Architectural Motifs
Cornices, plasterwork, ironwork, stair details, tiles and carved edges translated into repeatable forms.
Pattern Studies
Motif, repeat, colour and scale.
Pattern Studies is a place for developing visual research: architectural details, archive prints, decorative arts and natural forms translated into motif, repeat, colour and scale. Some studies may one day become fabric, wallpaper or printed pieces, but for now this is where the research gathers shape.
Research areas
Studies in progress.
This page is deliberately unfinished in feeling: a place for tests, fragments, observations and formal experiments rather than a finished pattern portfolio.
Archive Print Studies
Looking at old textiles, printed papers, book plates and decorative fragments for proportion and rhythm.
Nature and Ornament
Leaves, stems, flowers and natural silhouettes studied without becoming decorative in a way that overwhelms the structure of the design.
Colourways
Testing oxblood, olive, ochre, faded blue and old paper tones across scale and ground colour.
Repeats in Progress
Motifs moved from observation into repeat: half-drop, stripe, border, spot and panel studies.
Scale Tests
What changes when a motif moves from lampshade to cushion, wall, paper, fabric or printed object.
Not a portfolio, yet
A research shelf, still taking shape.
Pattern is part of Studio Elwick because looking closely at rooms often leads back to repeat, border, scale and motif. This section gives that research somewhere to live without turning the whole site into a surface pattern portfolio.
For collaborations, pattern studies could support visual reference research, colour direction, maker projects or early-stage product thinking.
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