Spiral Vortex

A Monthly Pattern | April 2025

Paint spiralling geometric patterns with me!

This month I’ve been inspired by vintage pattern books again. You can find my inspiration on the internet archive and it appears to be a pattern from Ravenna Italy published in a german book by Friedrich Hessemer in 1842. Though a search for Ravenna brings up lots of photos of beautiful mosaics I haven’t been able to pinpoint these particular ones.

There are two circular motifs on the inspiration page and in the video I show how to construct both of them, though I only complete the second design in watercolour in the video.

This was a pattern that featured in my Ko-fi membership from April 2025.

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