Inside the Book: Tudor Floral Patterns

Our 13th illustration in Colouring History: Tudor Queens and Consorts features a stunning Tudor-inspired floral pattern. These flowers are based on embroidery work which dates back to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

For this piece, I began with a measured approach to creating a continuous pattern. I then traced my rough pen drawing and scanned it into Photoshop, copying and pasting to create a seamless horizontal drawing, stacked in an interlocking vertical pattern.