Blue Purple Truchet Pattern - 18 May 2025

What is a Truchet?

So I came across a pattern that (somehow!) I had not seen before - or at least, not enough to really know it - called a ‘Truchet Tile’. See the Wikipedia page for details.

The basic tile is square, but there is a variant on a hexagon that I used here. Do not worry, the square one comes in later this month (Truchet month, this month). I started with the hexagon one, using various inks as always.

Partly done hexagonal Truchet tile

This was half-way through and (sadly) probably looks best at this point - or, at least, clearest. Various shades of green, then a blue wash, then red. It looks very coraline here, which was the plan.

Hidden maze

What I wanted, however, was a subtle underlying pattern. So again I put layers of varnish and blue ink on top, then red …

Final hexagonal Truchet tile

Ehhhhh. So it is more interesting in some ways, and the blue has tied the piece together but also drowned the detail. Definitely one that looks better in-person than my rubbish cameraphone pictures. Oh well.

If only I made a bigger version (*foreshadowing intensifies*).