Tile patterns - William De Morgan and one from the 16th Century - README

Print and colour in some nice tile patterns from public domain art. Available in A4 and US letter size from the external link.

The four floral patterns in the files are taken from public domain photographs of ceramic tiles (which are already in the public domain). The first three are by William De Morgan (19th Century) and the bottom right one is a 16th Century tile.

A4 and US PDFs here: https://jodiepedia.wordpress.com/2022/12/30/four-floral-tile-patterns-to-colour-in-free-printable-to-download-a4-and-us-letter-size/

Original images of Tiles 1-3 can be found here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ceramic_tiles_by_William_De_Morgan and 2 and 3 come from different areas of the same “LACMA” panel.

Tile 4 (second half 16th century, Islamic art) came from https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453346

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I created these line drawings on a MacBook Pro by importing a copy of the photo of a tile into Inkscape and halving the opacity. Added a layer on top then traced over the design using the Pen tool in Bspline mode. Zoomed in to neaten things up and saved as a PNG for importing into Word, saved here as PDF. 

Short video of basic process of using Bspline: https://twitter.com/JoBrodie/status/1607365387863166978

Learned: that the backspace key will let you delete one or more points in your path as you're drawing it ('Esc' will clear the currently-being-drawn path). You can break off and return to a line later, picking up from the last node, by selecting the line, clicking on the node tool (which brings up all the nodes in that path), then clicking on the Pen tool which silences all the nodes except the ones at either end - click on the one you want to continue the path.