Dawn's Designs

Tessellations

See also Celtic Knotwork

Tessellations are:

Repeating designs which create new patterns.

Example of the history of one of my tessellations:

simple angle turned into simple angle repeated and rotated 4 times making a tile

turned into...

tile repeated forming a tessellated design

turned into...

colored tessellation

Here are some more examples of tessellations I have created. They work well as coloring sheets, or they could be used to design quilts.

different tessellation

tessellation in form of a cross

For help in learning how to draw your own tessellations I recommend
Designing Tessellations: the secret of interlocking patters by Jinny Beyer
and:

Totally Tessellated one of the sites I used to study tessellations early on, and which I lost track of for a long time and was happy to rediscover.

And of course no page on the art of Tessellations would be complete without a link to The official Escher website page. His work continues to inspire me.