this family. A labyrinth has one path: it folds back on itself many times but you cannot get lost in it, and walking one is a meditative act rather than a puzzle — the eleven-circuit labyrinth set into the floor of Chartres cathedral is the famous example. A maze has junctions and dead ends and is solved rather than walked. We draw both, and we label which is which, because a puzzle book that calls a labyrinth a maze has mis-sold the page. Every maze we publish has been machine-checked to have exactly one solution.
Samples
Four from this family
Everything it is on
3 products
In print
The books this family lives in
Merryfold Puzzle & Color
Labyrinths & Mazes
104 pages
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