I often tell my students that although I am teaching them how to draw tangles a specific way, their tangles may not look like mine. And that is not only okay, it’s great. It’s great because tangling is as individual as handwriting. With handwriting, some people may prefer script while others only use block print. Some people put years of practice into calligraphy. It’s all a personal preference.

How Tangles are Like Letter Forming

1. We are not born knowing how to write or tangle.
2. Practice makes your work better.
3. It gets easy the more you do it.
4. Learning the “proper” way is a good way to start.
5. Breaking the “rules” can create beautiful forms.

An Example

In this class, I first taught them how to do the tangles, with shading variations, then let them choose how to put those into their tiles themselves. Here are some of the different ideas they came up with! Awesome!